The movie makes a case for itself through sheer oddness and perversity. Oz has great tolerance for eccentricity and oddness. People tend to like the oddness among the evenness. Though it is odd, yet it simply reflects the oddness of life. Robert admits the oddness of the gremlin avoiding everyone else's sight but not his. The character of Engleby's oddness, though, is harder to fathom. The Stig's introductions on the show have underlined his oddness. At first the brain aches and freezes at so much darkness, disorder and oddness. Again the mouse wonders aloud at the oddness of the name. But it is a big-hearted, fun celebration of oddness which is no bad thing. The book's scarcity and oddness has seen copies priced at $4,000 by book dealers.