Good concept, poorly executed.

A Brilliant Conflict

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I've recently discovered bro' Town on the little-watched, but occasionally indispensable, left-of-center US channel "LinkTV" (channel 375 on DirecTV), and have now watched all of the first season.I'm not a New Zealander, have visited only once for about 3 days, so I am sure I am missing about a third of the jokes and the accents are daunting sometimes. (And the erratic close caption subtitles frequently get things wrong, which is funny in itself.) But there's plenty left over for the non-locals. I find myself laughing out loud at least a dozen times in every episode.It's not surprising that people compare it to South Park, since it involves a gang of quasi-delinquents, but it reminds me more of King of the Hill: the tone is fairly laid back with intermittent bursts of surrealism, like Jeff da Maori's eight dads; the body-painted Australian Aboriginal student inexplicably dropped into this Auckland school; and Pepelo Pepelo's bizarre parental malfeasance and his constant visits to the pub and (even funnier) the bathroom, always preceded by his whining and warning, "I may be some time." The bumper segments with God, Jesus, and assorted dead celebs are also quite inspired.Unfortunately, only the first 6 episodes have run on LinkTV and there's been no sign of the rest of them, nor do the subsequent seasons seem to be available on DVD in the US, so when I will get to see them? At least there is a decent episode synopsis (Warning: There Be Spoilers) on Wikipedia.

This has to be one of the most underrated shows in animation history. Bro'Town has to be one of the most unique cartoons on television. A group of Austrailan Delenquens going to a school & made some mistakes & try to learn from them, noting seems too hard for them.The animation is average. Nothing spectacular, but suited for the show. The characters could use some work. Sione's Mom's voice is very Oringenial for a woman who sound like a man and Wong from Hong Kong sounds too much like Master Shake.Overall I give Bro'Towna 10/10. Good, but couldn't been on Nicktoon network of Adult Swim in the US instead.

Hey I am an Aussie and i love Bro'Town (maybe cos i saw it in time with NZ).... I have lots of Samoan and Mauldi (Maroi) friends out there I Love Bro'Town it's so Effing Funny it cracks me up.... From Asians are cool and Pepelo.. I can't wait 2 c Season 3... I haven't seen an episode yet cos the person who i get the tapes off hasn't been to NZ this year. But i can't wait..I brought Season 2 the day it came out on DVD... Cos i priced them all at work and took them out the box and put them on the shelf. So yeah i so can't wait to c it.. The character all remind me of some1 i know. Whn me and my friends so it for the first time we all thought MAC was like some1 we all knew.. Abocrombie is me... Cos i come from the land down under and i'm quarter Abo to...anyways every1 watch bro'town Canada just got picked up Bro'Town so enjoy it all ur Canadians

This show tops most of the American and Australian TV output of recent years. The animation is rather uninspired but that's because the animation industry in New Zealand is (according to the Naked Samoans) only just getting off the ground. And indeed, because of this, this show will probably later on be hailed as a landmark in NZ television history. However, the Naked Samoans excel in coming up with clever and meaningful story lines with spiritual significance, as well as writing blisteringly funny one-liners ("Is he gonna live, doctor? I have to give him a hiding for getting run over!"). They have also created extremely lovable characters who, while unashamedly stereotypical (this is actually what make it so easy to relate to anyway), are all given specific episodes in which they feature more than the others (think the flashback episodes in "Lost"), which allows them to be developed in greater detail. These are kids you could find in any school in the world. There's Valea, the leader of the pack who loves nothing more than picking up hot chicks; his twin brother Vale, the quiet and conscientious one who keeps the peace; Sione, the smooth ladies' man who constantly gets stuck in humiliating situations, mostly in front of girls; Jeff da Maori, the Bob Marley-idolizing Maori who was fathered by eight different men; and Mack, the chubby and clearly gay one the gang use to get out of trouble. It's very easy to argue that with the central group of boys it tips its hat to South Park, but that show gets laughs from its obscenities. bro'Town gets laughs purely from its wisdom and heart. I actually hope it doesn't air in the US, because if it does the Americans will buy the rights to it, receive artistic control over it, and in doing so, Americanise it, and commercialise it. I love it just the way it is. And anytime you've got Helen Clark and Russell Crowe on your side, you know you've got something special. And lastly, how many animated shows from ANY era or country can you think of which had some sort of spiritual moral interwoven into each episode? MORNINGSIDE 4 LIFE INDEED, BRO!!!!!!