Dirty Deeds and Good Clean Fun: Some Recent Australian Caper Movies

'The definition of a caper film might often seem to be: 'An entertainment in which the cast appears to be having more fun than the audience.' Brian McFarlane examines the merits and complexities of recent Australian crime comedies 'Bad Eggs', 'Take Away', 'Two Hands', 'Dirty Deeds' and 'Gettin' Square', and wonders whether the usually genre-resistant Australian film industry might not be establishing a new sub-genre 'The Aussie caper flick'.