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"Welcome to Woop Woop" takes Australian cliches to the extreme. When con-artist Teddy escapes to the Australian outback, he finds himself drugged, unconsciously married and trapped in "Woop Woop" an outback town inhabited by zany hooligans.

I enjoyed it. Initially, I didn't want to rent it after reading several negative reviews, but I'm glad I finally did proving that critics are often wrong.

There's one scene which I won't spoil that hit the film's high-point, and let's just say I will never look at the Sound of Music again, or at least Mother Abbess.

The soundtrack was fantastic (especially the "Climb Every Mountain" remix) and the cast were great. Johnathon Schaech and Dee Smart gave nice performances, but the show stealers were arguably Rod Taylor and Susie Porter. Both reigned with charisma and succeeded in entertaining and disgusting audiences with their amazingly repulsive father/daughter performance . Paul Mercurio also makes a humorous cameo reiterating one of the stricter rules of "Woop Woop" ~ "Nobody leaves".

Although some scenes caused me to wince, such as the Woop Woop abbatoir scenes and a funny, yet disturbing incestual relationship, I suggest you check it out.

Welcome to Woop Woop is a brilliant satire of Australian culture.

7.5/10

I'd never heard of this movie, never knew Rod Taylor was Australian (this from someone who saw Hitchcock's "The Birds" in a theater during its initial release) and I really need to see it again when it is not interrupted every five minutes by a string of commercials, as on the Sinclair (Charge!) station where I did see it. No need to say much more; the other reviews tell you as much as you need to know, but I will say the opening sequence in New York probably probably nails the world's view of American gun culture and the two endings (preceding and following the closing credits) are worth the wait.

I did love the throwaway line about the asbestos mine burning for weeks.

Set in the Australian outback you might have thought this movie would have had more in common to the directors previous movie Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (1994). At the London Film Festical screening director Stephan Elliot started off before the screening that this definitely wasn't the case, and telling us it was about the more obnoxious of his country folk.

This shows a side of Australia that is being rather swept under the carpet. Although raucous and rude in the first half of the movie the mood turns darker towards the end.

And don't forget to wait till after the credits end for an amusing extra.

There are some very funny scenes including Barry Humphries as a blind petrol pump attendant - which so outraged the US lead that he had to spend time recovering in his trailer - it was done fortunately in one take with Humphries ad libbing the scene. And an excellent performance by Rod Taylor as the leader of the community.

Shot in the height of the summer, due to Stephan Elliot becoming ill just before the original start date, the crew needed 36,000 gallons of water per day to survive and in one scene they had to fit the dogs in the scene with shoes to allow them to run across the set.

I am quite amused that Australians have some sort of issue with how "this portrays them," which makes no sense to me whatsoever. You don't hear Americans complaining when a film like Deliverance is made. Give the rest of the world some credit. Its as if every export must be somehow ennobling to the country of origin. This is ridiculous. I suppose a case could be made for this insofar as apparently Australian tax dollars went to support this film (why any country, which no doubt has problems with poverty and so forth as all countries do, would spend precious tax dollars on movies, is another issue altogether). But come on folks. Its not as if every Australian is some kind of brilliant, witty intellectual any more than that is true of any other country. I wonder if people whined about the portrayal of rural Scots when The Wicker Man was released. Having the idea that somehow characters in film must be idealized ethnic, racial, or national archetypes dooms any movie to being insufferably boring. No doubt Australia, just like the United States, has its own home-grown version of rednecks. And if not, so what. Does anyone really think that this is going to set some expectations of what Australians are like abroad?

Welcome to Woop Woop is not a brilliant film, but I found it entertaining and offbeat enough. From the beginning it is clear that the film doesn't take itself very seriously. I enjoyed the performances in this film, and the ending with the giant kangaroo actually made me chuckle a bit because I never thought they would attempt to use something that silly. I guess some people who were for some reason desiring realism or plausibility in this farce, were upset by this. I, on the other hand, applaud the use of nonsense like this. Were the rest of the film some kind of serious drama, this would have been idiotic, but given the film's tone, I thought it was an appropriate device.

There's a time for serious fare and a time for silly movies, and this one is extremely silly, but good-naturedly so. It is beyond my comprehension how someone could get angry over something so harmless.

Welcome to Woop Woop is like "Mad Max: Beyond Thuderdome" meets "After Hours". Rod, a con man from New York, high tails it to the Outback to dodge his captors, only to land himself in a new world of trouble. With one stop at a gas station, he picks up a hitchiker who, unbeknownst to him, becomes his new wife. And this lands him a one way ticket to the most backwards autocratic communal called Woop Woop, which was unofficially incorporated by the survivors of a an asbestos mill that fell and the town, ignored by it's corporate malfeasors.

Rod is in a giant, hot hell hole filled with the weirdest residents who have called it home their entire lives. And now, he's got to figure out a way to get past "Daddy," the self-appointed head of Woop Woop, and get beyond the walls alive. Woop Woop don't take kindly to deserters.

You'll notice similarities to Bartertown--Rod, like Max, is inadvertently thrust into a very aggressive communal type of isolated existence. Daddy-O even resembles Aunty Entity (and the movie even contains a Mad-Max like chase scene). Likewise, the movie draws similarities to Scorcese's "After Hours" given the kind of weirdo's Rod meets up with, baffled by their audacity and just how absolutely twisted they are. More importantly, in that these are crazy people that he can never seem to get away from.

The movie is pretty funny because you're forced to witness something of an isolated civilization built on seemingly modern technology, but used in a different fashion (you'll see what I mean when you watch it) and the story contains some political undertones, as well. It's well worth a try if you don't mind indy movies from the land down under. Bottoms up!

I can understand how non-Australians might not get "Welcome to Woop Woop". As an Aussie, I don't get it either.

Australian cinema has produced some off-the-wall comedies over the years, but this one is in a league of its own.

Teddy (Johnathon Schaech), an American rare bird smuggler on the run ends up in the Australian outback. He meets Angie (Susie Porter), a sexually veracious girl who drugs him and takes him to her community in the ex-asbestos mining town of Woop Woop run by her father Daddy-O (Rod Taylor).

Teddy wakes up to find he is married to Angie. He gets caught up in the weird lifestyle of the isolated community whose only source of entertainment and connection to culture is old videos of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals - a little like "Galaxy Quest" where the alien Thermians only understand human behaviour through the signals they have received of old television shows.

Along with the most strident of Australian accents, the changes of mood in the film are bewildering - singing, dancing and fornicating one minute and shooting dogs the next. This slice of Australiana makes the characters in "Wake in Fright" seem like Oxford dons.

I only saw "Woop Woop" recently (2015) when it appeared on "World Movies" about the same time as a documentary called "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!" Apparently Quentin Tarantino championed the documentary and I must admit it was more entertaining than most of the films it featured, including "Welcome to Woop Woop"

The cast gave it everything they had, and seemed to be in on the joke. Rod Taylor has one great scene where he does an electric tap dance to "Shall We Dance" on the bar with leads on his shoes connected to a battery. But as far as I'm concerned these were the only sparks generated in the film.

Stephen Elliott had made "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" the year before. "Priscilla" was outrageous with souvenirs of ABBA, ping-pong balls etc. - but it was funny. "Welcome to Woop Woop" is outrageous and tedious.

Would I recommend the film? Well that all depends on what you like. Some people relish a good bad movie. By bad, I don't mean poor editing or shoddy sound, far from it, "Woop Woop" is polished as far as production values are concerned - I mean bad in concept. It has a certain cult following, but that's one cult I managed to escape.

Certainly not a film I would have thought to be entertaining, "Welcome" turned out to be darkly funny yet depressing. Showing a different side of the mentally inept and the "what if" scenario of an entire town made up of loonies, the film rather captivated me as I watched in a manner close to horrid fascination. A movie worth seeing twice.

....Because it takes everything modern Australians despise about this country's past (most specifically its rural past), expands upon it in a manner almost perfectly designed to make us feel humiliated by it, and then packages it neatly in widescreen.

Well, maybe not. The fact is, WtWW is an oddball film, with a range of rather unpleasant characters in an equally unpleasant setting. Peter Weir's "The Cars That Ate Paris" took the same scenario and managed to turn it into a watchable, if not entirely likable film (best remembered for the spiky VW beetle).

But director Stephan Elliot isn't known for his directorial subtlety, and as such, WtWW treats the subject with all the vulgar caricature we've come to expect. He'd wanted to capture the last vestiges of "Old Australia" he'd encountered when he'd filmed "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" in various outback towns. \ But the majority of Australians are urbanites, many of whom seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to live down their past. As such, when this film was released in Australia, it reopened all those wounds of low cultural self-esteem and died the death of 1,000 bad reviews. Quite apart from being an intrinsically bad film, that is. ;) Elliot, in a TV special about the making of "Eye of the Beholder", said he felt he'd been well-sufficiently punished for it....

Over time, WtWW seems to have found itself a following, mostly amongst non-Australian viewers.... But considering it is an hour and a half of my life that I desperately want to take back, I'm certainly not amongst them. A pity really, for, as unpleasant as Daddy-O was, Rod Taylor's performance really is something to see....

I saw "Welcome to Woop Woop" a couple of weeks ago on HBO, on the recommendation of my American neighbour. He loved it! And he's right. I watched this film grinning from ear to ear, and if it were not for my neighbour's enjoying it so much, I'd have thought that only Australians would get the drift of this film.

"Welcome to Woop Woop" is resplendent with Australian iconography, and if you don't know the space you may have a hard time understanding the references. As an Australian, I can tell you those references are spot on! The language, being out in the bush, the actors Rod Taylor and Barry Humphries (Dame Edna) and so many others, the stereotypical Aborigine. Cockatoos, dunnies(outhouses), the VW van, the backyard tip (dump), the brand of beer (it's real), Rogers and Hammerstein films, kangaroos as Aboriginal spirits, kangaroos as dog meat (true, not good, but true), even the main character's dog ( a Blue Heeler, Australian Cattle Dog), and the reference to the beach. They have nailed this film. 10 stars!

I was never a fan of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, finding it far too in love with itself to enjoy as a whimsical comedy and not serious enough to generate empathy for the characters. I moreover didn't know Woop Woop's common heritage with Priscilla (though it takes all of about 10 minutes to guess it). So it was without any heightened expectations that I sat down to watch the flick. It wasn't a waste of an hour and 45 minutes, but it wasn't exactly the most memorable afternoon I spent either. Frankly I didn't think it compared unfavorably to Priscilla, but that's not a big compliment.

Basically, all the same problems that plagued Priscilla infect Woop Woop too: an overlong, meandering plot; thinly drawn characters, the assertion of camp as both aesthetic and anesthetic, and a general infantilism of vision. Apparently Cannes agrees with the first assessment, because the director cut the film drastically after its screening. As for the obsession with camp, maybe it's just a gay thing, but I don't think camp works when it's a primary aesthetic mode. For example, Woop Woop shows us the

denizens camping it up to camp classics like The Sound of Music, which is fine; but the thing that allows a film like SOM to play as camp is that it wasn't filmed that way.

Woop Woop, by contrast, like Priscilla before it, puts the camp right into the film from the outset. This leaves us nothing of our own to add. Instead, the characters largely appear to be mugging for the camera. Over time, this grows wearying.

This is not to say the movie is without its moments. The Australian outback is filmed spectacularly, and the actors do a good job with th limited roles they are given. But if it's outlandish Aussie antics you are after, check out any of the "Mad Max" films. You will get a bona fide camp experience to boot.

This movie is the very epitome of "so bad, it's good."

All the other reviews explain it far better than I could, but one thing that hasn't been said is that YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO SEE THIS MOVIE. -even if only to

ghasp in wonderment at how impossibly dumb and vile it is.

Except, actually, it has it's moments, surreal as they may be, and at some point it actually becomes hard to turn it off. Even sober.

If you've ever seen "Greaser's Palace," then you have some idea of what I mean, although G.P actually had a serious message (no, REALLY!) and this movie

definitely does not, the style is very similar.

I debated whether to give this one a one star or ten, no kidding.

(I decided on one star.)

See it if you get a chance, and yes, alcohol is recommended.

-Also a box full of foam object to throw at the screen.

You'll have a roaring good time.

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

Ok i have to admit that the main reason of seeing this movie was because its been made by the same director as Priscilla Queen of the Desert ( Stephan Elliot ) And that was probably my mistake. The story appeared to me in a Flintstone kind of way ( negative way ) how a story originally fun, turns out to be mediocre. Australian backgrounds, the Northern Territory ( where communities like the WoopWoops would not even surprise me ) and a weird bunch of people. What lacks in this movie is that from the moment that the maincharacter is forced to be part of the community, it automatically becomes obvious how the story will continue... Besides a few very funny moments, i cant agree on saying this is a Must-see :(

This movie was the terrible love child of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and The Hills have Eyes II. There is only one way to prove that you have watched it all the way to the end, if you watched it, you know what I mean. The acting was believable, the characters are so bizarre that it had to be an act, although there possibly are people who are that strange. Unfortunately, this movie has given me a stereotype of Australia that I won't be able to get out of my head any time soon. I will probably watch again in the future, if only to prove to myself that I have an peculiar and unusual view of entertainment and to see how many people I can get to watch it. Everyone should watch it at least once.

One of the wonderful aspects of cinema is that all the various originality of a culture can be presented, in any combination, with their indigenous visual and aural realities. The arid outback, the aussie dialect, and the Down Under idea of Wacky combine in this oh-so-funny film to bring you to tears from laughing so hard. You'll find yourself rewinding to see a great slapstick scene again, or to hear exactly what someone said. A quick take will clarify a confusing one several scenes earlier causing renewed laughter yet again. When the credits began rolling I began laughing again at remembered shots still teasing my memory. And laughter isn't all this film has to offer - bits of poignance, ire, and mystery are added to the recipe to round out its flavor. The story could only have been told in Australia by Australians to acheive so great result. So, Laugh me dead, Mate, if this wasn't a gem of a film!

I for once could not believe that Australia or ANY film company for that matter would finance this garbage that not only bruises Australia's reputation and appearance, but makes a mockery of everything labeled "Australian", especially to the poor soul who makes the most unfortunate mistake of watching this trash.

First of all, let's look at the non-existent plot. We have Johnathon Schaech portraying a drug runner who flees New York City from several thugs who would give anything to 'bust him up' a little. He makes a hasty escape to the Australian outback (of all places!) where he picks up a hitch-hiker wonderfully portrayed by Susie Porter who spends most of her screen time running around like a pig so that we can see her bare bum, her breasts in full exposure and having sex with Schaech's character every second she can, all for no reason at all.

She now wants to introduce Schaech to her 'loving' father and his clan of loonies who reside in some coregated-iron tin town in the middle of nowhere (hence the title of "WOOP WOOP") where they spend their spare time watching Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals such as "SOUTH PACIFIC" and "THE SOUND OF MUSIC" in between acting like a bunch of rednecks who may have breathed in too many toxic fumes from an 'off-screen' nuclear dump. Yes, all the residents here either have 'nuclear-burned' skin, missing teeth or incredibly ugly features that suggest imbreeding among the 'clan' or exposure to hazardous materials like toxic waste. Rod Taylor plays 'Big Daddy O', an overbearing, over-protective father of Susie Porter's character who refuses to let Schaech leave their nice little town because it seems that someone is now expecting a baby. In fact, he wants Schaech to do the right thing and marry Porter and raise their child in this delightful little neighborhood.

The only problem here is that Schaech wants nothing to do with any of this and he spends the rest of his time in the movie attempting to escape the lunatics and crazies that populate this dump. Oh yeah, this is also supposed to be a 'comedy', so prepare yourself for unintentional laughter, such as the mutant kangaroo featured in the finale of the film that destroys a jeep driven by Rod Taylor in what could be one of the worst scenes to feature 'special effects' in all of cinematic history.

Through all of this, I was quite embarrassed... not only as an Australian, but because I was the one who rented this junk and tried to present it to some friends who were from the U.S. and appeared quite lost throughout the excruciating 97 minutes that this horrific misrepresentation of Australiana ran for.

I have no idea what the film company thought when they read the script for this film. This isn't even worthy of being premiered on late-night cable at 2am in the morning. I was astounded and flabbergasted at how awful this movie was and I have absolutely nothing positive to say about "WELCOME TO WOOP WOOP". I actually felt a little embarrassed for Johnathon Schaech who found himself in the middle of this mess and probably wanted 'out' before filming was completed. And to follow this film up with 1998's cinematic dud, "HUSH", this is definitely something he could afford to leave off his resume.

If you want to see a film that portrays the once handsome Rod Taylor as a beer-guzzling, pot-bellied, red-faced, gin-soaked Aussie ocker, then "WELCOME TO WOOP WOOP" is definitely the movie to see him in.

If you want to see a film that offers something meaningful to both your intelligence and your wallet, then steer clear of this rot. And trust me folks - this movie definitely does NOT represent ALL of Australia.

0/10

It started well, so i really thought it will be a good comedy. But it ended in a very bad way. This movie is really bad. It's about a guy, Jonathan Schaech, leavin USA to Australia, stopping to put gas in his car. He meets Angie, has sex with her a few times and then wakes up married and impossible to leave the small unknown town of Woop Woop. It's pretty irealistic and the characters are bad, the plot is not good at all, and the ending is so awfull i even laughed, although i was not supposed to. Vote: 3 out of 10.

How can you give a bad rating to this film? This movie rocks. It is so unique and different. Just imagine that you are a grifter that a mobster is trying to kill. Oh yeah, you catch and sell cocateaus (I think that is how you spell it). So you decide to run off to Australia (you can catch some of those birds there). However, while you are in Australia you end up having sex with a lovely lady, who drugs you and marries you while you are passed out. Then she takes you to live on a compound deep in the outback that is run by her charismatic and psychotic father. Played incredibly by Rod Taylor. OK that is enough, you have to watch the rest and you will be happy that you did. This movie is eye and ear candy!

Even out in the far reaches of country Australia only morons and half-wits talk anything like the characters in this film. These kinds of parochial insulting "parodies" of Australian life are what killed the Australian film industry. We are not a bunch of "bushies" or "surf low lives" we are, for the most part, well educated, intelligent urbane people who live on a giant dry island. Our culture is made up of British, Scottish and Irish immigrants mixed unhappily with the indigenous population and topped up with people from everywhere on earth. To try and "capture" the essence of Australians with these degrading, ill conceived attempts to pump the lowest common denominator (The Castle, Kenny, Razzle Dazzle etc) just shows how skewered the Arts are in Australia to w*nkers - it's truly f***king terrible.

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 remember seen this horrific film in New York at a screening for the press. After about 30 minutes I was in pain, I had contortions all over my body, the garbage that was shown on the screen was making me puke, people around me were also in disgust. Now, this coming from the director of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, was really surprising. What's with the police shooting at birds? Is that supposed to be funny? What about all the trashing of Australian culture? Was the director on a bad trip? Oh man, I feel sorry for actors like Rod Taylor ending up in this awful mess, very embarrassing... Do yourself a favor, do not even think of watching this "movie" without first getting very drunk or stoned. Otherwise drink a lot of Pepto Bismol.

Well, I've read the responses to this little Aussie accident, and so far everyone's been slagging it off as a drivel, as offensive, as failing in its goal to be politically incorrect...etc etc etc. I have to admit that Aussie humour is an acquired taste (even though I am now a more complete man for knowing the phrase, "Part me beef-curtains!")but all I have to say is this: why are we getting hot under the collar about something called "Welcome to Woop Woop"? As I suspect Big Daddy would say, "If it don't make yer crack a fat, then it don't. Crack open a frosty and wait for the next picture. It's "South Pacific" tonight, ain't it?"

People giving it 9 and 10 must be part of the cast !

It is dreadful and possibly the worse movie I have ever seen !!

Terrible promotion of Australia and the acting...Don't get me started !

Director Stephan Elliott had a big hit with "Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" back in 1994. This is his 1997 followup which was a huge bomb. I like it, but it's easy to see why it failed.

A con man (Jonathan Schaech) travels to Australia to kidnap some rare exotic birds (don't ask). He is unexpectedly sexually attacked by a VERY aggressive young woman, and she knocks him out, drugs him and takes him to her hometown, Woop Woop, and proclaims he's her husband. Woop Woop is in the middle of nowhere, has a population of 50 and is definetely a strange place--Rodgers + Hammerstein songs are blasting from speakers all day (!!!), they kill kangaroos and make them into dog food and no one is ever allowed to leave the town. Schaech wants out...but can he make it?

To say this movie is bizarre is an understatement--it's VERY weird! Everyone overacts to the extreme (especially Schaech) and wear very weird, colorful costumes (I mean that in a good way). The script goes rambling all over the place, most lines make no sense and then there's the non-stop R&H songs! Still, it is very funny (if a little sick at times) and you can't take your eyes away from it.

The acting is, as I said, over the top but great. Schaech gets right in the mood of things from the beginning--he's very lighthearted, grinning continuously and gives his all to his lines. He's also handsome and hunky and has a few nude scenes. Also Rod Taylor chews the scenery again, and again, and again, and AGAIN as Daddy-O--the leader of the town.

It does lag a little at the end and it's definetely not for all tastes but totally off-beat and fun--particularly the opening in NYC and the last scene with...well, you'll know! A must-see for R&H fans.

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 ;-)