Boy is Taika Waititi‘s second feature film. It returns to the subject matter of his Oscar-nominated short, “Two Cars, One Night,” which took a kids-eye perspective to life in a Maori community, but takes a more whimsical, comedic approach. The new tone is somewhat recognizable from his first feature, Eagle vs. Shark, an oddball love story starring Loren Horsley (who co-wrote the script) and Jemaine Clement. But really, Boy is its own thing. If you’ve seen any of Waititi’s films since, Boy is immediately recognizable as one of his, but that’s not exactly a complement. Waititi has enjoyed all sorts of success working in his current comic style. But, at least as far as his films are concerned, he’s been repeating himself.
