Mr. Accident
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Movie Reviews of Mr. Accident
Movie Review: Great potential, only partially realized
Summary: 4 Stars
In part, this film is a slapstick comedy in the spirit of the classic silent comedies, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges, for example. But, it's also a satire on the extreme lengths businesses sometimes resort to to increase their sales, as well as on the too frequent narrow mindedness of parents and others in discouraging imaginative activities in kids and adults. It's also a love story between two wacky, largely brainless, people. Hellen Dallimore, as Sunday Valentine, is perfect as the cute cuddly moll of the boss of the egg processing plant, who discovers she has much more in common with Roger Crumpkin, Mr. Accident, despite his pathological clumsiness and Obsessive Compulsive Dismantling Fixation. North American audiences probably won't get the humour that the egg processing plant has been built in place of the famous bizarre-looking Sydney opera house, only one end of which remains to identify it. The rest of the roof has been reconstructed into several gigantic eggs that dwarf the original opera house. My favorite gag: the self-folding pull out couch bed, with occupant included.
I wish this film could be redone, making fuller use of the comedic potential of the main ingredients, deleting scenes that are not important to the main story line or not funny, and ending with a much more meaningful basis of attachment between Roger and Sunday. For example, the side effects of the addictive nicotine-laced eggs could have been played up more. In addition to suddenly becoming smokers, everyone could have started chewing and spitting tobacco. The egg tycoon suddenly becomes a spitton manufacturer, even selling several to the League Against Tobacco.
Sunday Valentine mostly plays a passive role in Roger's furthur misadventures. She could have played a much more active role in the comedy in the later part of the film. For example, she could have been obsessed with putting mechanical and electrical parts together in novel, but mostly ridiculous, contraptions. Thus, she would perfectly complement Roger, with his Obsessive Compulsive Dismantling Fixation and provide some real glue for their relationship. Eventually, she would come up with an important invention, using parts dismantled by Roger, that provides a happy ending. This could be tied into the flying saucer-hub cap aspect of the story, which is left rather undeveloped, despite its repeated appearance from time to time. For example, little green men from a Jupiter moon could have landed looking for their lost hub cap for their landing gear. They find it as a crucial part of a pertutual motion dynamo designed by Sunday that is supplying electricity for the egg plant. Engineers can't duplicate this invention because the hub cap is made of a metal that doesn't exist on earth. The space visitors sample some of the eggs while recovering their hub cap, making them feel euphoric. They want lots more eggs. Roger and Sunday offer to trade eggs for more hub caps and they agree. These are used to light up the whole city. The aliens fly off to bring back more hub caps, to light up the whole country. Meanwhile, the FDA has banned the sale of the nicotine-laced eggs. Thus, the trade of such eggs for hub caps also saves the egg company from bankrupcy. Any takers?
Movie Review: Don't take it seriously and you'll have more fun.
Summary: 4 Stars
You have to know when you're going into a Yahoo Serious comedy that you're going to get some really goofy stuff. Even the more subtle social satire that he loves to weave into his movies can go unoticed by some people, or get lost in the silly antics of the physical comedy. But, I still find his stuff entertaining and his somewhat "stupid" plots that stretch the imagination are actually refreshing over much of the predictable Hollywood stuff these days. Who would have thought of an evil CEO putting tobacco in chicken feed in order to get people addicted to eggs?!? Well, Yahoo did, and it's fun to see how he plays it out in his own quirky way. Love it, hate it, just don't take it too seriously and you might have a lot of fun...Movie Review: Insanity
Summary: 4 Stars
Probably one of the most demented comedy films I've seen to date! Style of slapstick, obvious humor reminded me of the old "Ernest" movies I loved as a child.Movie Review: Not really sure yet
Summary: 3 Stars
I have learned that with Yahoo Serious you need to be patient. Sometimes it takes a while to get the humor behind what he is doing as was the case with his last film Reckless Kelly. The first time I watched it I don't think I laughed more than once but over the next few years I watched it again and again (because I really liked his first movie Young Einstien) and it grew on me more and more. Now it is one of my favorite movies. Well with this one (Mr. Accident) I can't really say if I like it yet but the first and only time I watched it I only laughed a few times. Perhaps I should have waited to write this review. Maybe I can update it in two years...?Movie Review: Very funny british comedy
Summary: 3 Stars
This is off the wall ramdom slapstick humor. You have to know when you're going into a Yahoo Serious comedy that you're going to get some really goofy stuff. Even the more subtle social satire that he loves to weave into his movies can go unoticed by some people, or get lost in the silly antics of the physical comedy. If you like british humor, this is a must see. I enjoyed it, but remember DON'T TAKE IT SERIOUSLY! If you do that, you will enjoy this hilarious movie!