Great film, the thugs in the scallop industry would love it. Although be careful of those red bellied black snakes. This is dizzy stuff folks. Tony Martin is a genius.Up there with The Castle, Short Bus and Meat Pie.Some of the scenes are comedy gold with the visual aspects great. Do yourself a favor and get this film on Video Disc or VHS.Martin uses Franklin's brilliant straight-faced delivery, to help keep things from getting too serious. The debutante also livens things up with the use two truly excellent sight-gags, one of which is a hilarious narrated recollection by Franklin's character.This film is good enough to even forgive the increasingly embarrassing number of times (four I think!) that the top of the boom mike can be seen in a couple of scenes. I don't think Mr. Martin will skip any more editing sessions for future projects! His raw talent, however, is plain to see. That, and the intelligence displayed in not trying to turn his debut film into more than it should be, has me looking forward to his next project.

Comparisons to other Australian comedies are inevitable, so I'm not going to bother trying.It's not the funniest film of all time, but it's a great laid back Australian film with a few really good laughs. In my opinion, the biggest strength of Bad Eggs, and indeed Crackerjack which came before it, is that the characters (the good guys at least) are very likeable; you want them to come through in the end. That was the big failing with "Welcome to Woop Woop" - you just wanted that movie to end.The reason the film hasn't registered as a huge hit is because it switches from a surreal comedy to a thriller about forty minutes in. Mick Molloy and Bob Franklin begin the movie a bumbling duo, and then it very quickly gets serious.The performances for me were offhand and great - the characters are really a bunch of real Australians just arsing around and having some fun. If you couldn't get into this movie, I suggest you watch it again, and let yourself enjoy it. There's no shame in enjoying a couple of laughs.3 and a half stars

[Minor spoilers!!]I have much respect for Tony Martin, Mick Molloy and Bob Franklin. Tony Martin and Bob Franklin especially so, being, in my opinion, two of the funniest men alive. However, I thought that Bad Eggs was terrible. It had several gags that were extremely funny (Australia's Most Wanted and the 4 colour pen come to mind immediately). But on the whole the movie was not funny and the plot wasn't interesting or clever.Don't get me wrong, it's not that I don't "understand" this brand of comedy. Bob Franklin's work on Jimeon, Tony Martin's on the Late Show, and even Mick Molloy's "The Mick Molloy Show" were all Australian television moments that I thoroughly enjoyed. Bad Eggs contained only glimpses of this humor and I didn't care for the plot. I guess I was expecting it to be a whole lot funnier than it actually was. I felt this movie didn't carry enough humour to be a comedy, nor was it successful as a crime/thriller/drama. It did neither well, falling somewhere in the middle . . . . mediocrity.Cmon guys. You should have done much better than that! I was expecting Tony Martin's writing combined with Bob and Mick as the main characters to produce something much better.

Mmm. 'Bad Eggs' taste good. I didn't reach for the jaffas til halfway through this satisfying story, when I took a breath and realised I was deeply in movie land, concerned for the safety of the main characters, letting the mood setting music lull me along, laughing til I snorted at all the jokes 'raising the eyebrow' at the standard movie cliches. A lifetime of movie watching (bought on by asthma maybe, or was it the other way around) as well as quality movie industry interviews while on radio, has certainly given Tony Martin the skills required to deliver a top view. Go and enjoy this Australian sense of humour and story telling from a deeply talented NZ born man, admirably supported by his TV experienced wife, setting a damned high bar for the local industry.