IMDb RATING
5.2/10
8.7K
YOUR RATING
Albert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n' roll.Albert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n' roll.Albert Einstein turns the science community upside down with his discoveries including a formula to put bubbles back in beer and rock n' roll.
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
8.7K
YOUR RATING
- Director
- Writers
- Yahoo Serious(screenplay)
- David Roach(screenplay)
- Stars
Top credits
- Director
- Writers
- Yahoo Serious(screenplay)
- David Roach(screenplay)
- Stars
- Awards
- 4 nominations
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- Director
- Writers
- Yahoo Serious(screenplay)
- David Roach(screenplay)
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Storyline
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beautiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention. —Wiki
- Taglines
- One Seriously Funny Movie
- Genres
- Certificate
- PG
- Parents guide
Did you know
- TriviaConstant references apples and props were a joke on the fact Tasmania is Australia's largest producer/supplier of apples, so much so that the official state slogan printed on Tasmanian car license plates is "Tasmania: The Apple Isle".
- GoofsWhen Marie talks to Albert in the Lunatic Asylum's shower room, "If you won't do anything, who will?" is dubbed over "If you won't do anything, I will."
- Crazy creditsYoung Einstein is dedicated to a genius, a rebel, a pacifist, an eccentric with a clowning sense of humour who once remarked about his own theories "...I never thought that others would take them so much more seriously than I did...". Albert Einstein 1879-1955
- ConnectionsFeatured in Mental As Anything: Rock and Roll Music (1988)
Top review
You got to love the idea
"Young Einstein" is not a great movie. It's not really a good movie either. 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? No, of course not. This movie takes a very light and novel approach to making a movie about science. Not all the jokes are good. In fact, most are pretty bad. But at least most of them are original. 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. Otherwise, it's worth a look.
**1/2 out of **** stars
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? No, of course not. This movie takes a very light and novel approach to making a movie about science. Not all the jokes are good. In fact, most are pretty bad. But at least most of them are original. 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. Otherwise, it's worth a look.
**1/2 out of **** stars
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- basrutten
- Feb 20, 2002
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- Also known as
- Le jeune Einstein
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $11,536,599
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $3,094,581
- Aug 6, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $11,536,599
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