Siam Sunset

Rating:
Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: Having lived in Australia for a year, I got a chance to see this there a few years back. Absolutely Hilarious! The bus driver with his "It's the one rule we do have!" Too funny.

I won't spoil the plot, but you just have to see the love scene! By far the funniest I have ever seen. I couldn't stop laughing!

If you like the offbeat, you will love Siam Sunset. Good to see it finally available.

Rating:
Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: Having lived in Australia for a year, I got a chance to see this there a few years back. Absolutely Hilarious! The bus driver with his "It's the one rule we do have!" Too funny.

I won't spoil the plot, but you just have to see the love scene! By far the funniest I have ever seen. I couldn't stop laughing!

If you like the offbeat, you will love Siam Sunset. Good to see it finally available.

Rating:
Summary: Good Stuff!
Review: I have to see films more than once...twice is about my limit, but this Australia comedy is absolutely histerical. If you have ever been on a tour bus...this will get your laugh lines more pronounced. It is wonderful what films you can make WITHOUT much in the way of special effects. The things that happen...

I have been dying to get my hands on a copy to show my US friends...now if they could only put THE MAN WHO SUED GOD on Region 1 DVD!!!

Enjoy...

Rating:
Summary: If you have ever been a tourist on a bus tour
Review: I have to see films more than once...twice is about my limit, but this Australia comedy is absolutely histerical. If you have ever been on a tour bus...this will get your laugh lines more pronounced. It is wonderful what films you can make WITHOUT much in the way of special effects. The things that happen...

I have been dying to get my hands on a copy to show my US friends...now if they could only put THE MAN WHO SUED GOD on Region 1 DVD!!!

Enjoy...

Rating:
Summary: Very enjoyable, with surprises.
Review: I recommend this highly. Very clever, funny - well done! (I won't go into plot details - others have, already.) (Some reviewers here should be SHOT for giving away the important plot details!)

The reviewers who have told the plot details should have their reviews REMOVED by Amazon. Reviewers who give away plot details should not be allowed to write comments/reviews on Amazon. They ruin the film for others, by telling too much.

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Summary: A quirky tragic-comic romance adventure in the outback
Review: This is too odd a movie to classify into a clear-cut genre. It begins with the tragic end to the otherwise perfect life of a young English couple who are mutually adoring. A refrigerator suddenly falls out of a cargo plane, killing the lovely wife of the main character who is joyfully frolicking with her on the front lawn. Perry, a British chemist, becomes convinced that he is carrying a curse because his wife's freakish death is followed by several other bizarre accidents which befall his friends and colleagues.

Beset by grief, Perry is finally persuaded to leave England after he wins a free trip to Australia. The movie mainly plays out in remote roadhouse stops in the outback as he travels in a ramshackle bus with a motley and generally moronic tour group from Adelaide to Darwin. He meets lovely Grace who is fleeing her psychopath drug-peddling boyfriend who eventually catches up with Perry and Grace, providing the movie with a villain.

While Perry remains haunted by the curse he believe he carries, more freakish accidents befall the tour group, including an earthquake during an overnight camping stop, and Grace's car breakdown which leads her to flag down the tour bus. The outback setting also becomes the perfect background for some split-second and very odd scenes - including that of a Japanese tourist and a corpulent Australian lady traipsing nude in the sand, and the bloodied body of the proprietor of a butterfly farm dangling from the ceiling. These seemingly unconnected scenes are interspersed with Perry's obsessive quest for a paint color called Siam Sunset which he likens to a sunset he saw with his now deceased wife in Thailand.

This movie is a curious mixture of comedy, tragedy, romance and adventure. Perry and Grace's hurried lovemaking scene in the gritty roadhouse motel room comes with crashing wallboards, collapsing fans, and fusing lights bulbs. Grace's villanous psychopathic ex-boyfriend suffers third degree burns because of his untimely exit from the tour bus after it crashes, tips over, and bursts into flames. But his incapacitated state does not stop him later from going on a rampage in which he ends up pointing a gun into Perry's head, only to himself end up impaled on a coat hook.

It would be a pity to divulge the rest. In the end, what seems to keeps you hanging on however are not these gimmicky scenes, but the life-size characters who move the movie along.

It takes Australian charm to put all these elements together into a single movie!