Save Your Legs Review

Cricket and Australia go hand in hand. There’s nothing more typically Australian than playing backyard cricket with your friends after school and on those lazy summer weekends. But what happens when you’re supposed to grow up?

Save Your Legs, directed by Boyd Hicklin, and is a heartfelt Australian comedy, exploring one man’s struggle to live out his lifelong cricketing dream: To have his amateur suburban team play internationally.

After a rather convincing white lie, he manages to score a sponsorship that funds his team to play in India. With dreams of winning the Mumbai Nationals, the rag-tag team of middle-aged Australian men bat and bowl their way around India, encountering embarrassing losses, illicit substances, food poisoning and of course some Bollywood stars.

This movie is a shining example of Australian humour. Harsh realities and hilarious tragedies intertwine with the small victories and personal epiphanies these men experience while travelling one of the most spiritual countries on earth.

What I liked about this movie was that even though it’s based around one of our national sports, you don’t need to know how to play, or even understand the game to enjoy the movie. The plotline itself revolves around coming to terms with being an Adult, and welcoming the next phase of your life rather than trying to stay a child forever.

Save Your Legs is a lighthearted coming-of-age (for the middle aged) movie, worth a watch if you enjoy Australian comedies and Bollywood renditions of the classic tune ‘ Dreadlock Holiday’.