Taika Waititi's Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a comedy about a troubled teenager and his foster father who decide live in the New Zealand bush after an unfortunate event.
In my Swiss Army Man review I mentioned Wilderpeople as one of the funniest films I have seen this year. It is my favourite comedy of the year, due to it's characters, story and all round likeableness.
Julian Dennison and Sam Neill work brilliantly with each other. They have great comedic chemistry and have two of the best characters I have seen this year. I like Sam Neill in this films I have seen him in, but he is absolutely brilliant here as Hec. Julian Dennison is even better as Ricky, and gives some of the best one liners out of any film I have seen this year.
It's not just the main characters that are well written, but the secondary characters have some lines that are just as good as Ricky and Hec's. Standouts are Rachel House's social services worker and Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby's cameos.
Of all of Waititi's work I have only seen this and What We Do in the Shadows(which he co-wrote and directed with Jemaine Clement), and I really want to see more of his films. He is a very good comedic director who knows how and when to put in deeper and more emotional moments. I am a fan of comic books and superheroes, and with Waititi's involvement in Thor: Ragnarok, I am now more excited to see it next year(and the Team Thor short is great too).
In Short: Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of the funniest films of the year with great characters, a hilarious script and very well done direction.
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