Review of Welcome to Woop Woop (1998) by Adrian D — 16 Sep 2010

This is one of Australia's worst movies. Jonathan Schaech is unconvincing as the lead. He fails to give a sympathetic portrayal of Ted, the movie's anti-hero. This failure makes it difficult to support the main character.

Most of the supporting cast over-acted, especially Rod Taylor and Susie Porter. Rod Taylor tries to hard as Daddy-O, Woop Woop's self-appointed dictator. His character shows no signs of being intimidating. Susie Porter really goes overboard as the promiscuous Angie. Porter acts like a nerd trying too hard not to be.

Michael Thomas and Stephan Elliott have written a pretty lame screenplay. None of the "humour" hits the bullseye, let alone the target. The lack of laughs means that vileness of the movie is unredeemable.

Director Stephan Elliott did some okay work with the Australian outback but other than that he has done terribly. The movie's pace is so slow that makes the movie's unpleasantness even more intolerable.

Please avoid this piece of trash, even on cheap Tuesdays.