I’ve never forgotten the poster tagline for the classic time travel comedy Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure: “History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can’t spell.” If those titular muttonheads could spell, and banged out a screenplay inspired by Australian history, perhaps they’d come up with something like The Emu War, a stupidly entertaining work of, um, revisionism about a very real military operation.
In 1932 the Royal Australian Artillery tried, and comprehensively failed, to cull some 20,000 of our native flightless birds which, according to this viscerally cockamamie comedy, were well-resourced and well-armed, fighting back with actual guns under the instruction of the well-endowed “Queen” emu (voiced by of Amy Moule), who looks like a cheap prototype designed for The Dark Crystal, crossed with one of the sex-crazed puppets from Meet the Feebles.
