The life of legendary scientist Albert Einstein is re-imagined as a slapstick farce in this comic fantasy. Changing Einstein's country of origin from Germany to Tasmania, the film shows the scientist's eventful youth as he creates rock & roll and discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom. Director and star Yahoo Serious loads the film with slapstick comedy, absurd sight gags, and even sneaks in a romantic subplot in which Einstein courts Marie Curie. The film was a huge hit in its native
Australia but a major box-office disappointment in the United States, where audiences largely ignored the display of nonstop silliness. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
This movie was hyped in 1988 more than "Jason Goes to Manhattan" ever was!
Yahoo Serious was a quirky Australian comic akin to Pee-Wee Hermann and Napoleon Dynamite. I wonder if he inspired Yahoo.com??
Regardless, he appears in a quiet little comedy about his exploits and inventions in the small town in which he
lives. I liked the scene where they are planning to bake fluffy kittens into huge pies. There's a bit of a love story too. The music isn't too good. Yahoo's hair is red and punkish, like a modern-day Pippi Longstocking. It's worth checking out, but it didn't have me howling with laughter.
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