Egg5
2025 · 3m
Directed by Jorge Oubel
Genres: comedy, surrealism
A YouTuber explains his potato omelette recipe — but the eggs don't seem to find it very funny.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A YouTuber's earnest tutorial hijacked by the eggs' collective disdain—it's the kind of premise that shouldn't work but does, sneaking genuine absurdist teeth under the guise of food-content satire. Oubel's subverting the whole cheerful-influencer-genre from the inside, and it's gloriously weird.
While the surrealist conceit is playful, the film's structural debt to tutorial-format comedy feels more novelty than considered—it lands its gag but doesn't interrogate the form with the rigor that would elevate it beyond a clever premise.
The decision to play the eggs' skepticism with complete deadpan seriousness, never winking at the camera, is what makes this work; it's a single tonal choice that transforms what could be a one-note joke into something that actually breathes.