Young Einstein

Plot synopsis:
Yahoo Serious plays the lead role as Albert Einstein, a Tasmanian youth growing up on his parent's apple farm where he spends most of his time listening to music and thinking about the universe. When young Albert falls out of an apple tree and lands on a plank, causing a box of apples to fall on his head, he comes up with his first scientific theory: every action has an equal and opposite reaction.His father (Peewee Wilson) decides show him how to brew beer but, through all his successes, he can't seem to give his beer a proper head full of bubbles. In an attempt to please his father, and further his scientific prowess with his newly discovered formula, E=mc2, Albert succeeds in putting bubbles into beer, with catastrophic consequences. Doing so required the splitting of a beer atom and it causes the entire beer shack to explode. However, Albert's father proclaims him a genius and sends him off to mainland Australia to patent his idea as his mother (Su Cruickshank) bids him a tearful farewell.After weeks of travel, Albert catches a train bound for Sydney where he meets pompous Preston Preston (John Howard), head of the patent office, and Marie Curie (Odile Le Clezio), a Nobel Prize winning student of physics from France. Though Preston is less than impressed with Albert's rustic appearance, Marie is tickled pink by his theories on the universe. Once in Sydney, Albert proceeds to the patent office where he is quickly dismissed for not having a proper invention to patent. Albert decides to find a place to stay while he works on his theories and finds haven in a run down hotel, which turns out to be a brothel. There, he comes up with the theory of rock n roll and fashions his own electrical violin, explaining his idea scientifically. He brings it to the patent office as a genuine invention but is dismissed yet again.He meets up with Marie at the University of Sydney and talks more about his theories, getting kicked out of her class in the process for showing his formula. They spend more and more time together, discussing the theory of relativity while Albert comes up with new inventions. Marie implores Preston to give Albert a job at the patent office which Albert soon finds confusing while Preston confesses his love for Maria, along with his overall disdain for Einstein. Maria is less than impressed. Preston then finds Alberts formula for splitting atoms and decides to take it for himself and places Albert in a mental institution for mad scientists to keep him out of the way. He appears to fit in, discussing his theories with the other inmates despite receiving harsh treatment from the staff.After discovering what Preston intends to do with the formula (create the largest beer keg - essentially an atom bomb - in the world), Marie rushes to the institution to find Albert, disguised as his father. She finds him in the mens showers and, after a tender moment, tells Albert about Prestons plot. Dejected at first, Albert hatches an idea for escape using his theory of electrical rock n roll. He builds a new electrical guitar and hooks it up to the institutions main lines, shorting out all the circuits and opening all the doors. He escapes with the other inmates after avoiding a masculine nurse (Russell Cheek) and saving a pie full of kittens from a mad cook (Roger Ward).Then he crashes the Science Academy Awards where Preston has displayed his beer keg hanging from a hot air balloon. Albert manages to save everyone from certain doom using his electrical guitar to suck out all the energy within the bomb - a feat that would kill any normal man, but Albert is far from normal. He reunites with Marie and is congratulated by none other than Charles Darwin (Basil Clarke) himself. The government approaches Albert and asks him for the formula for splitting the atom, which Albert agrees to hand over. Marie questions his decision but Albert innocently states, If you cant trust the governments of the world, who can you trust? Albert takes Marie home with him to Tasmania where he sings and plays his guitar to swooning fans.

Tags: absurd, historical fiction

Review:
"Young Einstein" is not a great movie.
But it's an original, low-budget and very likeable movie.Of course, it's all complete nonsense.
The plot involves Yahoo Serious splitting beer atoms, inventing the electric violin and the surfing board, running into the cute Marie Curie and having a very bad hair day, and is of course full of anachronisms and other factual errors.But does that really matter?
And the parts were Young Einstein explains some concepts of relativity are great !
The only explanation I can give for the low rating this movie currently has is that most people simply don't understand the jokes.
If you don't know what splitting an atom is, and if you don't know that beer-atoms are none-existent, then you probably hate this movie.
'Young Einstein', as well as 'Reckless Kelly' certainly don't belong on any 'worst films' list.
These movies are better, by any artistic criteria, than half of the films on the IMDB 'best 250' list.
Albert Einstein is a Tasmanian apple farmer who surfs, E=mc2 is pronounced "Emck" and is used to put the bubbles in beer, and the chef at the mental assylum puts live kittens in a pie (Don't worry, Albert saves them).
It's a good movie for watching during a pajama party.
The director may be Yahoo Serious, but this movie is anything but..
Not everyone will be interested in YOUNG EINSTEIN because it's too goofy and offbeat for their liking.
Who believed history would have changed with the invention of rock-and-roll music in 1906?
We all know in real life that Albert Einstein didn't create a math formula for electric guitar noises, but this is a satiric approach to a world-famous individual who came up with E-equals-emcee-squared.
I guess if I was in a bad mood the movie wouldn't be half as good, but I thought it to be very enjoyable and would recommend for a movie for the parents and kids to enjoy.
I give Yahoo Serious a lot of credit for making this a good flick.
But I wouldn't go as far to say it was the best movie of all time and a beautiful piece of art but a movie doesn't have to be beautiful to be good.
I mean every time I watch this movie I always have a smile on my face.
This movie was conceived by Yahoo Serious (who plays Albert Einstein and also directed and wrote the movie).
He could come up with a million good ideas, but he could never surpass this hilarious movie.
As a writer, director, and lead role in this movie, Yahoo Serious not only made a lot of money, he made a great movie.
I saw this film when I was a teen living in Great Britain and for some really odd unexplainable reason, the soundtrack has still stuck with me.
The song played during the credits, "Ice-House - Great Southern Land" is by far one of my all time favorite songs.
The film itself isn't the greatest but I do enjoy watching the "Journey to the Mainland", not just for the song but for the amazing camera work and scenery.
Yahoo Serious' career never really took off and he's kinda like Carrot Top. You either love him or you hate him..
I'm big Einstein fan, so why not love the movie which tells his story.
I have read lot's of Albert, so I don't even want to watch again some historical document(film) of him.
I seriously think that this movie tells me about Einsteins character more than 10 books, because I see his attitude to world has been very similarly with this movie character.The movie have all elements to be loved in a good movie, romance, science, comedy and crazy inventions made by lovely and clever personality from our close history.
Even Marie Curie can't resist his authentic power to be that little rock on the seashore, in big Universum.And peoples who hate this one, please, go back to watch "The fast and the furious".
Do not watch for a history lesson only watch it with cream and salt forget about Einstein and his real history and who he was and just watch it with no preconceived notion's You will laugh so hard it is a grate movie it is good lighthearted humor nice romance just know historical value or scientific value whatsoever it is funny and was made 30 years ago so it is grate for the time in the Visuals and it was all done by one person Ritalin directed produced and stored by the same young man so you got to give him credit watch it its better than anything done nowadays.
I can probably say I've watched this movie more than a hundred times and it gets better every time.
A zany, silly, funny take on a Tasmanian Einstein with a nice little love story thrown in for good measure.
An excellent and difficult production, bolstered by a great performance by Yahoo Serious.
What is most heart-warming about the film is that Mr. Einstein never really puts his goal ahead of the present moment, which he always lives to the maximum.
There is no scene in this movie that isn't beautiful art.
The talent of Yahoo Serious, who starred in and created this movie, is awesome.
The scenes and acting are so good that this movie continually evokes the most wonderful memories between repeated viewings.
Although funny, this movie isn't "goofy." This is a witty script of wonderful, down-to-earth themes.
It's a unique work of art produced by a young genius who uses for a story line the idea "what if" Einstein was born on an Australian farm.
The real Albert Einstein would have given this imaginative work of art an enthusiastic standing ovation..
Yahoo Serious has probably become quite a bit of a joke, which is a shame because his debut effort is more entertaining than a lot of what Hollywood puts out these days.
Serious plays Albert Einstein as though he were an Australian from deep in the outback.
The movie is very offbeat but in a good way and very entertaining if you let it be.
I have always loved this movie and the soundtrack is excellent for any 80s music fan.
Serious went downhill with Reckless Kelly (which isn't a bad movie in and of itself) but got really bad with Mr. Accident.
If you want to see a good, funny, and just entertaining film, you can't go wrong with Young Einstein unless you have completely lost the child inside you..
Though I love this film dearly and have for many years crusaded fervently on its behalf, I have to admit that every single person I've persuaded to watch it has sat there for about half an hour with their mouths open, turned to me and said "This is appalling" (or words to that effect) and then paid no further attention, leaving me to giggle through the rest of it by myself.
There are more moments of original, inspired, unique, hilarious comedy in this film than in just about any other I've seen.
Serious' character performance is superbly charming and funny, and the rest of the film is filled with great acting, but it's the visuals that impress most, it's really quite astounding that such great production values could go into such a non-mainstream film, and be used so effectively.
This is a marvelous film that anyone thinking of taking up film-making should be forced to check out - it would certainly improve the general standard of movies today.
If you've not seen it yet, do; if you have, see it again; if you can, check out Reckless Kelly too - though not as great as Einstein it's up there, and looks just beautiful.
This film is wacky and zany but just isn't funny.
It truly is the worst film that I have ever seen.I went to see it at the cinema on the strength of the trailer and persuaded my cousin that it looked better than "Dead Poets Society" which was also showing.
Take this movie as it was meant - Australians having a good laugh at themselves.
Ok not the greatest movie about - but the soundtrack alone makes up for it - not to mention the great shots of Australian landscapes (and this from a Kiwi)..
Young Einstein bounces back and forth between the heights of imagination and creativity and the absolute depths of ludicrous vulgarity like no other film I have ever seen.
The plot, in which the eponymous character- transplanted from Germany to Australia- Discovers the theory of relativity in the process of making beer, and "invents" rock and roll (despite the fact that it's only 1906).
Despite this, I have to applaud the sheer imagination evident in the script, which includes Charles Darwin and Marie Curie as major characters; nonetheless, the elegance and creativity do not compliment the more ridiculous aspects of the film.
The words: stupid, boring, senseless, and unfunny come to mind.I can find something positive to say about most movies, but this is the only movie I've ever walked out of in my 43 years of life.The problem is primarily with the script, but having Yahoo Serious telegraphing every (questionable) punchline doesn't help.
Essentially, the entire movie revolves around this nut-bag splitting the beer atom.
Assuming you can suspend belief in the periodic table, the entire script doggedly revolves around the impossible premise, which does nothing to enhance the unlikely and inane adventures of the thoroughly unlikable, obviously-deficient (but supposedly genius) slacker, Yahoo Serious, as he attempts to patent the discovery.If your IQ is higher than 50, do NOT see this movie..
Where was Albert Einstein born?
All saw the movie Young Einstein and assumed since he was portrayed as a farmer growing up in Tazmania, that the young Albert Einstein was as an Australian.
In fact, I don't think Einstein ever stepped foot on Australian land let alone grew up in the country.
Just like this little known (maybe unknown) fact about Einstein, the movie Young Einstein is nothing more than laughable.
An excellent, fun, and amazing film I truly enjoy.
Young Einstein is one of the most unusual and creative films I've ever seen.
It is definitely one of my all time favorite Australian films.
For instance the invention of Rock 'n Roll serves to feed a great theme in movie.
Albert Einstein is a genius far ahead of his time and his attempts to introduce Rock 'n Roll and electric instruments serve to illustrate that genius is often not only misunderstood but completely unappreciated.
This is in fact one of the major themes of the film - his parents don't understand him, the scientist with Marie Currie, and her teacher simply don't understand him or his theories.
Yahoo Serious pulled together this hilarious and thought provoking film on a very small budget.
I have seen this film dozens of times now, on cable and in little art house theatres, and it always makes me laugh and gets my spirits a little bit up.
It is definitely a film ahead of it's time, and therefore perhaps just as misunderstood and unappreciated as it's title character..
It may have been out of date, and the sound quality may not have been to good, but overall the movie is great, who would ever think of creating a movie like this?
Wonderful movie, and I should know, I practically grew up on it.
Yahoo Serious uses an excellent amount of satire to portray a genius.
Although not even close to true events (splitting the beer atom to make bubbles in beer, Einstein being Australian), it makes the point that Albert Einstein never took his work as seriously as everyone else did; he just had questions that he wanted answered and he wanted to enjoy life.
Yahoo can't be serious in this wonderful film about splitting beer atoms.
Nevertheless, it has the best explanation of relativity I've ever seen, and as an amateur I can't find fault with the rest of the (incidental) science in the movie either, so I recommend it to physics teachers as well as to anyone else with a sense of humor.If you're looking for a movie in which scientists are the good guys and the fact that they are all in an insane asylum says more about society than about them, this is it.Of course, science gets all mixed up with rock & roll, beer & Australia, but that's as it should be..
This is an awesome movie with a wicked soundtrack..
Young Einstein is a movie that all Australians must see.
Quite Simply The worst film i have ever seen.
I would like to say i have seen Many film's , maybe about 2,000  so you could say i am a bit of an expert in my own household !
So if you only take one peice of advice from let it be this...Don't waste 90 minutes of your life and watch this film, it is the worst piece of codswallop i have ever had the misfortune to see , it makes the police academy films look like masterpieces of our time.
Instead of reading my review, you're actually probably best off reading the reviews for those that rated this movie positively, as you'll note that your head will hurt trying to read them.
That's what watching this movie does to you, it makes you write like them.Young Einstein is a moronic mix of 80s clichés and the kind of dumb, low brow humor that makes Dumb & Dumber and Billy Madison look like Royal Tenenbaums.I love myself some dumb humor, I can even laugh at some films that most people bash for being extraordinarily stupid like the aforementioned Billy Madison, but this...
all i wanted to say was that it was a great film.
This movie was never intended to set the acting world alight.
Face it, how many 80's comedy movies were?
Young Einstein just doesn't hide the fact like others do.If you want an inoffensive, fun and entertaining movie which intertwines the showcasing of the Australian landscape with an unlikely scenario - as in, splitting a beer atom with a hammer and chisel - then by all means, give Young Einstein a try!.
This was one of the first movies I ever saw at the cinema and I loved it.
Keep an eye out for the "cat pie", a delicacy in the mental asylum in which the main character is placed.Beware: the movie is quite 'aussie', Brits and Yanks may have a hard time with some of it ;).
I've seen this movie countless times.
A great and hilarious romp through what could have really been Albert Einstein's youth (in another realm perhaps!)  Highly recommended..
Combining quirky Australian humor with excellent music, this movie is my favorite.
This is one of those movies you have to watch a few times to catch everything in it.
I have quite literally grew up on this film since I was 11 years old, and no matter how many times I watch it on video, it still stands up to the test of time!keep your eyes open throughout for small satire moments, some of which are subtle enough for adults to enjoy, while still delivering the slapstick that Yahoo is quite talented in--remember at the time of release in the US, he was 35!
Yahoo Serious: Embarrassing Australia Through Film.
But that aside, this movie was an abomination, Yahoo Serious is really terrifying, and it's no wonder he isn't making films anymore, considering the critique he received on all three..
In the turn of the century Australia, Albert Einstein (Yahoo Serious) grows up on a Tasmanian apple farm.
Albert solves it by splitting the beer atom.
On the train to Sydney to patent his discovery, he meets the arrogant Preston Preston and the brilliant Marie Curie.Yahoo Serious was a thing once upon a time.
Great movie , but what a name, Yahoo Serious!.
This movie has plenty to go on: comedy, action, and music.
I know the plot was well made, but the actor who played Einstein?
Seeems like he's the one who's got more attention in the U.S. than any other Australian actors around.
A brilliant movie but only for those who enjoy the likes of Monty Python and see the humour in the absurd.
Albert Einstein, a Tasmanian who splits the beer atom?Yes, it's a silly film, but it's also fun throughout and worth seeing for many of the inventions and the in jokes.
Australian Albert Einstein.
Young Einstein is a great Australian flick.It tells about >the life of Albert Einstein when he was young.The movie pretty >much changes the history, like when Albert discovers the beer >making process and invents rock'n roll in the year of 1906.Yahoo Serious takes his role seriously as young Einstein...or not.His >acting is great in the movie but the movie itself isn't too seriously taken.And better that way.Young Einstein is a funny comedy..
Honestly, about half the time I go to the Yahoo!
website, after nearly 20 years of seeing this movie, I think of it because of the name of the instigator.
I looked at the glass and just broke out laughing, watching the beer atoms splitting in the glass.I rented the movie a few years later and watched it at home.
I want to share it with my fianceé, however, as she is from the Czech Republic, where Einstein taught for a while and a land that takes its beer very seriously..
This movie is simply drenched with cleverly written and acted subtle comedy that is all-too-often not noticed by the average viewer.
I had already owned that original album since 1983, and instantly recognized the song when I first saw "Young Einstein" only recently.I highly recommend this movie to all TRUE Monty Python fans.