Without a shadow of a doubt one of the best caper movie from Oz in a while.Sure the plot may not be 100% original but it has enough twists and turns to make it zip along and a script that is blue enough to turn Granny's hair white, but somehow it all works.There's a strong balance between believable drama and very good comedy that makes this very easy to watch.Excellent performances by all involved, great entertainment, the court scene may be one of the best comedy scenes in Australian Film history (seriously) with its' perfectly incomprehensible dialogue, and overall Getting Squared it one to really enjoy and deserves to be seen.Great Viewing!

I work in the area the film is based. I drive past where most of the scenes were filmed daily and also encounter people exactly like those in the film.If you think the Australianism was put on or too strong, it's only because you don't spend enough time in Surfers Paradise or your from Melbourne or Sydney. The film was even daring enough to have a well known Gold Coast Underworld figure play a "heavy", and the fact is they may even played it down a bit, cause anyone who spends enough time in Surfers has seen him drive around in his Lamoborghini or Ferrari with the plates Shark on there.The united States has Goodfellas, we have Getting Square

Look, this is a pretty decent film, but isn't the working class comedy-heist thing getting a bit old?.Additionally, if you're trying to do an Ozzie 'Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' type film, you could perhaps be a little less obvious than to stick an English actor like Timothy Spall in a leading role, good though he is. The film seems to have some bizarre sort of cultural cringe to English heist movies, and having it set in Surfers Paradise, which is more like California than California, doesn't help ground it.That being said, even if the writing is nothing special, the acting is uniformly good. It's been said before and will no doubt be said again, but David Wenham is magnificent as 'Spit', the almost impossibly clueless junkie. His courtroom scene might just be the funniest five minutes of Australian cinema in years, and he absolutely steals every scene he's in. Honestly, it's worth watching the thing just for him.In other respects it's above average, but not by a lot.A strong 6.0 out of 10.

Look - this is not a great film. It doesn't take you anywhere you haven't been before, it is pure entertainment and nothing more. There's no intellectual challenge, there's no emotional connection - this is not an important film.That said, David Wenham's 'Spitz' is just so damn funny!And that's what this film is for. It's an entertaining couple of hours. It's not the saviour of the Australian film industry but it does have a place. Sometimes we just need to kick back, switch off and have a good laugh.Gettin' Square is funny, light entertainment. It's just your standard heist flick bordering on The Castle style suburban kitch but it does still stand up on it's own - just. Perhaps because we are strongly suspect that 'Spitz' actually does exist (even if we don't know him)... and please, Sam Worthington is so hot!