Director Paul Fenech
Starring Paul Fenech, Kevin Taumata, Angry Anderson, Ashley Avci, Tahir Bilgic
Rated MA
Score 3.5/6

Rabbit and Rongo, two dumb but kind-hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. Inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes.

Paul ‘Paulie’ Fenech is responsible for this one and for those of you out there who have no idea who ‘Paulie’ is he is most notable for the TV series 2000 Pizza (fans of Rebel Wilson might be interested to know that this is one of her earliest roles on Australian Television), the 2003 movie Fat Pizza and the 2011 TV series Housos.
Fenech’s work can be a little hit and miss and can I see how international auidiences might fans of his work, I also have memories not being overly impressed with Fat Pizza when I saw it in the cinema. Though I will admit that I have grown to appreciate his work no matter how ridiculous it might seem at times.
I haven’t sat down to watch the web series, though while shopping at the friendly DVD store and brought it. This might not be a rolling on the floor laughing out loud kind of comedy but I did find myself chuckling along so buying the Dumb Criminals DVD definitely wasn’t a money wasted kind of decision. What kept me going through the entire movie was both Fenech and Kevin Taumata’s performance as Rabbit and Rongo, because no matter how many times these guys seemed to be their own worst enemy and it should be noted that a lot of the dumb crimes portrayed in this movie actually happened in real life I just wanted to see these loveable losers succeed just once.