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    Jun 20, 2021 3 minutes
    RUSSELL BAILLIE

    SATURDAY JUNE 26

    THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE 2 (Three, 7.00pm). True, no one thought it possible, but the second movie based on the Angry Birds video-game franchise is somehow better than the first. (2019)

    BARNYARD (Māori TV, 7.00pm). Awful and slightly creepy computer-animated family farm-based comedy that may inspire confusion in anyone who’s actually been on a farm. Here, the animals live in a big happy commune and all the bovines (boys and girls) have udders. (2006)

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