Dressed as a shark, she goes to the party which has quite the...ummm... interesting turn out. At the party Jarrod, who is dressed as an eagle (hence the title) starts chatting her up and its clear these two socially awkward adults have some sort of spark between them. At the party they have a "Fight Man" video game competition. The winner gets to fight Jarrod. Lily, now nicknamed Dangerous Person, plays the game and ends up getting to the final round where she will fight Jarrod. During the fight, she can't take her eyes off of them and he wins the tournament.
Later, while showing her his room, they have sex. Very very brief sex. The next day he asks her on a date, but ends up standing her up because he suffers from depression and needed to be alone. He comes to her house to apologize and while there tells her he is going to be out of town to beat up his high school nemesis. Unfortunately he has no way to get there. Since somewhere in this storyline they have become boyfriend and girlfriend, she has her brother drive them. She meets his family, when out of nowhere he dumps he because he has too much going on right now.
Stuck in a town she doesn't know with her ex-boyfriend's family, she is pretty miserable. But she starts to come out of her shell more as she gets to know his family better and he starts realizing what a mistake he had made.
I probably did a horrible job of describing this movie because after writing it I don't think I would watch it. But I loved this movie. It had an offbeat humor that I found charming even though both characters, actually almost all the characters, were quirky. Then you have Jemaine who almost seems to be playing the same Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords minus his wingman Bret. It's a hard sense of humor to describe on paper but I guess it almost felt like a New Zealand version of Napolean Dynamite. Completely different storyline though.
Rating: ****
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