Strong and Moving!

Good movie but grossly overrated

Beautiful, moving film.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I watched Bad Eggs with the preconception that it was a mix of serious cop drama and comedy. After watching The Late Show and listening to Martin/Molloy, Tony Martin has come to my attention again through his return to the airwaves on MMM. I am catching up on the self-confessed movie buff's interim works by watching Bad Eggs and reading his book Lolly Scramble.Bob Franklin and Mick Molloy didn't strike me as the two best leading actors for a film, but they perform respectably within the low budget Australian comedy format. The comedy and drama are better integrated than I was expecting, Bad Eggs is basically a tale of two detectives with a capacity for ineptness and clumsiness, who get mixed up in corruption in their own department, the fictional Zero Tolerance Unit of Victoria. There probably actually are individual agencies like this now with a similar lack of transparency, with ASIO recently being expanded and given increased powers. The film gets serious when the two detectives get deeper and deeper in the poo, but the comedic elements return when they strike back with the help of Northey, played by Alan Borough. On the whole Bad Eggs is akin to a film like True Lies on the comedy scale, it is primarily a drama with comedy arising from storyline elements rather than from deliberately inserted jokes. It never manages to excel in any particular area but what was achieved was a film with a professional look, a storyline that maintains interest for the first 90 minutes, and a cast of fairly decent Australian actors and comedians.

I saw this movie for the first time last night, and thought that it was a great movie, mostly for Bob Franklin, completely for the story, and not at all for Mick Molloy. While I think Mick Molloy is a great guy, funny and stuff on the radio and "The Panel" talkshow etc, this was the first time I'd seen him in a movie...and well, he sucked arse. Judith Lucy annoys me as it is, so I shan't go further with that. Apart from them, I love the movie. It had a good plot, great gag lines etc. I noticed that every foreign country review I've read for it blasted the movie out of the water....I think this may be because while it isn't a "typical Aussie comedy" like say, The Castle, alot of the jokes and most of the plot contain(s) elements that non-Australians just don't get...namely our accent. But nuts to all the Americans etc who hate our accents. Anyway, two thumbs up for the movie!

Who would have thought that Tony Martin, the director of this crass witless "comedy" was once a member of the fabulous D Generation comedy team? To say the plot is threadbare and ill thought out would be an understatement - nothing gels together and apart from a few hackneyed set pieces, this film reeks of desperation. Boys, you might get a few cheap laughs from the easily pleased, but for those people with a modicum of understanding of humour and screenplay development, this is a shoddy pitiful attempt at a comedy.

Just saw "Bad Eggs". It was a refreshing movie, (Compared to other Australian attempts at movie making) and the opening shots of the car "driven" by a dead person had the whole cinema laughing their guts out. You are watching wondering till almost the very end as to "who done it", some new actors, and some that that have probably been in every Aussie movie made...Well worth watching, 7 out of 10 :)