The screening of the first installment in the Manu HQ cinematic universe, Birds of a Feather it set to be played EXCLUSIVELY at Reading Cinemas Dunedin.
The venue, situated in the Octagon, will host the film for an exclusive weekend premier, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th of September, which is funnily enough the same day some wannabe bird-enthusiasts hold some irrelevant vote for “bird of the year."
A Bird of the Year contender and former winner, Kererū, has recently come under fire for stating that native bats aren’t real birds and shouldn’t be included. The comments were slammed as ‘demeaning’ but are yet to be debated in Bird Parliament.
Instead of popcorn, the cinema will offer different combinations of birdseed, sugar water and tawa berries for movie-goers to snack on.
“We just reckon it’s more nutritious for our avian faah-nauw,” says an employee on the matter, who had ceremoniously donned a yellow-craft-paper beak for the occasion.
The film, a (yet-to-be-created) indie-slop masterpiece will include all of the best characters from the rising Instagram series Manu HQ, including Kiwi the speaker, the antagonising Tūī, the “non-floor-dwelling” North Island Robin, the “bird” Pekapeka Touroa, and of course, Mr Birdfeathers, who isn’t a possum in disguise. This dynamic cast will all play themselves, in this inspired-by-real-events spectacle.
Notably, this is the first relevant feature length film that Weta Workshops has made since whenever they decided to focus on exclusively creating disproportionately sized bird sculptures for the Wellington Airport for some fucking reason.
While we do not have extensive details about the plot of the film, the Dunedin Herald can reveal that audiences will view New Zealand icon laser-kiwi lasering about the place. in the general direction of the antagonising Tūī, who tends to burst into song, but in the combustion sense.
The comic relief, a flirtatious Pīwakawaka, will also reportedly have an emotional flashback sequence for all our extinctified bird brethren who nobly died to defend our great feathery nation, which it will internalise and never speak of again.
Film connoisseurs and DOC rangers are expecting a high turnout, and the film is expected to bring in at least 500 small shiny objects at the box office, unless local terror B*nedict Ong rears his ugly mug and comes to thieve them all.
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