Egg5

2025 · 3m

Directed by Jorge Oubel

Genres: comedy, surrealism

Tones: absurdist, whimsical

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.

Felix

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.

Margot

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.

Zoe