The Emu War

To my utter shame I managed to watch for ten minutes. I can only hope all those involved in the making of this, Trump of a movie, can find gainful employment elsewhere. It's so bad I thought it was a sequel to Pearl Harbour (2001). It really needs a health warning!

Did you consult Mother Theresa by medium for military advice? Has your Emu advisor seen any animal... ever? In the world? Pictures of animals? The only thing that could be called half decent was the wobble-board player. He'll go far.... further the better, to distance himself from the trauma of having participated.

You took a really funny story and killed it, with less mercy than the real thing. Worst idea since Dame Edna Everidge failed to replace Sean Connery as James Bond.

Now, with products like this hitting screens IMDB needs to introduce negative ratings.

This appalling, cheap, nasty and uselessly abysmal attempt at a film needs to be called out for what it is.

Absolute trash, a massive embarrasment and major cringe for the Australian movie industry.

It really is that bad... A pathetic, misfiring attempt at cross referencing Australian historical figures into a "humerous" reimagining of the Emu Wars, (an actual thing in Australian history), however it is extrely likely that everyone involved in this disgraceful rubbish will be drawing their dole cheques from Centrelink for the forseeable future.

An embarassment to Australian movie making that hopefully will die and rot under a rock sooner rather than later.

Don't encourage them, avoid like the plague.

Firstly, what the hell is Screen Australia doing funding absolute garbage such as this when much better quality films and genuine filmmakers cannot even get a meeting with them. This tripe is a blight on the Australian film industry and an insult to every other Australian filmmaker who busts their arses to try and get funding.

To the guys who made this film, stick to what you know, because filmmaking isn't it.

And to those who gave glowing reviews, I can only believe they are associated with the film or filmmakers.

Production values were so non existent that I've seen better offers from a Year 10 media class.

Avoid this at all costs.

Finally someone is making some edgy, brave comedy in Australia that is unique and entertaining. It's completely bonkers. The "outer body experience" scene towards the end makes cinema history in what I'm sure is the most jaw-dropping "gag" in modern film. The Emu War is fun and wacky and unexpected at pretty much every turn. It's not daggy, has its tongue in its cheek and reflects a head-space in this country that some are shy to acknowledge. But not these film makers, they're hilarious and they've made a wacky film that is satirical enough to be relevant. I saw it in a cinema full of belly laughs the whole way through. Hopefully you have the same experience.

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!