Saw Welcome to Woop Woop (thanks, John!) It was a fairly wild film about an attractive dude who gets trapped in an incestuous, cult-like small town in the Australian outback. The film is a shaggy-dog comedy. It reminded me a lot of Nothing But Trouble. This film is similarly enthusiastically and boldly different and also unfortunately not very good. This also sort of feels like Wake In Fright. It similarly depicts small-town Australia as being brutal and anarchic, ruled by tin-pot despots and populated by giggling weirdos. It's all in good fun, if not in good taste.
Anyway, the film is alright. It's fairly wholesome, almost sweet in a way. It does have an extended sex scene in the beginning however, so not family-friendly, just ugly and friendly, like a loveable dog with a skin disease.
The townspeople in the film are kept docile by continual Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. This film seems to be a poke in the eye of all of that self-satisfied pap. One of the most interesting thing about the film to me is the backstory of trying to get Julie Andrews' and everyone's permission to use the music. Apparently the director of this film also filmed Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and they were able to leverage the goodwill of the Hollywood gays to get their way. I feel that that story would be interesting to hear.
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