EAGLE VS SHARK
7.5/10
Don't mean to bore you with yet another 7.5/10 rating, but them's the breaks. This NZ comedy was a great little flick, reminiscent in parts of Napolean Dynamite, but probably a little better. I never got the hype about Napolean Dynamite actually - I enjoyed it and all, but think the cult status it received was probably overdone. Anyway, this film's about nerdy chick Lily and how she's got the hots for the nerdy boy Jarrod (One half of New Zealand's fourth most popular folk-parody duo, Flight of the Conchords). Jarrod's obviously very self conscious about himself and displays that externally in trying to come off as a winner, when it's really so obvious that he's not. A particularly funny scene with Jarrod's friend Mason acting as the 'computer hacker' makes the film worth seeing alone. See it if you like off-beat indie comedies.