Juvenile, pathetic and not funny
I agree with the comments made by reddfivepublishing, which I now summarise, as I could not improve upon them. 100% spot on!
- I sat at the back of the cinema waiting for the film to find a rhythm to its madness or a single joke that landed, and it never happened.
- one of the most fundamentally lazily written films I've seen in a very long time.
- The entirety of The Emu War is the same joke repeated again and again "let's tell an unintentionally unfunny gag which is so dumb and lowbrow that the audience will appreciate the irony".
- despite the sincere efforts of the filmmakers, it seems like an improv comedy group decided to frantically pull out the most juvenile gags they could and stuffed it onto the page.
- The Emu War doesn't have a script. It doesn't have a story.
- It has and endless surplus of dialogue which the filmmakers seem to think are jokes, many of which are flashbacks seemingly designed to distract from the fact that the story is absent and bereft of movement. I could forgive this if the movie was funny because it aspires to be a comedy more than anything, but I couldn't find a single good thing to write about.
- To its credit, the visual effects in The Emu War are pretty decent.
- And the cast give it a very sincere effort, even if the material they're working with isn't pristine.
- films typically have narrative, script and storytelling etiquette to go with them. Those are three things, among many, many others, which are completely absent from The Emu War.
- it's a silly little film made by a bunch of people who just wanted to have a good time, but I didn't have anything close to a good time watching it.
- All I could say was "Gallipoli was funnier".
The only other reviewer (roddraper-227-22177) must be associated with the film or the filmmakers to have given it a 9 out of 10.
75 minutes of my life wasted that I can never get back. You have been warned!
