Friday 12 August 2005

Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)

There are not too many Australian movies that I really like, but this is one of them -- and unlike most of the others, it is definitely not art house fare. It is the extremely rude and raucous tale of a American con man (Johnathon Schaech) who escapes to the Outback of Australia where he falls in with a flighty female who lures him to a settlement in the back of beyond where her father (a nearly unrecognizable from his leading-man days Rod Taylor) rules the roost according to his own laws.  These include not allowing any one to leave.  The community is full of eccentrics and they are all obsessed with Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals which play in the background nearly non-stop. It carries along in this weird vein until the viewer begins to doubt his own sanity. A definite oddity.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I saw this movie when I lived in New Zealand. I loved it but have been unable to find it anywhere in the UK.
http://journals.aol.co.uk/acoward15/andy-the-bastard/