This is a sweet runt movie starring JEMAINE CLEMENT (of Flight of the Conchords fame) and LOREN HORSLEY (of…being Taika Waititi’s girlfriend fame? ) . Not obvious why Amazon doesn’t have them listed anywhere as the stars…

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The film follows Jarrod (Clement) and Lily’s (Horsley) budding romance, from her crush on him as she works at a speedy food restaurant he frequents, to their hook-up at a dress-as-your-favorite animal party, to visiting his hometown as he takes revenge on someone who bullied him in school. They are unlikely soul mates, bonded by similar facial moles.

The film includes fine shots of the Unique Zealand wing, a cramped stop-action animation, and Clement sporting a really choice mullet! Like a lot of stuff that has been coming out of Unique Zealand lately, it is heavy on the quirk but also has some comical and heartfelt moments. And fans of Clement will appreciate a scene in which he is wearing a Speedo.

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You WILL call all of your enemies “foolish, foolish sucka” after seeing this movie!

Lilly (Loren Horsley) works in a rapid food restaurant and garners the respect of no one. But she takes it on the chin and remains curiously sweet. She’s got a crush on Jarrod, a narcissist geek with a nefarious mullet played by Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame. Jarrod and Lilly hook up at a party one night. (Do you want to have sex? OK.) Jarrod has a mission-to crush a samoan lad who tortured him in school. He returns home to fight his nemesis. I won’t give it away, but the ending to this movie had me laughing hysterically. This is a completely recent script absent banal comedy and pudgy of emotional depth. You won’t gape films like this coming out of Hollywood these days. Thank you Taika and the NZ Film Commission.

Many people have compared Eagle to Napoleon Dynamite, but I accept the comparison lacking. Yes, Lily and Jarrod are geeks, but the similarities with Napoleon extinguish there. This isn’t a geek revenge movie though the site may seem like that on the face of it. The movie is titled Eagle vs. Shark but it could be titled man vs. woman. Neither Lily or Jarrod accelerate to each other as solace from the outside world. Lily has a warm home life with her brother and Jarrod is resplendent solidly convinced of his stature and his ability with women until the raze of the movie. It’s racy to view how Lily turns Jarod around. This film is about the balance of power between Lily and Jarod, not geeks vs the world.

There are a lot of pleasurable minor characters in this film including Jarrod’s sister and her husband and Lily’s brother. Jarrod’s daughter is played brilliantly by an eccentric microscopic girl whose name I can’t accept on the DVD. She’s cute to peruse. I liked Lorena’s performance. She brings strength to her role as Lily but doesn’t arrive off aggressive. It must have been a difficult role to play moral.

Good extras on the film including some nice deleted scenes. The commentary with Taika was a puny off putting. He seems a bit over it. His girlfriend, Lorena Horsely who plays Lily calls from NZ and they talk a bit about the film, but neither one of them seem very into it. It seems like the commentary was added a long long time after the film was made and maybe thrown in because of the success of Conchords. The most engaging commentary comes from the guy that plays Jarrod’s brother in law. Taika says things like “that scene comes from the Sundance film workshop” but doesn’t interpret what that is or why he was there. Flight of the Conchords fans don’t lift Eagle to hear any interviews or commentary with Jemaine. He is curiously absent from all the extras here as he was with Conchords. Jemaine seems more over it all these days than anyone. I doubt HBO will regain a season 3 out of him unless they throw him excited furious money.

There are a lot of sizable views of NZ in this film. Loved the camera shot on the playground with Lily running in the mouse wheel with the bay out the befriend. Heavenly. Sterling music from the Phoenix Foundation Horsepower, Pegasus that works well with the film. The soundtrack wasn’t chosen for marketing purposes, it actually works with what’s going on in the film.

When I witness a agreeable film like this, completed for under a million dollars, you wonder what is going on in Hollywood these days that more films like this aren’t made. Hollywood is top-notch at throwing money into a lot of dreary scripts with hot actors, but it takes someone like Taika to reach along and point to how a fine movie is really about a qualified script, not special effects and handsome people.
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