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    Apr 16, 2023 4 minutes

    SATURDAY APRIL 22

    ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH

    Unhappy landings

    Three, 7.00pm

    Derivative animated sci-fi comedy about alien astronauts from the planet Baab sending a mission to Earth where one of them, Scorch, a Buzz Lightyear clone voiced by Brendan Fraser, is captured, forcing his brother on a rescue mission. Despite having a starry voice line-up, including William Shatner as villainous Area 51 boss “General William T Shanker" and Ricky Gervais as a sarcastic mission-control computer, it’s just not very funny. (2013)

    BIRDS LIKE US

    Balkan avian animation

    Whakaata Māori, 7.00pm

    Finally, the Bosnian-Turkish cartoon feature of the 12th-century Persian poem by Farid ud-Din Attar we’ve all been waiting

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