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one of my absolute favorites!

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

I think this is the funniest sit-com I have ever watched. It makes me laugh out loud more than anything else I have ever seen. Why is a rambling conversation about buying a cup, or Simon and Garfunkel tribute acts, so funny? The writing is perfect and the acting is perfect. I do not know how these guys keep a straight face - not just Jemaine, Bret, and Murray, but the understated support cast too. The idea of a musical sit-com sounds horrendous - but not only are the songs very very funny but they are actually good songs too. Production quality very high. Consistently ingenious, pure joy. It also makes me want to go to New Zealand.

What a huge disappointment this turned out to be, after all the hype & the glowing reviews from some quarters - I'm really at a loss to see what all the fuss is about. The first episode was very weak, but I thought I'd give it one more chance.... but there was no improvement with episode 2 either.It's not especially funny, it's not particularly clever, & it's just terribly dull. I admit that Bret & Jemanine are good at knocking out the odd witty, spoofy & ironic folky tune about the vagaries of life, but you get the feeling here that that's as far as it goes. One or two songs, stretched & padded out with other material across 25 minutes with no real plot to speak of doesn't really make for classic comedy, & leaves the viewer feeling rather short-changed. I'm just amazed this show ever got commissioned into a series! Another problem is that you don't particularly feel any sympathy with the characters themselves - I found myself not really caring what happened to them, bad or good, & not making any emotional connection to them. To be fair, I think the genesis of a good idea is lurking here, but it needed a great deal more development, & would have benefited hugely from a top-notch script editor - one who could perhaps have crafted their paper-thin comic noodlings into some kind of cohesive plot & made it more palatable.Please don't buy this without at least viewing some excerpts on YouTube first (as another reviewer has also recommended) - at least then you won't potentially waste your money like I did (my copy will be going to the local charity shop). There are so many excellent comedy shows out there - sadly though, this isn't one of them.

This show is perhaps one of the most boring, most unfunny shows I've ever seen. While the humour was subtle, and I'm all for the subtle humour; the jokes just weren't funny.The show is about two Kiwis in their mid-thirties living in New York trying to start their music careers.I saw the one episode where Brett leaves the other Kiwi behind during a mugging. Okay, the plot idea has potential; but I got the feeling that half the episode was just filler, and the other half was actually important to the story.What I mean is, they kept on explaining how the one who was left behind felt betrayed and had a lot of mistrust for the other guy. I've got one piece of advice for the writers: mention it once for the idiots who can't figure it out by the way he's acting, and move on.And I found the characters were annoying. The character who left the other behind, Brett, came across as being overly innocent and naive, the one left behind walked around talking in this monotone and robotic voice.A third character, who was the band manager, was obviously incompetent, but he was the one character that I liked. He's also the one that earned the show a one-star rating.All in all, a show I have no intention of ever watching again.

I loved the first season of this show, but the second season has just been abysmal, and I'm hard pressed to think it's even the same SHOW! Does anybody have any idea what happened? I don't think I've ever seen a show do such a 180! Even the songs are worse, they just seem half-assed and written as filler instead of the story being written around the songs. I've noticed that Bret is also a lot more "confident" which really sucks, he was way funnier as the really shy and submissive guy in Season 1. I really hope they can turn it around for the second half of the season. (Although Murray is still hilarious as ever). Has anybody else noticed this, or am I alone and I should just put down the bong?