Hunt for the Wilderpeople – 6.5

Sort of a Revenant Lite, with a wild pig instead of a bear and a fat 13-year-old instead of Leo DiCaprio. How could you not be charmed, though, by chubby Ricky Baker, a budding juvenile delinquent who runs away cluelessly into the New Zealand outback, where the redoubtable Sam Neill grudgingly tolerates him, then grows fond. For comic relief, the Child Care Services’ version of Inspector Javert pursues Ricky Baker in a chase that culminates in full Mad Max mode. I never understand how people survive out there on berries, leaves and eels, but that wasn’t really the point.