neil-89611 Straight to video? Straight to the bin. I think we are over these over stereotypical Australian characterisations and this trash should be the last film of this type inflicted on the rest of civilisation. What on earth persuaded some of the lead names to even consider this tripe?

greencloudsuperhero An American miscreant flees to Australia after a number of troubles and setbacks with shady characters in New York City. In Australia, he meets a number of extremely unusual characters, which are likely the above-ground counterparts of New York City's Mole People. He winds up married to an extremely attractive but highly unusual girl, and gets to meet and live with her extended family. It's an entertaining and quirky film. If you enjoyed the American "After Hours", the German "Strange Brew", the British "Brazil", etc. you are bound to enjoy Australia's "Welcome to the Whoop-Whoop". Here in the USA we also have a place comparable to the Whoop-Whoop. It's called Albuquerque, New Mexico.

ashyrenay To really appreciate 'Welcome to Woop Woop', one has to relinquish two things: A traditional view of comedy, and any preference for politically correct representations of countries and their inhabitants. If you can do that, you are going to love this movie. Teddy is a good-looking swindler who seems to have New York conned and wired. When he loses the many expensive Australian birds (that he sells illegally) during a transaction, he takes off for Australia to follow them. All of this takes place during the credits, setting the story up to take place in Australia, where Teddy gives a ride to a gorgeous blonde. After a few days of a mini-romance, Teddy plans to drop her off and go about his business, but agrees to take her to the ocean first. It is at the beach that his companion lures Teddy into saying he loves her, and from there the plot develops into a hilarious, albeit kind of twisted, view of a tiny Australian community and their bizarre inhabitants. Welcome to Woop Woop has its funny moments, but a few dramatic ones, too. These are just dramatic enough to push the plot along but not so much as to overwhelm the comedic element. It eventually *does* become a love story, just not the unrequited one where the movie started. This aspect of the movie is incredibly well done, and isn't at all forced as love stories in black comedies often are. Welcome to Woop Woop doesn't take itself too seriously, and neither should the viewers. Its a fun, twisted comedy with unique characters and convincing actors to play them - not an Academy Award winning masterpiece. But it is definitely worth the hour and a half, and several more views, as well.

filmbforever Even out in the far reaches of country Australia only morons and half-wits talk anything like the characters in this film. These kinds of parochial insulting "parodies" of Australian life are what killed the Australian film industry. We are not a bunch of "bushies" or "surf low lives" we are, for the most part, well educated, intelligent urbane people who live on a giant dry island. Our culture is made up of British, Scottish and Irish immigrants mixed unhappily with the indigenous population and topped up with people from everywhere on earth. To try and "capture" the essence of Australians with these degrading, ill conceived attempts to pump the lowest common denominator (The Castle, Kenny, Razzle Dazzle etc) just shows how skewered the Arts are in Australia to w*nkers - it's truly f***king terrible.