MILK!

You indeed ended it on a BANG! That's Nice Milk!

I wish this team had a leaf blower; it would have enhanced some of the practical effects! No other complaints...

That's nice milk!

In an era of consistently increasing dairy prices, this team takes on the everyday struggles of the average kiwi milk-lover.

Few have dared to skewer such heavy political issues with so much aplomb. Neato Productions have proved once-and-for-all that there is comedy to be found in even the grimmest of topics.

All jokes aside, this was a very very well made film. Incredible pacing and an absolute powerhouse performance by the lead. Understated and perfectly dismissive at all the right times. Part of it felt very Tim and Eric influenced and, while I sadly couldn’t attend this heat, I’m sure it tore the roof down.

Creamy.

NEATO!! You glorious clowns!! You gave me everything I wanted and more!! Such a great use of everything! Opening with the quote is SO FUCKIN GOOOOOD!! Great foreshadowing! Just a delight all round!

Absolute cinema!!
The gradual build up to an explosive conclusion worked so well. This is the right place for a film of this nature and it had our watch party in hysterics (some unable to watch - in the best way possible). If this make the finals all in attendance need to be drinking milk to honour the efforts put in here:)

Great to see people who get rock hard over the idea of drinking icy cold milk get some representation onscreen at last. Loved the dream sequence and the frankly appalling SFX of the tiny guy running on the bench. This is the garbage we wanna see.

A thing of beauty.

I loved the subtle foreshadowing of the art on the wall. I also loved the not-so-subtle antics that ensued.

Discerning viewers will note that this film contains a G-string.

Unnecessary self review here but screw it...

I don't care, this is the best movie of the year. For the last 2 weeks I've been regularly laughing out loud, just because my mind drifts and I remember one of Liam's line deliveries or the fact that sooner or later, TV's Jason Gunn is gonna ask me to see what we used his voice for. I'm so glad it's seems some of you like it as much as us.

Special thanks to our hugely talented actresses from last year not being available leading us two non-actors to make this complete nonsense.

Undeniably peak cinema !!

This team lives up to its word and follows through with a bang, as others have already pointed out. This is also the type of entries that I love where I can tell the team behind this had a blast making this which epitomises what 48Hours is about. All the comedic beats hit, incredible acting and the story flowed flawlessly. Of course, the crème de la crème was the end.

Well done team, expect to see this on the big screen!

Ahahahahahaha oh mannnn, this was an absolute hoot. We figured this one could go either way - would the judges appreciate the punchline, or would they be turned off by it?

Sorry to say, it wasn’t for them - although not for the reason we assumed. We thought they might just be grossed out, but nah. This is another film in our collection that fell prey to the judges being completely obsessed with genre usage this year. Not nature enough I guess team! Sorry...

But we loved it, and genuinely have no real notes for improvement for next year - other than stick as close to genre as you can if your goal is finals, apparently...

The performances were great! Don’t sell yourself short on that. The silly song was awesome, and we absolutely adored that ending.

Okay, actually we do have one note - we absolutely loved your reference to AJ’s comment from last year (we did that once too), but our advice would be to put that sort of thing in your team intro, not your film. That way the film stands on its own two feet without needing comp history to carry it (there’s another team that fell prey to this in an even bigger way this year - wonder if you can guess who that was...)

THE BEST THING: Honestly this team we do feel is firing on all cylinders, and it’s sad you're not getting as much love as you probably deserved this year. The best best thing though the paintings' foreshadowing hahaha

THE NEXT THING: We think it’s time to see Neato Productions get out into the big wide world and take your characters on an adventure — one that goes beyond the four walls of a townhouse and really sinks into something grand. You have it in you!

PS. Awesome to see you Luca at every heat and review every film! You've made this years comp better for it, thank you!

a lyrical meditation on forbidden desire