User Reviews

This little film is fun. We watched it online and laughed out loud. How often does that happen? It is wonderful to stumble on little jewels like this every now and again. Edsville / Stepford.....I think I'd take Edsville. In a world that has gotten complicated and overly serious it is nice to find the back road to Edsville to get lost on for fourteen minutes.

We eagerly wait for the sequel. Edsville II Return of the the 'Dancing Bears'?? No, really, this film surprised us. Viva Edsville. We looked up James O'Regan online and found a theologian?? Who says the clergy doesn't have a sense of humour? The IMDb insists on ten lines minimum of comment, but on a fourteen minute film we're running out of superlatives.

This enjoyable, subtle spoof of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS concerns an annoying yuppie couple (who call each other egregiously cutesy names like "snookums" every couple of minutes) who "go slumming" one weekend (they're on their way to a country antique sale, to be precise) and stop off at this one-horse town, where everybody (and I mean, EVERYBODY) acts like they're Ed Sullivan.

Probably for the sake of copyright, the name "Ed Sullivan" is never mentioned, but everyone's demeanour makes the point obvious. From the kid who auditions tiny talent to the parkside loonies who accost the yuppie wife, everyone in this place does a spot-on impersonation of Mr. Sunday Night, and geared to their own character's sensibilities (be they shopkeepers, mechanics or clergymen).

I will go on the record and say that a lot of shorts made in Canada are pure agony to watch. However, for this one, the filmmakers knew exactly just how far they could stretch this premise. For its brief running time, this is a funny little fable that offers up some nice surprises, especially the howler of an ending.