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Yahoo Serious stars in this comedy about Albert Einstein, a youthful genuis who discovers not only the theory of relativity but the electric guitar, rock'n'roll, and how to put bubbles into beer. ... Read more

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Seriously Fun
Being an Aussie, I can see why old Yahoo Serious appeals to us lot and not many others. Like Vegemite, he's an acquired taste. Young Einstein might have left a bad taste in some mouths, but the soundtrack should have your ears ringing in delight. 100% playful and with some mighty tracks from The Saints and Big Pig (whatever happened to them?) and even some choice pop titbits from Paul Kelly and Icehouse. I saw this when I was barely 11 and never saw it again, but the soundtrack remains fresh and vital to this day! Invest. Now!

Worst. Movie. Ever.
There is not much more to say about this film.
It is the only movie Ive ever actually got up and walked out of in the theater.

Great music video in the movie
I thought the movie was very funny, but I that the segment with "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse counts as a great music video all by itself in the middle of the movie.

I don't know if this movie helped the band or vice versa, but Icehouse played that song at the Olympics in Australia.

And yes, the movie is silly, but fun.

can't top this
Fun, warmhearted, musical, falling-down funny- ...and 'somewhat' historical...? (Didn't Einstein try to split the beer atom?) A romp in the land down under where the forces of good (led by our hero- the true inventor of rock n roll!) save the day. Great music from bands you won't get to hear often: Icehouse, Paul Kelly, The Lime Spiders, Big Pig, and Yahoo himself.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy Yahoo Serious at his comic best.

Terrible waste of time!
The only way I could find this funny would be if I drank a lot of beer. Maybe that's why he's beloved in Australia.

It's terrible - poorly written, bad acting.

Don't waste any of your life watching this Yahoo.
Seriously. ... Read more

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"I thought a big snail was sliding up my nightie."
After watching director Jane Campion's film "Sweetie" for the third time, I am more impressed than ever. "The Piano" is Campion's more mainstream film, and some viewers may be disappointed in "Sweetie."

It's the tale of a dysfunctional Aussie family--Mum & Dad (Gordon and Flo) and their two daughters--Kay (Karen Colston) and Dawn (Genevieve Lemon). Kay, a nurse, is a very odd, quiet and withdrawn character. She's terrified of trees and despised by her workmates. Kay and boyfriend, Louis, have serious problems, and Louis is mystified by Kay's sudden recent withdrawal. But when Sweetie arrives on the scene, the root cause of Kay's problem is suddenly clearer. Kay's sister Dawn--also known as "Sweetie" is a perfect horror. Sweetie arrives announced at Kay's house one day, breaks in, and makes herself quite at home. "You stopped taking your medication, didn't you?" asks Kay in frustration, and apparently, Sweetie is unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Sweetie brings along her boyfriend/producer, Bob. Bob is apparently the only person left in the world who believes that Sweetie has talent. But he's under the influence of illegal substances, so he's hardly a reliable source. Sweetie is idolized by her dotty father, and she trades on a childhood skill of stepping off of a chair and tap-dancing. This is supposed to be the great talent that is going to get Sweetie a recording contract.

Sweetie's behaviour may have drawn adoring crowds of relatives in her childhood, but now she's delusional, and destructive. Meanwhile, Sweetie's mother, Flo, unable to take the stress of living under Sweetie's despotic rule, takes a job in the outback as a cook for a ranch full of Jackaroos.

Every family has a "Sweetie." In this film, Sweetie is encouraged in her deviant behaviour by her father--note the bathtub scene. The film reminds me of a sentence from Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" -- "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Sweetie's arrival has serious consequences for everyone, and her presence is sobering. A lifetime of doting parenting catches up with the characters in a catastrophic way. Louis has to take a long hard look at his relationship with Kay, and tells her "illusions don't go away--they become more subtle."

Many of the scenes take on a surreal quality and echo the bizarre nature of life with Sweetie. I've seen this film called a comedy, and it's true that it definitely does have a strong element of black comedy to it. Humour must be a pervasive element in Australian culture, but the story really is too serious to be classified as a comedy. Genevieve Lemon as Sweetie really steals the film with an incredible performance--displacedhuman

pure pleasure
I've seen three Campion movies. It took a long time for me to forgive 'The Piano''s humorless, heavy hands and move on to 'Holy Smoke!'. But HS revealed a comic sensibility that 'The Piano' never suspected. 'Sweetie,' Campion's first feature, is by far my favorite yet.

'Sweetie' is an odd film. Mostly, it's an examination of what it means to be an individual--inside of and outside of the repetitive struggles of family dramas--and the perils and joys of exclusion and elitism. Campion uses her sharp wit to draw blood, and without the comforts of a privileged moral voice (e.g. the competent parent or maternal sufferer of most family dramas), the humor can seem a little mean-spirited at times. But 'Sweetie' tempers its alienated perspective with moments of grace that are as terrifying, joyful and sublime as the dry open spaces of its Australian landscape.

Moving the viewer through a fractured world of beautiful and unsettling images, Sweetie is this director's most richly creative and psychically adventurous work.

family trees
This film is to director Jane Campion's The Piano what David Lynch's Eraserhead is to his The Elephant Man - a personal highly stylised experiment before the challenge of the more conventional big budget assignments that would allow for both a controlling of each director's excesses and a streamlining of their obsessions. The parallel between Lynch and Campion can also be extended to their mutual interest in loners, misfits and eccentrics, and they both treat them with piteous dignity, in much the same way photographer Diane Arbus did for her "freaks". Sweetie is similar to Eraserhead also because it's an endurance test for those who hold a high opinion of each director's later work. The fine line between pleasure and pain can be felt with great artists and their fine line between genius and crud. Campion here uses a song "Love will never let you fall" sung by Tony Backhouse and The Cafe of the Gate of Salvation Choir as a backdrop to her tale of two sisters. Campion dedicates the film to her own sister and the screenplay written by herself and Gerard Lee is based on Campion's idea, so we know this is a personal story. (Campion's sister Anna is now also a director). Campion doesn't introduce the title sister until she has established the nature of the first, Kay, but also we don't fully understand why Kay is the way she is until Sweetie arrives, and is soon followed by their father. Sweetie is a monstrous child/woman but when the arguments between sisters begin it's hard to know whose side to take, since Sweetie makes Kay just as dislikable. Perhaps because Campion knew the narrative could be reduced to the domestic struggle of those tied by blood, she employs an expressionist use of framing where the person on view is placed off centre, as well as stop motion footage of the growth of plants, a montage of the workings of Kay's mind when she attempts meditation, and a flashback to Sweetie as a childhood performer with a growling dog as audience. There are also strangely disturbing images - 2 men dancing together at a cattle station, and Sweetie bathing her father. However, like Lynch, Campion has a wicked sense of humour and the climactic incident in a tree is equally comic, tragic and metaphoric. As the sisters, Karen Colston and Genevieve Lemon are never allowed to become grotesques - they are both given touching breakdown scenes - and Campion appears to have a special gift for handling child actors, with the little boy neighbour and the girl playing Sweetie as a child at the end particularly good. And like Eraserhead, once you manage to adjust yourself to the slow rhythms and lower your too high expectations, you find that Sweetie gets better as it goes along. ... Read more

Reviews (5)

Really Good Movie!!!!
I originally saw this movie on Nickelodeon, and liked it a lot. Then, two or three years later, they played it again, and I taped it. I think this a wonderfully crafted film, with suspense, sci-fi, drama, and romance, all blended in. What more do you want? The premise is basically that, after their grandfather dies, Jada and Adam have to find their way to New Eden, the only safe place left in their polluted, poisonous, post-apocoliptic world. They, with the aide of their friends, Vike, Deke, and Lizzy, have to do this while eluding Dr. Kayo and his evil power to wipe minds. I recommend this movie to everyone--buy it!

different
I can promose that out of all of the SiFi movies you will ever see you will never see one like this with its originality geting the four stars. The acting is good, not the best that I'v seen but it is worthy. The set is intriguing, even though it changes frequently, from a dirty town over crowded with people, to a desert landscape, to a rain forest shore. The charicters are hard to believe sometimes, mainly a girl who can make fire spout from her fingers. But all in all this is a pretty good film.

Shocking
This was one of those films you find by chance and watch out of pure boredom. Most films of this description end out being absolute crap but this film had some kind of effect on me. I have no idea what it is but it keeps you on the edge of your seat and the sci-fi stuff is pretty imaginative which makes it freaky, cooky and somewhat scary in parts. I bloody well enjoyed this film and I can't seem to get it out of my head. Watch it and you'll agree.

An awesome movie to watch and buy!
Hey everyone. I found this movie by accident while fliping the channels one day. If you are into Roswell and Sci-Fi, you'll enjoy "Doom Runners". Within the movie is awesome voice overs as if your listening to someone read their journal. The key to the movie is the youth trying to find New Eden. Its an adventure that will take you for a ride. I'm sure that if you buy this movie, you'll watch it over and over again.

This is a very cool movie!!
This movie is so cool! Just the idea is so strange you can`t help but like it. To think teens could pave the way for others to follow. I think anyone would like this movie.If you like cool movies you should see this. ... Read more

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Aussie edition of 1989 soundtrack to comedy starring YahooSerious. ... Read more

Reviews (24)

Seriously Fun
Being an Aussie, I can see why old Yahoo Serious appeals to us lot and not many others. Like Vegemite, he's an acquired taste. Young Einstein might have left a bad taste in some mouths, but the soundtrack should have your ears ringing in delight. 100% playful and with some mighty tracks from The Saints and Big Pig (whatever happened to them?) and even some choice pop titbits from Paul Kelly and Icehouse. I saw this when I was barely 11 and never saw it again, but the soundtrack remains fresh and vital to this day! Invest. Now!

Worst. Movie. Ever.
There is not much more to say about this film.
It is the only movie Ive ever actually got up and walked out of in the theater.

Great music video in the movie
I thought the movie was very funny, but I that the segment with "Great Southern Land" by Icehouse counts as a great music video all by itself in the middle of the movie.

I don't know if this movie helped the band or vice versa, but Icehouse played that song at the Olympics in Australia.

And yes, the movie is silly, but fun.

can't top this
Fun, warmhearted, musical, falling-down funny- ...and 'somewhat' historical...? (Didn't Einstein try to split the beer atom?) A romp in the land down under where the forces of good (led by our hero- the true inventor of rock n roll!) save the day. Great music from bands you won't get to hear often: Icehouse, Paul Kelly, The Lime Spiders, Big Pig, and Yahoo himself.
Sit back, relax, and enjoy Yahoo Serious at his comic best.

Terrible waste of time!
The only way I could find this funny would be if I drank a lot of beer. Maybe that's why he's beloved in Australia.

It's terrible - poorly written, bad acting.

Don't waste any of your life watching this Yahoo.
Seriously. ... Read more