Les Patterson rettet die Welt

Originaltitel: Les Patterson Saves the World

1987
R
1 Std. 38 Min.

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Les Patterson Saves The World: Sobering Up ansehen

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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuA boozy Australian diplomat's disastrous UN appearance lands him in the Middle East, where he stumbles into a KGB bioweapon. With help from Dame Edna, this perpetually drunk mess might accid... Alles lesenA boozy Australian diplomat's disastrous UN appearance lands him in the Middle East, where he stumbles into a KGB bioweapon. With help from Dame Edna, this perpetually drunk mess might accidentally become the world's unlikeliest hero.A boozy Australian diplomat's disastrous UN appearance lands him in the Middle East, where he stumbles into a KGB bioweapon. With help from Dame Edna, this perpetually drunk mess might accidentally become the world's unlikeliest hero.

Regie
- George Miller
Drehbuch
- Barry Humphries
- Diane Millstead
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

4,8/10

383

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- George Miller
Drehbuch
- Barry Humphries
- Diane Millstead
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Videos1

Clip 2:56

Les Patterson Saves The World: Sobering Up

Fotos10

Benutzerrezensionen21

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9The_Great_Cornholio

Classic Patterson!

Perhaps not our finest export, but definitely an 80s export, and ranking just ahead of Beavis and Butthead do America as my favorite dirty, gross-out movie of all time. This film is a rare little gem for all Patterson/Humphries fans, a must-have in the video cabinet of any collector. Humphries, true to his style, plays Australian diplomat and head of the Australian Cheese Board Sir Leslie Colin Patterson as well as the inimitable Dame Edna Everage, British Megastar. Involved is a plot to assassinate Sir Les, unleash a grotesque social disease with an even more grotesque name on the West by a Russian agent, and a coup in a financially and strategically important Middle Eastern country. Add Joan Rivers as the US President and you have the makings of a cult classic. But you need to be in the right mood! (Remember, Valium isn't a drug, it's a food, in tablet form!) I enjoyed the locations, filmed on location in Morocco and New York, giving the film an international feel even if it wasn't appreciated overseas. I guess you need to know Sir Les to appreciate this film, and likewise you have to like Sir Les to like it too.

stephmcd

This should probably be in the "trivia" bit, but I can't find how to get there...

The scene in the revolving restaurant of the Sydney Tower comes a full ten years after The Goodies did it in the "Alternative Roots" episode (1977). Graeme Tim and Bill (in their ancestral guises of Celtic Kilty, County Cutie and Kinda Kinky) have been kidnapped by an unscrupulous tour leader who is taking them on a whirlwind tourist tour of London. He forces them up to the revolving restaurant of the Post Office tower (the same one that Twinkle the giant kitten famously toppled). The restaurant spins faster and faster until all the diners are stuck to the windows via centrifugal force. This scene is of course considerably shorter and less expensive than the one set in the Sydney Tower in Les Patterson Saves the World, but no doubt both sequences derive from a universal and visceral mistrust of revolving restaurants.

6otis-bogle

Creaky plot, not enough Sir Les - but still worth watching

Doctor Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KBE is one of the greatest comedy creations ever. Barry Humphries only rarely gives him an outing so it is a shame that this film is so average (or should that be everage ?). Perhaps he hoped for a greater appeal by including Dame Edna Everage but 'she' gets too much time. Nevertheless, this 'fillum' is still a very funny in places and is a must for all admirers of Sir Les.

Anyone who wants to see this character in full flow should track down the video or soundtrack of "Les Patterson has a stand-up" which was a live show in London in 1997. In 1985 Sir Les also wrote the funniest book ever - it's called "The Traveller's Tool".

edgeofreality

Windbags get theirs

Film peaks in first 10 minutes when Sir Les gives UN leaders precisely what they deserve. Overlong action scenes in Middle East seem incongruous and it needed more wit and less budget. Also more screen time to other Australian comedians - Graham Kennedy just has one scene. But still worth watching as the kind of film that wouldn't get past our baby fascist PC mentality in Australia today.

9bobdownunder

When Australia was still fun

Sir Les Patterson as all Brits know represents Australians perfectly, well he did before they all came down with a nasty dose of PC and lost their sense of humour.

A classic movie with Sir Les and Dame Edna at their best.

A very enjoyable watch, brought a smile to my face and made me long for simpler times.

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Barry Humphries admits that he is embarrassed by this film.

Zitate
Les Patterson: Hey, Nev, where were you when the shit hit the fan, dickhead?

Crazy Credits
Dame Edna Everage and Dr. Sir Leslie Patterson appear by arrangement with the Barry Humphries Life Enhancement Facility.

Alternative Versionen
A comparison between the DVDs published in the U.K. (2004) and in Germany (2011) shows different endings, apparently the Australian/worldwide Edition and a special version for the USA. The worldwide Edition ends with Sir Les Patterson getting awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. After an eulogy has been held in his favor, Sir Les, drunk like a skunk, staggers to the speaker's platform, looses some pages of his speech, bows down and farts, somebody is lighting up a cigarette and the whole story ends like is had begun. In the U.S. version, a reception is held for Sir Les by Mrs. President at the White House. Surrounded by her guests, she praises her interior designer for redecorating her domicile. Than she excuses herself for seeing the lavatories. Meanwhile the gay designer boasts of his idea of having colored the Blue Salon all in pink and that even appropriate toilet seats have installed at the lavatories this very morning. Getting suspicious about the seats being contaminated, Sir Les rushes into the ladies and comes back with a bewildered, but happy Mrs. President on his arms and the invited crowd applauds.