Welcome to Woop Woop (1998)

I love this movie so much

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

I saw this movie late one recent evening on MGMHD. While I was watching it in bed my wife woke up and asked me what was this crap I was watching. And much of the time I was watching it, I thought it might be crap too. It's disconcerting to watch and completely unconventional as a movie and quite off-putting in many ways other reviewers address. But after it was over, the atmospherics, mood, and offbeat nature of this film's virtually subconscious themes literally haunted me. I want to see it again. It literally haunts my dreams. It might be a great work of art because it moved me even though it also disgusted me.I'm no scholar or art historian so I make no claims other than this film jolted me in a way few others have. The closest thing we have in America are some of the films of Harmony Korine and I can't make up my mind if he's a great artist or disgusting fraud either. Maybe both. But I felt many of the same feelings after watching Gummo and Kidz.

To really appreciate 'Welcome to Woop Woop', one has to relinquish two things: A traditional view of comedy, and any preference for politically correct representations of countries and their inhabitants. If you can do that, you are going to love this movie. Teddy is a good-looking swindler who seems to have New York conned and wired. When he loses the many expensive Australian birds (that he sells illegally) during a transaction, he takes off for Australia to follow them. All of this takes place during the credits, setting the story up to take place in Australia, where Teddy gives a ride to a gorgeous blonde. After a few days of a mini-romance, Teddy plans to drop her off and go about his business, but agrees to take her to the ocean first. It is at the beach that his companion lures Teddy into saying he loves her, and from there the plot develops into a hilarious, albeit kind of twisted, view of a tiny Australian community and their bizarre inhabitants. Welcome to Woop Woop has its funny moments, but a few dramatic ones, too. These are just dramatic enough to push the plot along but not so much as to overwhelm the comedic element. It eventually *does* become a love story, just not the unrequited one where the movie started. This aspect of the movie is incredibly well done, and isn't at all forced as love stories in black comedies often are. Welcome to Woop Woop doesn't take itself too seriously, and neither should the viewers. Its a fun, twisted comedy with unique characters and convincing actors to play them - not an Academy Award winning masterpiece. But it is definitely worth the hour and a half, and several more views, as well.

Welcome to woop woop is great fun, provided you leave your morals at the door kick back and enjoy it, like great sex. It is at times silly, the music from some of the greatest Broadway shows is also great and a nice touch. One of the best scenes is at the end of the credits which is a must see and you will have final laugh. I don't want to divulge any of the plot or story except to put it in a nut shell, a con man escapes to Australia, meets and marries a nymphomaniac who takes him home to a town called Woop Woop deep in the Australian outback, run by a mad man, his father-in-law. If you like bad movies that are so bad they are good, great in this case. Do yourself a favor and see this, it was just released on DVD this month.

This is a film classic, in the mode of 'There's something about Mary'. Rod Taylor gives the performance of a lifetime. The ethereal counterpoint provided by the Rogers and Hammerstein scores is strange and wonderful at the same time. It's a comedy, a very dark comedy. It's a love story ... F#*($K me blue, F*@#(K me raw, to the strains of The Sound of Music. It's great entertainment. It's Deliverance meets Rogers and Hammerstein. It's Sex and Drugs, and Broadway show tunes in the Australian outback. A combination your not likely to have sampled before, but one you will wish there was a sequel for. If TV sitcoms are your thing, you just won't get this film. It's bizarre, shocking (if you shock easily), wildly funny, and atmospheric. Is there something about this film that is uniquely Australian? Probably not, this had to have been a bizarre and disturbing dream, or a psychotic episode scripted. It's great entertainment, and certainly an escape from reality. It's a 10