The Hopes and Dreams of Gazza Snell is just the sort of film that the Australians make so well and we which we Kiwis don't - until now that is. Whilst satirizing the characters and the world its depicts it has us laughing with the characters not at them from the start. Gazza Snell himself is a kiwi classic (played brilliantly by Australian Willian McInnes), a man full of heart if not good sense. Robyn Malcolm puts in a great turn as his long suffering wife and they are well supported by a cast of relative newcomers. Within a short space of time the Snell family had me thoroughly engaged by their tribulations and they held me to the end. Its worth seeing for the Go-Carting sequences alone. Spoiler alert - this is not a film for cynics! And thank god for that.
