With gentle humour and packed full of Kiwiana this is a reasonably enjoyable film without hitting any great or new heights. The theme is an old one, the setting different and the acting good enough. New Zealand audiences love it as they see a part of themselves and their lives reflected back to them - Bush tramping and hunting are as stereotypically Kiwi as you can be. Maybe I wasn't in the right mood at the time but the pathos was lost on me, appearing ham-fisted. Some of the acting was cartoonish but maybe that was the point, it is a comedy after all, but it didn't work for me. Perhaps I have seen too many good comedies down the years done really well. I won't begrudge Kiwis the right to publish rave reviews here, I'm just sorry I can't join them in that.
Review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople
