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I should have been an Australian....
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Australians always manage to create some of the most demented comedies I've ever seen, and "Around the World in 80 Ways" makes my list of top 10 all-time great comedies.
Wally Davis (Philip Quast), who according to his dad, has "gone funny," owns and operates a tour bus and runs a beach-front trailer/cafe shaped like a giant banana. After the trailer is repossessed, Wally heads home with the plan to raid the family savings account, but Mum, Mavis Davis (Diana Davidson) leaves for a long-desired whirlwind world tour dumping Dad, Roly Davis (Allan Penney) at the Twilight Rest Home as she heads for the airport. Wally's dad suffers from "galloping senility" thanks to a treacherous blow delivered by neighbour and former business partner Alex Moffat (Rob Steele).
As Mavis Davis departs on the budget tour that becomes the holiday package tour from hell, she is joined by the lustful Alex Moffat. Meanwhile Wally springs Dad from the rest home, but all Dad wants to do is set off in hot pursuit of his wife before the crafty Moffat steals her too.
But there's a BIG problem....no money. So Wally, and his brother, Eddy improvise. Since Dad is blind, they simply PRETEND to travel the world in pursuit of the ever-moving Mavis. Stops on the travel tour include: Hawaii, Las Vegas, Rome and Japan, and Wally creates all of these countries aided and abetted by Eddy, his sound system, Nurse Ophelia Cox, and a small army of inflatable dummies. Oh, and Wally 'borrows' Moffat's "Wedding Cake of a house" for his world tour. While Mavis is dragged across the world, she endures one miserable experience after another--while Roly Davis has the time of his life.
You have to see this film to believe it--some of the best scenes, for me at least, are in "Las Vegas" when Wally is both a chorus girl, and Elvis, and the way in which Wally creates "flights" and "airports" is brilliant, amazing, and hysterically funny. And take a good long look at the tour guide--she's looks uncannily like Hilary Clinton. If you loved "Muriel's Wedding, " or "Welcome to Woop Woop," you will enjoy this insane film too--displacedhuman |
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