Everyone loves Bush Christmas so it's a surprise it took the CTF so long to make another movie in Australia and even more surprising that it was such a dud.
Oh, maybe "dud" is too heavy. It's not very good. It has a strong "world" - surf clubs - but is mortally wounded by dubbing all the actors into this sort of cockney English. Even Leonard Teale. The kid actors are dubbed by people who seem to be too old.
The hero is a little kid who looks up to his elder brother who is a smug surf life saving prat. There's none of the easy egalitarianism of Bush Christmas - no decent female or black part. No decent villains either just some random delinquents who periodically come along to cause trouble.
The views of Sydney beaches are nice. That's about it.
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