Young Einstein

To say that Yahoo Serious (nee Greg Pead), the Australian writer, director, coproducer, editor, and star of YOUNG EINSTEIN, takes a few liberties with the title physicist's life in this off-the-wall "mockudrama" is like saying that Ingmar Bergman is "concerned with major themes." As the title character, Serious sports an updated version of Einstein's familiar fright-wig haircut, but there the resemblance ends. His Einstein, the son of humble Tasmanian apple farmers, happens upon the theory of relativity early in life, and uses his discovery to split the beer atom. Later in life, young Einstein invents both the electric guitar and the surfboard. When not inventing,...