I love this movie so much

Highly Overrated But Still Good

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I can understand how non-Australians might not get "Welcome to Woop Woop". As an Aussie, I don't get it either.Australian cinema has produced some off-the-wall comedies over the years, but this one is in a league of its own. Teddy (Johnathon Schaech), an American rare bird smuggler on the run ends up in the Australian outback. He meets Angie (Susie Porter), a sexually veracious girl who drugs him and takes him to her community in the ex-asbestos mining town of Woop Woop run by her father Daddy-O (Rod Taylor).Teddy wakes up to find he is married to Angie. He gets caught up in the weird lifestyle of the isolated community whose only source of entertainment and connection to culture is old videos of Rogers and Hammerstein musicals - a little like "Galaxy Quest" where the alien Thermians only understand human behaviour through the signals they have received of old television shows.Along with the most strident of Australian accents, the changes of mood in the film are bewildering - singing, dancing and fornicating one minute and shooting dogs the next. This slice of Australiana makes the characters in "Wake in Fright" seem like Oxford dons.I only saw "Woop Woop" recently (2015) when it appeared on "World Movies" about the same time as a documentary called "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!" Apparently Quentin Tarantino championed the documentary and I must admit it was more entertaining than most of the films it featured, including "Welcome to Woop Woop"The cast gave it everything they had, and seemed to be in on the joke. Rod Taylor has one great scene where he does an electric tap dance to "Shall We Dance" on the bar with leads on his shoes connected to a battery. But as far as I'm concerned these were the only sparks generated in the film.Stephen Elliott had made "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" the year before. "Priscilla" was outrageous with souvenirs of ABBA, ping-pong balls etc. - but it was funny. "Welcome to Woop Woop" is outrageous and tedious. Would I recommend the film? Well that all depends on what you like. Some people relish a good bad movie. By bad, I don't mean poor editing or shoddy sound, far from it, "Woop Woop" is polished as far as production values are concerned - I mean bad in concept. It has a certain cult following, but that's one cult I managed to escape.

This is a movie that celebrates the bizarre. It has a decent main story to hold a few sub plots and a whole lot of strange together. This movie is not for the prudish or faint of heart as crude jokes about or references to incest, masturbation, sex organs, and coitus abound.But if you like me revel in the crude, Welcome this film takes you to fantastical place, and introduces you to a community of what can best be described as Aussie white trash, surviving in an outback village unlike anything you've ever imagined.If I had to compare this movie to other existing works Id say its kinda like Lost meets the Road Warrior if Trey Parker and Matt Stone had written it.

I remember seen this horrific film in New York at a screening for the press. After about 30 minutes I was in pain, I had contortions all over my body, the garbage that was shown on the screen was making me puke, people around me were also in disgust. Now, this coming from the director of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, was really surprising. What's with the police shooting at birds? Is that supposed to be funny? What about all the trashing of Australian culture? Was the director on a bad trip? Oh man, I feel sorry for actors like Rod Taylor ending up in this awful mess, very embarrassing... Do yourself a favor, do not even think of watching this "movie" without first getting very drunk or stoned. Otherwise drink a lot of Pepto Bismol.

I just saw the movie (between 1.40 and 3.10 a.m.) as it was broad casted on Dutch television (SBS6). Weird, entertaining, funny and quite philosophic; especially at this hour of the night ;-). I was very surprised to find only really BAD reviews of Woop Woop at the internet. It seems my choice in movies/books etc is not the mass-opinion.This Monday I'm buying it, it's at least number 6 in my 'all time favourites' list :-) 'The usual suspects' & 'Lost boys' are some other examples of great movies (I think) and those are (in average) really well reviewed, so it's not that I only like weird ones. Go see Woop Woop! It's fun ;-)