Boring, bland plot. Undeveloped characters. Not well written. I have not read original novel. So I am hoping, it has all the ingredients of a memorable coming of age tale. The fault may be in the screen adaptation. Overall a really thin, predictable plot. More so an advertising campaign for the South Australian tourism board than anything. Nice photography. But the whole thing didn't 'have it'. It confused me, it could of been passed off as a children's film, as it was such a simple, predictable plot. But, the nudity (which I am fine with) says that it was not produced for the children's film market. I think if this had been produced and sold as a children's movie, it would of cut it. But, it is clearly designed for a young adult/adult market. Unfortunately it is 'laugh out loud' bad, trying to watch this film seriously as an adult. Sorry filmmakers, you blew your chance at making a good film. Go back to film school. Really awful, in fact embarrassingly awful.
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