Welcome to Woop Woop (1998)

One of my all time favorites.

Just perfect...

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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.

While it's not a musical, it's got a lot of music from Rogers and Hammerstein in it. It ranks up there with movies like Princess Bride and Office Space, that are classic films from the day they debut. There's a few interesting situations in this one, if you're easily offended, you might want to skip it, but for those who enjoy a little black comedy it's great. The summary doesn't do it justice.After leaving NY Teddy is on a trip across Australia to find himself. Instead, he finds love... Or love finds him, accosts him, and takes him back to Woop Woop, a town of odd balls in an anarchist society cut off from the real world. This movie of twists and turns will keep you laughing, crying (and maybe a little disgusted too.)

I just saw the movie (between 1.40 and 3.10 a.m.) as it was broad casted on Dutch television (SBS6). Weird, entertaining, funny and quite philosophic; especially at this hour of the night ;-). I was very surprised to find only really BAD reviews of Woop Woop at the internet. It seems my choice in movies/books etc is not the mass-opinion.This Monday I'm buying it, it's at least number 6 in my 'all time favourites' list :-) 'The usual suspects' & 'Lost boys' are some other examples of great movies (I think) and those are (in average) really well reviewed, so it's not that I only like weird ones. Go see Woop Woop! It's fun ;-)