bro'Town

2004

Seasons & Episodes

  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

6.9| 0h30m| en
Synopsis

bro'Town is a New Zealand Television animated series. The show used a comedy based format, targeted at a young adult audience. The series is set amongst New Zealand's fast growing Pacific Islander community, and focuses on a central cast of five young boys. bro'Town is heavy with popular culture references, and is based on the performance of the local four-man group The Naked Samoans. Vale, Valea, Jeff da Māori, Sione and Mack live in the suburb of Morningside, and attend the local college, St Sylvester’s, where their principal is a Fa’afafine and the P.E. teacher is the legendary ex-All Black rugby player Michael Jones.

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BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.
Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
PayOrPlay I've recently discovered bro' Town on the little-watched, but occasionally indispensable, left-of-center US channel "LinkTV" (channel 375 on DirecTV), and have now watched all of the first season.I'm not a New Zealander, have visited only once for about 3 days, so I am sure I am missing about a third of the jokes and the accents are daunting sometimes. (And the erratic close caption subtitles frequently get things wrong, which is funny in itself.) But there's plenty left over for the non-locals. I find myself laughing out loud at least a dozen times in every episode.It's not surprising that people compare it to South Park, since it involves a gang of quasi-delinquents, but it reminds me more of King of the Hill: the tone is fairly laid back with intermittent bursts of surrealism, like Jeff da Maori's eight dads; the body-painted Australian Aboriginal student inexplicably dropped into this Auckland school; and Pepelo Pepelo's bizarre parental malfeasance and his constant visits to the pub and (even funnier) the bathroom, always preceded by his whining and warning, "I may be some time." The bumper segments with God, Jesus, and assorted dead celebs are also quite inspired.Unfortunately, only the first 6 episodes have run on LinkTV and there's been no sign of the rest of them, nor do the subsequent seasons seem to be available on DVD in the US, so when I will get to see them? At least there is a decent episode synopsis (Warning: There Be Spoilers) on Wikipedia.
Mike DiCanna Anyone comparing South Park to this gem of a series, has got to be smoking crack. yes they both exploit stereotypes. That's where similarities end. the writing style is completely different. It would be like comparing Family guy with SP. (with South Park looking like having something resembling a story)Bro'town has got soul. it's far more coherent, better written, and ultimately, more offensive than either SP or FG could ever be to the American, PC-obsessed, media. The difference is that it doesn't try to be offensive with quick punch after another. The main characters aren't quick 5-second sideshows like they would be in a typical American cartoon. Maybe some people may not like to hear this. but if you grew up in a ghetto, you knew ppl who were as one dimensional as these characters. It's just is what it is. It would suck if we couldn't laugh at this because some pc-head thinks it racist.Latin America has picked up the series on cartoon network Latin America. and I hope some channel like BET (because let's face it, it won't get aired on any other American channel) picks it up, because they're the only ones in the US who will get this type of humor.Can't wait for season four!
MarkyMark81 I can't believe this show is doing well back home. I think that this show is the worst thing I have ever seen. Now I'm a fan of South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, King of The Hill (All shows which critics back home have said is 'New Zealands answer to..') so it's not a matter of taste. It's just stupid.As a part-Samoan, New Zealander I understood when it was TRYING to be funny. But it just wasn't. So it's not a matter of having to be a New Zealander to find humour in it. If you like to laugh at exaggerated stereotypes combined with toilet humour but without the wit of South Park then you will enjoy this.
Ian Gorton I'm gonna go against most of the reviews on here and say that I love this show. Yeah it's a bit crude but I love it cause of that. I don't watch this show to be intellectual, I watch it for a good laugh and for a release as it were.I was told about this show by my brother and I though looks like I'll have to have a look at it. My favourite quote is the one about their dad wanting to watch his pornos in peace. I had to have it explained to me what the whole 8 Dads things was all about though with the Jeff da Maori character.It amazed me too the number of celebrities they got on this show even the NZ PM. I couldn't imagine little Johnny Howard doing a cartoon here that's for sure.