Bro'Town-Complete First Season (2004)

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General		Extras
Category	Drama	Main Menu Audio & Animation Featurette-Making Of-Trailer Credits-Extended Promo Featuring "The Naked Samoans"
Rating
Year Of Production	2004
Running Time	130:00 (Case: 153)
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	None Given
Studio Distributor	SONY Pictures Sony Pictures Home Entertain	Starring	David Fane Mario Gaoa Oscar Kightley Shimpal Lelisi
Case	?
RPI	$29.95	Music	Nesian Mystik

        In short, bro'Town is New Zealand's answer to South Park.

    Written and performed by the The Naked Samoans, it details the life of 5 kids living in the suburb of Morningside, New Zealand.

    Set in a Pacific Islander community, the 5 boys (Vale, Valea, Jeff da Maori, Mack and Sione) attend their local school and and wreak havoc in the Morningside community. The show does a good job at satirising the kid's culture, religion (which suprisingly has a strong theme throughout the series) as well as NZ culture and personalities.

    The entire first season is included on this one disc set.

• The Weakest Link: The boys go on a quiz show up against kids from different schools.
• Sionerella: The school ball is coming up and Sione is not allowed to go. The funniest part involves Xena and current Cylon Lucy Lawless doing a sex-ed demonstration.
• The Wong One: Wong, a Chinese student, moves to Morningside and quickly makes friends with the Boys (who are using him for his wealth.) A woman called 'Grasshopper' arranges Wong's abduction but gets Vale instead.
• Get Rucked:  The All Blacks guest star as the boys must play rugby for school pride. (When can't Kiwi's not bring up rugby!)
• A Mâori At My Table: Quite possibly the Whale Rider tribute episode where foreign investors want a piece of the homeland.
• Go Home, Stay Home: Pepelo and his sons, Vale and Valea face a domestic crisis. A funny look at family relationships as well as welfare benefits.

    Overall, the show is a lot of fun and an interesting cultural glimpse into our Trans-Tasman cousins. Australian television would do well to go out on a limb more often and make something up to this standard.

Video

        This PAL disc is presented in 1.33:1 fullscreen, the original broadcast ratio.

    The picture was quite impressive. The animation has an excellent stylised  looked and really looks good.

    There was no grain.

    The colours were bright and quite vivid.

    There were no MPEG artefacts.

    There are no subtitles available.

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Audio

        The only audio available is a English Dolby Digital 2.0 (192Kb/s) track.

    Nothing stands out about the audio, but overall it is quite a competent track typical of many recent 2.0 television tracks.

    There is a reasonable level of range between dialogue, sound effects and the music.

    The dialogue is clear and easy to understand.

    The theme song and other music are pretty catchy and sound good.

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    Making of bro' Town trailer (3:47)  Brief look at behind the scenes

    Extended Promo featuring the Naked Samoans (16:30): Essentially a highlights reel some comments from the Naked Samoans.

        There is no R1 version and even if there was I don't think they would get it!

        The show is fun, but just as you get into it the overly short season ends.

    The video looks great.

    The audio is quite good.

    The special features are brief and will be a let down for fans.

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