Most of my life philosophy is based around my deeply held belief that true love exists, and everyone can find it if they look hard enough. I’m not talking about some kind of fairytale bullshit where some dude rescues some chick from a dragon or whatnot, but the kind of love that makes you realize you have found your reflection in another person. The movie Eagle vs. Shark confirms this notion for me. That’s not to say that this movie is a Notebook-style love story; I say this simply because if the two main characters found each other, anybody should be able to do the same.

Quirky is a word there just begins to describe the mood of Eagle vs. Shark. Many people had described it to me as a “New Zealand Napoleon Dynamite“, and I can see where they draw the resemblance. I tend to like Eagle vs. Shark much better for two reasons: there is A, a plot, and B, character development. It follows the developing relationship of Lily and Jarrod, the male and female winners for the Most Awkward Person contest. Lily is a painfully shy Meaty Boy checkout girl who develops a raging crush on one of her regular customers. The Meaty Boy loving Jarrod is a space cadet in the highest sense of the term, so wrapped up in the fantasy world he has created for himself that he would fail to recognize his face in the mirror, let alone another person’s undying love for him. (more…)