Eh, the Book Was Better

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that following minutes of rigorous research, I have located The Best Wombat Movie Ever Been Made! Three solid minutes of pudgy, adorable wombat! If you enjoyed such classics as Gone With the Wombat, The Maltese Wombat, and The Wombat On the River Kwai, then you must see… The Best Wombat Movie Ever Been Made! Coming soon to this theater!

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46 thoughts on “Eh, the Book Was Better

  1. Jakepets December 14, 2016 / 12:39 pm

    I, for one, think this film truly lives up to all the hype. The crunching! The snuffling! The furry, sleepy eyelids! The moment when the wombat suddenly thinks, “Wait … is someone watching me? Oh never mind.” Gripping entertainment. Can’t wait for the sequel.

  2. Gigi the cat lady December 14, 2016 / 12:48 pm

    The Best Wombat Movie Ever Been Made! Coming soon to this theater! You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. It will change your life!

    • Emsthemonster December 14, 2016 / 12:50 pm

      for the better? 🙂

      • Gigi the cat lady December 14, 2016 / 1:40 pm

        Butt of course! ?

        • DebG December 14, 2016 / 3:21 pm

          That wombat butt was really cute.

  3. Mikeyfur December 14, 2016 / 1:00 pm

    A star is born! I especially liked the wombat butt at “the end.” Loving Wombat Wednesdays.

    • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 1:21 pm

      The suspense as he began the turn – “Don’t DO it” we all cry but he’s a tough little wombat and he prevailed – uh, in The End.

      • D B December 14, 2016 / 1:48 pm

        Is that a wombutt, then?

        • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 2:03 pm

          ?

      • allein ? December 14, 2016 / 2:38 pm

        I was afraid we might get a demonstration of that cube construction…

        • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 5:21 pm

          ? Ooh, that would’ve been interesting.

          • Faye December 15, 2016 / 12:27 pm

            Where’s David Attenborough for riviting description.

            • Murray C. December 15, 2016 / 4:19 pm

              Hee, hee.

  4. Faye December 14, 2016 / 1:09 pm

    In a world of portentous hillocks and winds, where even a wombat cannot dine unobserved, the need for sustenance persists, as dramatically depicted in Splendor In The Grass: Starring Natalie Wombat and Warren Hamster Dog.

    Personally I found similarities to Wuthering Heights. But Miss Wombat’s performance outshone any referential depiction of previous actresses brooding amongst the moors.

    • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 1:22 pm

      Remember Month Python’s version of Wuthering Heights in semaphore???

      • Gigi the cat lady December 14, 2016 / 1:37 pm

        This is the best one I found, Wuthering Heights starts at 1:04.

        • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 2:05 pm

          All it’s doing is buffering for some reason. (remember the race between Anacin and Bufferin?)

          • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 5:23 pm

            Oh, good, it’s working now. Thanks, GiGi.

  5. Mal December 14, 2016 / 1:10 pm

    The book was better? There’s a movie about a wombat eating a book? I would totally drive 30 miles to the megaplex to see that in IMAX.

    • Faye December 14, 2016 / 1:47 pm

      Ha!

  6. Emmberrann December 14, 2016 / 1:25 pm

    What about Wombatorama?

  7. Faye December 14, 2016 / 1:49 pm

    I’m waiting for The Wombat Of The Baskervilles.

    • allein ? December 14, 2016 / 2:42 pm

      Wombatman and Robin.

      • Ricky's Mom December 14, 2016 / 5:32 pm

        I see what you did there.

  8. Smartypants December 14, 2016 / 1:51 pm

    This is even better than ‘Star Wombats Episode IV: A New Hope’!

  9. Juno December 14, 2016 / 2:34 pm

    Definitely the best scenery since A Wombat Runs Through It.

    • Murray C. December 14, 2016 / 5:19 pm

      More like “A Wombat Chews Through It”.

  10. allein ? December 14, 2016 / 2:36 pm

    Excuse me, but I was promised “three solid minutes” of wombat. This film was only two minutes and fifty-seven seconds! I demand a refund!!!

    Now I want to stop at the bookstore and see if they have Diary of a Wombat in stock.

    Also, did anyone else want to reach in and pick off the bit of grass or whatever that was stuck to his forehead? Where’s the makeup department?!

    • DebG December 14, 2016 / 3:22 pm

      OMG I actually hit the screen with my hand!

      • allein ? December 14, 2016 / 3:23 pm

        :-}

  11. Starfish December 14, 2016 / 2:40 pm

    For my money, no wombat movie beats The Bride of Wombatstein.

  12. Dana December 14, 2016 / 3:09 pm

    This pudgy guy looks part bear. Or is he extra-fluffed up for winter?

    • allein ? December 14, 2016 / 3:11 pm

      Assuming he’s in his native Australia, it’s summer there.

  13. Birdcage December 14, 2016 / 3:45 pm

    I thought to myself, “Hey! It’s snowing on that wombat! How seasonal!” before I realized that it’s only snowing on Cutetropolis.

  14. Dubravkamcvmd December 14, 2016 / 5:23 pm

    It was the art direction that did it for me. The wombat fur was the same texture as the grass and the bushes, and the same color as the bushes. An austere vision of a wombat alone.

    • Faye December 15, 2016 / 12:06 am

      Very Ingmar Bergmaanwombatstromnesque.

      • Smartypants December 15, 2016 / 7:56 am

        LOL, I was mentally searching for “Bergman” but couldn’t come up with it – thank you! 😀

        • Faye December 15, 2016 / 5:12 pm

          ?

  15. Ricky's Mom December 14, 2016 / 5:34 pm

    I give this film four stars for having a wombat in it, minus three stars for not remotely living up to its hype. No snorgling, no interspecies interaction, no babies, no wombat zoomies …

    But it has a wombat in it, so: One star.

    Eleventy-hundred stars for Mike’s intro, though.

  16. Faye December 15, 2016 / 12:08 am

    110% on Rotten Kiwis.

  17. RandomStranger December 16, 2016 / 2:23 am

    How about “Mortal Wombat”?!

    • allein ? December 16, 2016 / 6:36 am

    • Murray C. December 16, 2016 / 1:26 pm

      Excellent!

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