Thanks, Baby Cheeses: Both ‘Kath And Kim’ Movies Are Coming To Netflix
Move over 'Citizen Kane', 'Kath And Kimderella' is here.
Kath and Kim is a pure expression of Australian gothic: a mini-sausage slathered look at our country in all its great horror and its beauty.
You can keep your Henry Lawsons and your Banjo Pattersons. The true story of our country is not expressed in lilting ballads about the noble bushranger, or the noble Anzac, or the noble farmer, it’s communicated in the precise moment that the mercurial Kim carries in a monstrosity composed of still-wax wrapped individual baby cheeses.
No surprise then that the show is having something of a moment. Thanks to it recently being folded into the Netflix catalogue, Kath and Kim are once more cornerstones of the cultural conversation. They’re even being picked up by an international audience, many of whom are presumably learning a great deal about our country, our customs, and also the life and death of esteemed author Virginia Woolf.
Ok to all my Aussie followers…. I have just started watching Kath and Kim as they have put it on Netflix in the UK and I am obsessed…. why did you all keep this a secret from me ???
— ????? ???????? (@MrHarryDerbidge) August 20, 2018
Well, looks like Netflix have decided to keep the train rolling: as first reported by Pedestrian, on October 13, both feature-length Kath and Kim films are hitting the streaming giant.
The first Kath and Kim adventure is a star-studded romp through suburban Australia that featured cameo appearances from Michael Buble and The Wiggles. If that wasn’t enough 2005 nostalgia for ya, the flick was also titled Da Kath And Kim Code (remember Dan Brown?)
The sequel, Kath And Kimderella, was something of a higher-budget affair. Set in part in Italy for reasons that are best described as ‘complicated’, and heavily featuring Academy Award-nominated screen legend Richard E. Grant, the film is a mess of the most enjoyable kind — a demented rom-com that starts strange and gets stranger.
So, guess it’s time to block out the 13th and make plans to snuggle up on the couch with a bowl of Franks, your laptop, and three hours worth of Kath and Kim kontent. Sounds pretty unbeatable to me.