Can't say I saw this coming ... after the international critical success of his Ten Canoes - a film much loved by the Twitch-y folk when it played the Toronto International Film Festival - Rold De Heer has returned to give us Dr Plonk a comedy about the end of the world shot in the style of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. No kidding. Yeah, it's a total gimmick but it looks fantastic.
It is the great year of 1907. Dr Plonk, eminent scientist and inventor, calculates that the world will end in exactly 101 years unless immediate action is taken. As befalls visionaries through the ages, Plonk is ridiculed for his beliefs, by politicians, by bureaucrats, even by his faithful manservant Paulus. Being the lateral thinker that he is, Plonk invents a time machine and sets out to collect the necessary proof from the very future that's ending.But little about the year of 2007 makes sense to the intrepid doctor. His efforts to alert the appropriate authorities cause him to fall foul of the law and become a hunted man. With the nation's entire law-enforcement system arrayed against him, a scientific question is posed...can Dr Plonk run fast enough?
Big thanks to John for pointing it out.
pop...ups...are...kill...ing...meeee. pop-ups shouldn't be used as pages of a site.
looks like a fun flick, though. one day i hope to get my hands on it.
direct download is here