A meteorite hits a trash dumpster outside a toy store and a strange green slime leaks into the garbage.

Nominally about attempts to steal a gold mine, the movie starts out with the air of a realistic comedy, then immediately descends into a series of perfectly timed gags which made me goggle at their improbability -- not the sort of thing you normally think of in a slapstick comedy. Very quickly the unerring ability of ropes to loop themselves around tree roots, stopping Al from plummeting to his death or an explosion to drop him on a bull came to make me goggle again.

Alfie Zimmer's career and marriage has been destroyed by lustful desires. Now he has to make a decisions. That will change his life and will take place in one motel room.