The Real Macaw Review

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The Real Macaw

Release Date: 26th September 1998 - Australia

Production Companies

Adelaide Motion Picture Company

Becker Entertainment (presents)

Australian Film Finance Corporation Limited

Bellwether Films

The South Australian Film Corporation

New South Wales Film and Television Office

Film Queensland

Genre: Family

Rating: G

Runtime: 92 minutes

Budget: $5,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Gross: $741,876 

(Australia)

Plot Summary

In 1870, a Macaw parrot is
captured by a pirate in the
Amazon jungle and taken
aboard his ship, along with
priceless treasure stolen
from a temple. After a fallen
lamp sets the ship afire, the
pirate, bird and treasure are
set adrift somewhere in the
South Pacific Ocean. The
parrot watches as the
wounded pirate buries the
treasure on a deserted isle,
then dies beside it...

It is 1997 in Sydney and the
same parrot! Mac, is now
149 years old and lives with
his old buddy, the loveable
Grandpa. His 15-year old
grandson, Sam, also dotes on
Grandpa, but their fun-filled
world is shattered when Sam’s
father discovers Grandpa is in
serious debt and organises to
sell his lifetime home and
move him to a “pet-free”
retirement centre.

The prospect of being separated
from Grandpa is too much
for Mac, who reveals to a
speechless Sam that he can
talk. Really talk! What’s more,
he knows where the buried
treasure is! So Sam and the
eccentric Mac run away on
a treasure hunt...

Cast

Jamie Croft - Sam Girdis

Daniel Murphy - Mac (Voice)/Pet Shop Owner

Jason Robards - Grandpa Girdis

Joe Petruzzi - Rick Girdis

John Waters - Dr. Lance Hogan

Deborra-Lee Furness - Beth Girdis

Gerry Connolly - Lou Rickets

Robert Coleby - Mr. St. John

Petra Yared - Kathy Girdis

Nathan Kotzur - Scarlatta 

Crew

Director - Mario Andreacchio

Based on a Original Story/Screenplay/
Co-Producer - Bruce Hancock

Based on a Original Story/Screenplay -
Matthew Perry

Executive Producer - Richard Becker

Producer - Margot McDonad

Co-Producers - Tim Prescott and
Rocky Bester

Macaw Trainer - Peter Gregg

Production Designer - Ross Major

Director of Photography - David Foreman

Editor - Edward McQueen Mason

Music - Bill Conti

Review

Greetings, everyone, here’s another review, a family movie this time! When we think about family movies that featured live animals as they take up the spotlight from human actors, BABE is a worthy example of a film that is a rising success in both worldwide and Australia where the majority of it was filmed in the latter and even took place there. However, few of its competitors filmed in Australia did not achieve that same recognition and each of these were left out financially at the box office. South Australian filmmaker Mario Andreacchio was in a tough time that his all-animal kid-flick NAPOLEON (click here) wasn’t a success as he had hoped, nevertheless had tapped in to direct the feature while an another bird-centric film named PAULIE is about to make its way in theatres for that same year. THE REAL MACAW didn’t do so well with its low box office receipts and was shipped into direct-to-video packaging for American audiences. Though nothing in the film was altered and re-edited in that continent except that the macaw’s voice was re-dubbed by John Goodman. 

THE REAL MACAW is too predictable for a family movie and addresses some themes that were all tried and true, especially the inner turmoil of family is probably one of its main issues. Fortunately, the movie directs the viewers’ attention to its delighted comedy as well as its feathered main star who is a wisecracking bird full of personality and spunk and is voiced by the ad-libs of the original actor Daniel Murphy. I have to say, this actor is much better at giving the parrot its squawk than John Goodman had poorly done for the American version.

All the cast were spearheaded by some unrecognisable film talent in Australia with the exception of Jason Robards who is the only American actor in the movie and to a lesser extent, Jamie Croft. In my opinion the late actor is so out of place in this movie that even his role as the grandfather couldn’t save him in a forgettable movie that was forcibly marketed to international audiences. The young actor Croft gives a solid performance as the young boy who was desperate to save his grandpa from being sent into a retirement community as well as financial problems. 

THE REAL MACAW is just too average, it’s much harder to find in a bargain bin on a second-hand retail store as if it was a very rare bird indeed (no pun intended). All of you bird lovers out there will understand this critique that this whole movie isn’t good enough for the entire family audience.

Star rating: (5/10) Average

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