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Mr Accident

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It's a trip.

Roger Crumpkin (Yahoo Serious) is Earth's most accident-prone human being. A maintenance man at the spectacular "Sydney Egg House", he scrambles everything, from eggs to relationships. Cheerful incompetence belies the loneliness and isolation of Roger Crumpkin - a disturbing symbol of 21st century urban man. He is intimidated by everything from the opposite sex to his cantankerous toaster. Roger's "obsessive-compulsive dismantling fixation" has dominated his life since childhood. As a result of his family's violent rejection of his creative mind he "never used his imagination again". Roger's obsession for dismantling domestic appliances is a metaphor for his life, which is "rapidly and tragically falling apart" according to his only friend Lyndon (Grant Piro).

Sunday Valentine (Helen Dallimore) is a chicken sexer from a Bucket Flats egg farm who is forced to crash at the apartment of her neurotic friend, police officer Rikki Rogerson (Jeanette Cronin). Lonely, Sunday dreams that one day she will discover proof that we're not alone in the universe. Her maniacally jealous boyfriend, ex-tobacco company executive Duxton Chevalier (David Field), extorts his way into controlling his brother's (Garry McDonald) egg factory.

When eccentric Roger unearths a mysterious "hubcap", buried for millions of years then accidentally falls for Sunday Valentine, these two shy, innocent misfits are catapulted into a romantic adventure of epic mishaps. Have two of the dumbest people on Earth unlocked the secret to finding intelligent life in space?

Enigmatic Chevalier instigates an ingenious scheme which threatens chickens world-wide then turns his unpredictable psychotic bent on destroying Sunday. While his relationship with Sunday is "going through a rough patch", pathetic Roger realises he must somehow quit smoking and overthrow Chevalier's insidious plans.

Mr Accident is a satirical, romantic rocket ride through the lives of a bunch of losers hurtling into the chaos that is contemporary life. It's a circus of cool catastrophes underpinned by a moral tale about the downside of addiction and corporate globalisation. It's a trip!

Also starring Peanut. Written by David Roach and Yahoo Serious, directed by Yahoo Serious.

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Mr Accident picks up on the great Australian tradition of low-brow slapstick humour with a dark edge. Like Crackers and many others before it, this film takes a laugh wherever it can find one. That's the downside. You will spend a significant amount of viewing time rolling your eyes and shaking your head. On the upside, Mr Accident is not an American film, so there doesn't have to be a happy ending for everyone and the goldfish is allowed to die. Yes, the goldfish goes to meet its maker. It's not as classic as the canine barbie in Crackers, but it's still a great laugh.

There're also a heap of double entendres, some lifted straight from pantomime, others of a more modern variety. If nothing else, you need to see the film for the "country girl" line. You'll know it when it whips past you like a bus on a rainy night.

David's evil brother is a bit too much the evil brother; even with the many attempts at humanising him (girl troubles, etc.) he's still pretty two-dimensional. Not that any of the characters are models of profundity, mind you. this is definitely a film to watch and laugh at, kind of like Australias' funniest home homicides. Yahoo's comic sensibility encompasses both the physical and the mental. He takes them to their extremes then brings them all the way back again. Helen is ditzy blonde to a T and chicken sexer extraordinaire. Jeanette does the most wonderful victim of humour you have ever seen. It's a brave actor who can face the things she does and then let someone capture it on film!

That's enough for this review because I want to go and brush my teeth (having just finished a great big bowl of porridge with dried apricots, raisins, cinnamon, ground ginger and honey). Any Aussie will enjoy Mr Accident, just remember that it isn't Shakespeare (or even Men in tights).