New Zealand Listener - May 26, 2018

MAY 26 2018 LISTENER 67

SATURDAY MAY 26

Big Hero 6 (TVNZ 2, 5.10pm).

Family fun featuring some

beautifully detailed animation

and a new kind of superhero.

Baymax is a healthcare robot

invented by the older brother

of lead character Hiro “to heal

the sick and injured”. He gives

hugs, which is nice, and helps

Hiro’s grieving family as well

as fighting the bad guy, of

course. (2014)

Jumanji (TVNZ 2, 7.00pm).

The effects no doubt look

rudimentary now, especially

the CGI monkeys, but this

is adventure fun straight out

of the Spielberg playbook.

Robin Williams is at his best

as the boy who grew up in the

jungle after being sucked into

the enchanted board game

Jumanji. And isn’t that little

Kirsten Dunst? (1995)

Titanic (Three, 7.00pm). You

know the way it goes: girl

meets boy, girl loses boy

in a horrific ocean disaster

involving an iceberg. James

Cameron’s clear-eyed abil-

ity with an epic tale rivals,

perhaps surpasses, Spielberg’s.

Titanic won 11 Oscars and

became the highest-grossing

film of all time until it was sur-

passed by ... Cameron’s Avatar

in 2009. (1997)

A Guide to the Week’s Viewing

TV Films

Big Hero 6, Saturday.

by FIONA REA