PREVIEW: Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal (U)

WHO’S IN IT?

Angourie Rice (The Nice Guys), Sam Neill (Hunt for the Wilderpeople), Sharnee Tones (Combat Wombat), Grant Denyer (Horseplay), Lucy Durack (Remembering Nigel), Frank Woodley (Oddball and the Penguins), Andrew Cook (film debut), Ricard Cussó (The Wishmas Tree), Karl Stefanovic (film debut), Alison Langdon (film debut), Richard Wilkins (film debut), Ryan Renshaw (The Wishmas Tree)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Ricard Cussó (Combat Wombat), director; Ryan Greaves (The Wishmas Tree), writer; Nadine Bates (Combat Wombat) and Kristen Souvlis (The Wishmas Tree), producers; Ack Kinmonth (Combat Wombat), composer; Michelle McGilvray (Combat Wombat), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Daisy (Rice), an impossibly cute and eternally optimistic young quokka, has a dream to win the annual “World’s Scariest Animal” competition. She soon finds a coach in washed-up former champion Frankie Scales (Neill), a Saltwater Crocodile, who reluctantly guides young Daisy through her training and eventual competing in the tournament itself…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This cute and charming Australian family film, featuring the voices of Sam Neill and Angourie Rice, is a neat sports-themed movie for the whole family, just in time for the upcoming Olympics.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 2ND JULY 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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