In part, this is a slapstick comedy in the spirit of the silent film comedians, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges, for example. But, it's also a satire on the extreme lengths businesses sometimes resort to in order to achieve a competitive edge, as well as on the too frequent narrow- mindedness of parents and others who discourage imaginative activities in kids and others. It's also a love story between two wacky largely brainless people. Hellen Dallimore, as Sunday Valentine, is perfect as the cute cuddly moll of the boss of the egg processing plant, who discovers she has much more in common with Roger Crumpkin(Mr. Accident), despite his pathological clumsiness. North American audiences probably won't get the humor that the egg processing plant has been built in place of the famous bizarre-looking Sydney opera house, only one end of which remains to identify it. The rest of the roof has been reconstructed into several gigantic eggs that dwarf the original opera house. My favorite gag: the self-folding couch pull out bed, with occupant included.
I wish this film could be redone, making fuller use of the comedic potential of the main ingredients, deleting some scenes and aspects that are not important to the main storyline and are not humorous, and ending with a much more positive and meaningful basis of attachment between Roger and Sunday. For example, the side effects of the addictive nicotine-laced eggs could have been played up more. In addition to suddenly becoming smokers, everyone could have started chewing and spitting tobacco. The egg tycoon becomes a spittoon manufacturer, even selling several to the League against Tobacco.
Sunday Valentine mostly plays a passive role in Roger's further misadventures. She could have been characterized to provide a much more active part in the comedy. For example, she could have been obsessed with putting mechanical and electrical parts together in novel but mostly ridiculous useless contraptions. Thus, she would perfectly complement Roger's "Obsessive Compulsive Dismanting Fixation", and thus provide some real glue for their relationship. Eventually, she comes up with a really important invention that provides a happy ending for the story. This could be tied to the flying saucer-hub cap aspect of the story, which is left rather undeveloped, despite its repeated appearance from time to time. For example, little green men in a saucer could land, looking for their lost hub cap for their landing gear. They find it as a crucial part of a frictionless perpetual motion dynamo designed by Sunday that is supplying electricity for the egg plant. Engineers can't duplicate this wondrous source of unlimited energy because the hubcap is made of a metal not found on earth, and other metals don't work. The space visitors sample some of the nicotine-laced eggs, making them feel euphoric. They want lots more eggs. Roger offers to trade eggs for more hub caps so they can be used to light the whole city. The aliens agree and fly off with the promise to bring more hub caps for more eggs. Meanwhile the FDA has banned the sale of the plant's nicotine-laced eggs. Thus, the trade of these eggs for alien hub caps also saves the egg company from bankruptcy. Any takers?
I wish this film could be redone, making fuller use of the comedic potential of the main ingredients, deleting some scenes and aspects that are not important to the main storyline and are not humorous, and ending with a much more positive and meaningful basis of attachment between Roger and Sunday. For example, the side effects of the addictive nicotine-laced eggs could have been played up more. In addition to suddenly becoming smokers, everyone could have started chewing and spitting tobacco. The egg tycoon becomes a spittoon manufacturer, even selling several to the League against Tobacco.
Sunday Valentine mostly plays a passive role in Roger's further misadventures. She could have been characterized to provide a much more active part in the comedy. For example, she could have been obsessed with putting mechanical and electrical parts together in novel but mostly ridiculous useless contraptions. Thus, she would perfectly complement Roger's "Obsessive Compulsive Dismanting Fixation", and thus provide some real glue for their relationship. Eventually, she comes up with a really important invention that provides a happy ending for the story. This could be tied to the flying saucer-hub cap aspect of the story, which is left rather undeveloped, despite its repeated appearance from time to time. For example, little green men in a saucer could land, looking for their lost hub cap for their landing gear. They find it as a crucial part of a frictionless perpetual motion dynamo designed by Sunday that is supplying electricity for the egg plant. Engineers can't duplicate this wondrous source of unlimited energy because the hubcap is made of a metal not found on earth, and other metals don't work. The space visitors sample some of the nicotine-laced eggs, making them feel euphoric. They want lots more eggs. Roger offers to trade eggs for more hub caps so they can be used to light the whole city. The aliens agree and fly off with the promise to bring more hub caps for more eggs. Meanwhile the FDA has banned the sale of the plant's nicotine-laced eggs. Thus, the trade of these eggs for alien hub caps also saves the egg company from bankruptcy. Any takers?