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Welcome to Woop Woop

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Some people will fail to see the humor in this wonderfully bizzare, eccentric movie. It's a great movie......where else can you see such spontaneously hysterical moments like someone dancing on the bar in electrified shoes? Or the funeral performed at the garbage dump with the cross of beer cans.....The dog food factory.... .....the continual passing of gas.....the list just goes on & on. It really made me laugh & laugh. I really appreciated this example of good cinema! It's definately one I'll watch again, and probably laugh even harder the next time around. It's hysterical. I loved it.

Widescreen presentation enhanced for 16x9 TVs. Some shimmer and artifacts, but overall picture was adequate. Rainbow and shimmer effect on end titles, so it could use improvement. As in the two other on demand titles from MGM, movie starts right away after inserted into player. No top menu.

The other two MGM On Demand titles (The Group and Two For The SeeSaw were both fine and without defect, but in my opinion, the quality of the Warner Archive and Universal Vault on demand titles were better).

DEFECTIVE: Copy I received has major defect at about 57.30 into the film and lasts for a couple of minutes, (yes I did check if there was surface dirt on the disc). Returned the disc for a replacement.

UPDATE: The replacement disc has the same flaw in the exact same place. Returning the DVD until I hear if they get the source fixed. Not a good start for MGM on demand.

Too bad. Woop Woop is quirky and fun. Johnathon Schaech is great! This film really deserves a formal release DVD or Blu-Ray.

Welcome to Woop Woop is the follow up film to Priscilla Queen of the Desert by director Stephan Elliott. Although there are many similarities to the previous film in regards to the humor from an Australian persective, an American audience may not get the joke. I love this film, no other film except for Muriels Wedding deals with the problems of child abuse and alchoholism in Australian society in this way. Although the film is hysterically funny there are many disturbing undercurrents that destroy the popular and completely innacurate image many Americans have about Aussies, and this is a good thing. When I showed Welcome to Woop Woop to my American friends in New Mexico they were universally horrified by this movie. They repeatedly begged me to take it off. I refused to turn it off till the scene where Rogerson Hammerstein's (how they're referred to in Woop Woop) The Sound of Music is being watched by half the towns population and the Reverand Mother asks Julie Andrews "What is it you can't face"? Which is promptly repeated by the audience who've replaced the a in can't with a u and have removed the apostraphy. There is real Aussie swearing through out the film. One reason I appreciate this film is that I was taken to see The Sound of Music 23 times before I was 12, so I'm now an expert on child abuse in Australia. The shocking thing about this film is how acurate this it is. The director does utilise many techniques in creating an exagerated reality but there are moments of terrifying reality as well as comic surrealism. If you want to see how a good proportion of Australians still are then get this film but be ready for a really wild foul mouthed ride into the outback with show tunes by Rogers and I mean Rogerson Hammerstein. Robbie Hudson

Please add this one to your collection. It is cheerful adn delightful. I have watched it at least 10 times and I will watch it over and over again. It makes me laugh every time. Love the Australian accent.

Anyone who has read my reviews know I love the absurd. This film takes you past the absurd, rounds the corner of lunacy, and takes a left on Kangaroo Fantasy Lane. Take a young American picking up an attractive hitchhiking aussie chick. Not a bad fantasy, huh? Now, the girl takes said boy to meet her family in Woop Woop, a town in the middle of a meteor crater, in the middle of the Outback (the nasty dry part), where the citizens make their living grinding roo carcasses into dog food (Woof Woof from Woop Woop). The patriarch of the towm rules with an iron fist, using Rogers and Hammerstein musicals to molify the clearly `disturbed' inhabitants into a mass of downright lunatics. And the law? "Don't diddle yer cousins!" The weird part? "Anybody leaves, their dead!" As if the threat of Big Red the kangaroo was not enough...Not weird yet? Throw in Dog day, where all the pre-adolescents are given guns to chase dogs amid tin huts and other dwellings that are straight out of Mad Max. Mix in a Matriarch with gastronomy problems ("Oops, pahdun meee!"), and nightly town viewings of American musicals on a tattered bed sheet screen. If you are a fan of the strange yet compelling (Dead Alive, Heathers, Buckaroo Bonzai, Six String Samurai...) you will love this flick. I showed this to my friends on Movie Night, and every one of them moved to the other side of the room, and eyed me suspiciously. This is AUSTRALIAN comedy (Croc Dundee was Americanized Aussie comedy) at it's best. But I will warn you, you have to enjoy avant gard humor! Trust me. I am never wrong

In my top three of All-time favorites. I always enjoy films that can be interpreted on different levels. On one level, just sheer odd and comical. There are so many memorable lines, similar to Office Space. On another level, the Aussies giving both the Americans and the Aussies heaps. ("heaps", the Aussie term for teasing). On a third level, the underlying dysfunctional character themes of control, manipulation and love. Stephan Elliot, the director, is very adept at making his characters and the situation they are in fully dimensional. You may need to watch it more than once to pursue its deeper messages but it is enjoyable from the first to at least the 15th viewing and beyond. Not neccesary, but possibly adding to your enjoyment would be an Aussie interpreter. Also try, The Castle, Muriel's Wedding, Lantana or Strictly Ballroom for more Aussie flavor. I enjoy Australian films for their focus on character development especially in a given situation. Australian films tend to rely less on special effects, gratuitous sexuality or big name actors to carry a film.

Welcome to Woop Woop amounts to a farce with a very unique (and appalling) storyline. The town Woop Woop is literally "off the map" and its inhabitants interact in a surreal and disturbing fashion.

Fleeing from danger in New York, the lead character (Johnathon Schaech) makes it to Australia, only to walk into a much bleaker situation - a kind of time-warp - where Daddy-O is the law, the judge, and the executioner. Rule number one: no-one escapes from Woop Woop.

Unfairly criticized as vulgar and offensive, many have missed what this film is all about. Properly understood, however, this makes for highly entertaining (if somewhat foreboding) viewing. Great stuff!

I turned the T.V. on @ 6:30 a.m. & was hooked there and then. This movie actually made me ask myself, "Am I really awake"? I was laughing until my stomach hurt. Was I awake? Yes, & "Woop Woop" came to life!
Buy this movie now! I promise, those of you out there who love to see wackie, non-traditional & "cracked out movies" this is for you!! K?
LKH

"The only good roo is a dead roo." So says the crazed leader of an isolated Australian town that turns roos into dog food and doesn't let anyone leave...ever. When a con-man named Teddy (Johnathon Schaech) runs from trouble in America he lands right in the hot frying pan after meeting the oversexed Angie (Susie Porter) and being kidnapped to become her husband, till death do they part. This is one slick yank that almost wishes he'd let the lone-shark back in America shoot him rather than tangle with the mad bunch living in Woop Woop. This is a great comedy, though be warned there's some sex scenes you won't want youngsters to see. Be sure to watch past the credit lines. There's a hidden conclusion mates!

Chrissy K. McVay - Author

This movie is funny! This movie is totally acceptable mate! Jonathon Schaech is wonderful as the con man Teddy who gets caught up in the biggest con of his life when he meets the sex pot Angie. The People of Woop Woop are eccentric, hilarious and wonderful. Rod Tayor (The Birds) is terrific and frightening as Daddy-O. Dee Smart is enchanting as the low self-esteemed Krystal and the use of Rodgers and Hammerstein music in updated hip 90's fashion is terrific! Jonathon Schaech is a actor we should all hope to see more of in the future, he is gorgeous as well as talented. I truly enjoyed this and recommend it along with other Austrailian goodies, such as Strictly Ballroom. P.S.- Watch out for the Big Red Roo!