Welcome to episode 38. Today, we discuss the dumb late 80′s Australian comedy, “Young Einstein”.
Not familiar with the movie? Take a look at IMDB for more information.
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Up next episode? The 80′s teen classic, The Breakfast Club.
This whole movie was a terrible way to spend an hour and half. Not one time did I laugh or even crack a smile. Holy Mother of God, this movie was bad.
Hey guys,
I can’t believe that Ibbit thought The Gods Must Be Crazy was Australian and nobody picked him up on it – it is South African, proudly so (and a really great movie).
As an Australian, I can tell you the whole Yahoo Serious craze was pretty much restricted to North America. Australians were waiting for him to go away and stop embarrassing them on the international stage. Trust me, we didn’t get the “jokes” much either.
If you want to see a great comedy for Australian looking at their own culture, watch The Castle. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118826/
I am a 40yo Australian male who remembers when this came out. There was some hype (enough that a couple of us went to the cinema to see it) and I am happy to report that I agree 100% with what was said in the podcast!
After we stumbled out of the cinema we all punched-crap out of the person who suggested we go see it. Total steaming pile of Tassie Devil Feces!
Jake: “As an Australian, I can tell you the whole Yahoo Serious craze was pretty much restricted to North America. Australians were waiting for him to go away and stop embarrassing them on the international stage. Trust me, we didn’t get the “jokes” much either.”
As as Australian I completely agree with you. Seriously is embarrassing.
Adam
I liked the reading of the reviews it should be a permanent segment to the podcast, especially the strange disagreeable reviews.
I applaud you guys on watching this whole movie. I made it to the shmoozy guy slobbering over Madam Curie’s hand then I had to quit. Pardon me Mr. Brian but Minority Report was an awesome movie and not like this at all
For movies like this, that I saw a long time ago, I often wonder if it’s better to go refresh my memory of the movie and then take in the podcast, or just listen to the podcast and compare it to what I remember. In this case, I remember the movie was goofy fun, but strictly by my 1980s, taped-off-of-cable standards. I’ll take in the podcast with much glee, since I don’t think there is any movie that the Sackers can’t have a great conversation about. But as for watching this movie again? I think I’d rather revisit the first 20 minutes of “Duck, You Sucker,” with all of its cringeworthy pee-foam and twig-and-berries reveals.
I didn’t even bother watching this one, because I can remember this being one of the few movies I’ve ever walked out of, I just couldn’t find the patience for it.
Stream of consciousness comment:
- This film was so bad it made me feel like I’m from another planet, or that Yahoo Serious is. Too many “WTF?” moments to mention.
- The Gods Must Be Crazy 2 is a good movie. Shut up, it is!
- 38 minutes and 22 seconds before Scott mentioned man ass. That’s amazing.
- The asylum sequence was its own film. Or it might’ve worked better as a play, like Steve Martin’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” which wisely had no depiction of kitten pie.
- Principal Ed Rooney said “So THAT’s how it is in their family” to a fake incestuous kiss two years before Young Einstein had “Their family is very close.” Hmmm….
- Hot air balloon with a cork. Sorry, science criticism.
- Black face? Is black makeup to represent having been in an explosion worse than having an aborigine teach you how to imitate a kangaroo?
- Darwin’s dog….apples…croissants…ack.
- That’s it. I can’t go on.
- Kitten pie.
@ Gretchen –
- Tazmanian Devils = Ewok muppets?
- Darwin died in 1882; how was he alive in 1906?
- Improvised electric violin = keyboard/guitar/all-inclusive band?
- I wanted to punch the mother in the face when she was dancing to his music at the end
- He invented the surfboard, the only PRACTICAL invention, and he let’s it drift out to sea?
- Where do apple farmers get the money to travel to the mainland AND Paris?
- Playing hop-scotch like a maniac led to the invention of “Roll and Rock”
- That man scrubbed his ass way over the acceptable limit
- Insane Asylum doctors use axes to prevent patients from escaping
- You can apparently split an atom with a chisel
- Being in the electric chair must make you turn red, melt your shoes AND make your hand stand up
- It will not kill you, however
Fun fact — Yahoo Serious attempted to sue Yahoo! (search engine) in 2000.
This guy is a waste of space.
*Yahoo (born Greg Pead) has always been a national embarrassment.
*He still honestly believes he is Australia’s great cinematic “auteur”.
*And he believed the film had an important political (anti nuclear) message. He even got Amnesty International to host its Gala Premiere which I attended. The people sitting next to me where the only ones laughing. At the end the told me they were Yahoo’s relatives.
*He never was an established “comedian” – and the one skill he seems to display in the film (music) is bogus. His songs are in fact performed by the Aussie band Mental As Anything and he mimes the guitar and vocals.
*He actually spent years making Young Einstein: the reason why it feels like a series of sketches is because that’s how it was made. Each time someone gave Greg a bit more money he’d create a new sequence for the movie.
*After he featured on the cover of Time, a famous Australian magazine The Bulletin listed him as one of “Australia’s 100 Most Appalling People” writing “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Can’t dance. And doesn’t get much change out of 40″. (He was 35 when the movie came out).
*The two films he’s made since – Reckless Kelly (’95) and Mr Accident (2000) – are even worse! And now he’s planning to make Number 4: a comedy about Australian soldiers in WW1.
(That’s sure to be a laugh riot!).
*As for him trying to sue Yahoo for stealing his name he actually stole it himself. In Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels there is a land of bestial creatures called Yahoos. This was a reference to the newly discovered country called Australia.
*I propose a national exchange: we’ll take both Pauly Shore and Carrot Top if the USA accepts Yahoo as a citizen.
Love the show, but come on – right after South Africa gets raped by Australia in the rugby, you guys give them The Gods Must be Crazy. I am going to curl up cry for a bit…
Thank you, Scott Johnson as Pixar and man-ass were not two words I would of associated together…ever.
I was 16 when this movie came out. I never went to see it because it was bad then and it’s worse now. Randy Jordan is right, there was nothing about this movie that made it watchable for Australians, it’s just a bad film. Loved that fact that Brian Ibbit appreciated the 80′s Aussie bands – sound track to my life!
Just to be contrary, I’ll tell you why I like this movie
1. It’s a B-movie and I like B-movies
2. almost every gag in the movie was lifted from loony toons
3. I enjoy wierd and bizarre things and this movie definitely qualifies
4. It has a good soundtrack
I think frogpants resents this movie because he fell for all the hype during his leather jacket youth.
I guess I’m in the extreme minority for enjoying this, but at least I didn’t come away having wasted 90 minutes.
I think a lot of my ability to like it came from the childlike innocence of Einstein’s character and the whole story being perceived through his eyes. It’s kind of like the webcomic Axe Cop in that way; it doesn’t really make any sense but is quirky and looks good.
I have a place in my heart for this embarrassment of a film.
First off, I was 7 or 8 when it came out, I was entertained by it. You guys being about 10 years older than me, I can see why the movie has and always will be entirely terrible. It’d be like if I had to review “Shazam” or whatever other horrible 90′s kids movie that I would’ve hated watching as a teenager.
It wasn’t actually filmed in Tasmania, my Aunt owns the land it was filmed on at the start. The house is in New South Wales, Blue Mountains (just out of Sydney)
Scott said he loves Bill Nye, but did he mean Bill Nighty from Shawn of the Dead, Underworld and the Pirates of Carribean trilogy (2 and 3)
Young Einstein sounds pretty bad.
I’m currently watching Demolition Man. Doesn’t quite hold up, but not horrible. May be good for a future Film Sack.
Mel Gibson – was born in the US, his father came to Australia to avoid the draft.
Doro626: He did mean that guy, I think, except his last name is spelled ‘Nighy’ at least according to imdb.
Also, I do agree with the awesomeness of Bill Nighy.
Pffft you all missed the point about this movie,
it’s all about the beer
I agree with all of the above, as a proud australian there are aussie movies i would bag, very few. This is an exception. I wont rehash the accurate comments above however i suggest you review some otehr classics ie: “the man from hong kong” “razor back” are just 2 80′s titles that come to mind. They are crappy but they are ours.
In closing, your podcast has changed my life, im no longer the man with the vacant stare travelling on the train home from work, im now the wierd dude sniggering and cacking on the train that no one sits with on the train.
Up the Cronulla Sharks!!