IF you threw 500 or so indie films into a meat grinder and turned the handle for 90 minutes, you'd get something like this New Zealand effort.
It's not a bad film but follows such a traditional pattern of low-budget quirk that there's little to elevate it above the mediocre.
So we have socially innept Lily who develops a crush on socially innept Jarrod (Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords) on the strength of facial mole similarity. Lily manages to snaffle Jarrod, who then embroils her in his mission to fight the bully who terrorised him as a kid.
The cast is decent and the story fairly engaging, but Jarrod's dysfunctional family is straight out of Indie Films 101 and the stop-motion apples are silly.
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