The Shrimp on the Barbie

1990

Comedy

8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 41% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 1708 1.7K

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Plot summary

Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.

Director

Alan Smithee Photo
Alan Smithee

Top cast

Noel Appleby Photo
Noel Appleby as Slim
David Argue Photo
David Argue as Kevin
Carole Davis Photo
Carole Davis as Dominique
Jeanette Cronin Photo
Jeanette Cronin as Maggie Ridley
480p.DVD
762.05 MB
512*384
English 2.0
PG-13
23.976 fps
1 hr 26 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

This is a funny Movie

This is a funny Movie.
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Entertaining. Guy heads out to Australia to make

Entertaining. Guy heads out to Australia to make some money when his girl dumps him. He then gets a job being a jerk boyfriend for a woman who wants to get her father to let her marry a real jerk.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

I like "Shrimp on the Barbie." I'm a

I like "Shrimp on the Barbie." I'm a big Emma Samms fan, and that's pretty much what initially attracted me to see this movie. Made during the big Australia interest in America after "Crocodile Dundee," the movie stars Cheech Marin with Samms as a guy who moves to Australia to start a new life and ends up trying to save a restaurant from going bankrupt. To get the money, he gets hired by Samms to prove her father's hypocrisy against her boyfriends so she can get married. Wildly let loose with the script, Marin tries to become a "boyfriend from hell," the movie's alternate title. Along the way, however, he can't seem shed his down-on-his-luck likable loser image, and even Emma's character changes from a frustrated snob to being a bit more wise for her ordeal. The charming plot seems to poke a lot of fun at the rich, proving it is a bit than a comedy. The storyline rolls to its end as if it were one of Aesop's fables with the villains getting their due, and everyone happy in the end. There are a few eccentrics along the way to remind you this is a comedy, Emma's horse-loving cousin being the funniest. This movie is one of the jems in the outer rim of Comedy Central's cavalcade of 90s movies, but it doesn't get quite as much of the respect it deserves.
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