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Eagle vs. Shark
Miramax Films
MPAA RATING: R for language, some sexuality, and brief animated violence
Starring
Jemaine Clement,
Taika Cohen,
David Fane,
Craig Hall,
Morag Hills,
Cohen Holloway,
Loren Horsley,
and
Rachel House
From New Zealand comes a wickedly offbeat love story - a funny, fractured romance between two total misfits, woven into an all-consuming quest for revenge, and shot through with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human condition. (Miramax Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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Foreign
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Taika Waititi
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Taika Waititi
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 8, 2008
Theatrical: June 15, 2007
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| RUNNING TIME: |
88 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
New Zealand |
Nominated, Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema - Dramatic), 2007 Sundance Film Festival

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80
Empire
Olly Richards
So quirky that it’s almost in danger of collapsing under the weight of its own antic whimsy at times, but a comic delight destined for cult adoration.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
A Kiwi nerd love story and loopy portrait of Down Under underachievers, Eagle vs. Shark offers a deadpan take on family, friendship, obsession and self-delusion.

75
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
What rescues Eagle vs. Shark is its focus on Lily. Although Horsley overdoes the winsomeness, she is genuinely appealing. Love erases Lily's geekiness and in its place stands an attractive young woman.

75
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Unlike so many big-studio films that pass off models in horn-rimmed glasses as nerds, this little New Zealand gem embraces the inner geek and, just as effectively, celebrates misfit love.

75
TV Guide
Ken Fox
With an often very funny story line that eventually touches on parental disappointment and suicide, it's clear that, his debt to Hess and Wes Anderson notwithstanding, Waititi has learned a thing or two from fellow antipodean Jane Campion as well.

75
Premiere
Stephen Saito
The film is punctuated by a literal knock down, drag out affair that has all the perverse curiosity of watching a "late career" Mike Tyson bout. But by the end, the real knockout is the discovery of this comic gem.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Never before have I been so emotionally involved with an apple core, or seen salvation in a flip-flop. Taika Waititi, you had me at nunchuks.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The movie isn't funny in any big way so much as recognizable in its patterns of dysfunction, delusion and futility. But you believe in it, because you believe in the small but decent lives of its characters, a rare experience for a hot weekend in June.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
This debut feature, occasionally arch but consistently affecting, shares the deadpan esthetic of "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Ghost World."

67
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The film’s resolution is more implied than complete.

63
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Watching Eagle vs Shark is like sitting next to a terminally awkward first date at a restaurant. You cringe and feel protective toward the poor, sweet dweebs at the same time.

63
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
Eagle vs. Shark feels like a low-budget, foreign cousin to Napolean Dynamite, less polished and sly. But it's definitely in the same family, lulling us into friendly acceptance with its persuasively silly rhythm and deceptively big heart.

60
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
It's a perfectly cheerful time at the movies, without any hint of drama or surprise.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Despite Clement's best efforts to make Jarrod a deadpan oddball nerd, it becomes apparent early on that excessive teenage eccentricity and terminal self-delusion isn't quite as cute in the adult male and absent father.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This is the kind of movie in which Jarrod's nemesis turns out to be paraplegic, while his dad lives in a wheelchair despite the fact that he can walk just fine. Ha.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Tasha Robinson
Might feel like a colorful little train-wreck drama, but given the recent popularity of such films, it comes across more like a nerdcore clip show, a sort of straight-faced "Epic Movie" for fans of discomfort comedy.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
In the end, Eagle vs. Shark represents a convincing triumph for Dumb.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
There are occasional nice moments scattered throughout, but this is mostly a big, uncomfortable cartoon focused on the twisted attraction between two caricatures.

50
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Intermittently charming, sometimes tiresome celebration of quirkiness.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
As it turns out, spending a couple of hours with emotionally arrested, socially moronic characters is not a whole lot more fun than spending a couple of hours with actual emotionally arrested, socially moronic people.

42
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's a tale that reduces angst, not to mention love, to a generational tic.

40
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
The movie's idea of funny is giving the two lovers identical moles bordering their upper lips.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
James Greenberg
More dumb than funny.

40
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Result is still innocuously mild and inconsequential.

30
Village Voice
Jim Ridley
You can't see the forest for the twee in writer-director Taika Waititi's thicket of cutesy conceits, from the stunted supporting characters to the precious animated interludes.


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