Five reasons to watch Hunt For The Wilderpeople 10 years on

New Zealand movie Hunt For The Wilderpeople celebrates its 10th anniversary on March 31.

First released in 2016, the film gifted the world loveable tearaway teenager Ricky Baker and his adopted uncle Hector (Sir Sam Neill), a partnership which saw them forced on the run in the bush.

Adapted from Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump, the Kiwi film is back in cinemas this week and presented in 4K to celebrate its decade-long grip on pop culture and the cinema.

The film features some of our most beloved actors Julian Dennison, Sam Neill, Rachel House, Rhys Darby, Rima Te Wiata, Oscar Kightley, Taika Waititi, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Troy Kingi, Cohen Holloway, Stan Walker, Mike Minogue, Hamish Parkinson and Lloyd Scott.

Here are five reasons to watch Hunt For The Wilderpeople at the movies on Wednesday March 31st. 

It's New Zealand's highest-ever grossing film

In its first weekend of release, it smashed box office records raking in $1.263 million.

As of the end of 2016, it had helped the local box office to soar to $206million that year alone.

It gave us the Skuxx life

Julian Dennison was already a rising star, thanks to his performance in film Shopping back in 2013. But his hapless teen Ricky Baker sent his star soaring into the stratosphere. 

It helped the writing was brilliant too, with many of his phrases becoming iconic. Chiefly, his line "I didn't choose the skuxx life, the skuxx life chose me." It went on to spawn memes and was endlessly quoted.

Other catch phrases

Ricky Baker wasn't the only one gifted by brilliant lines in the movie. While others had laughs from dialogue, Rachel House's Child Protection Officer's line "No child left behind" as she and her team hunted for Ricky and Hec during their time in the forest also caught on.

The cast and crew are doing a live Q&A at venues around the country

Director Taika Waititi, stars Rima Te Wiata, Rhys Darby, Sir Sam Neill and others are all attending screenings of the film to mark the anniversary. 

Expect anarchy and reminiscences aplenty as they reunite to catch up on what 10 years of this film has meant to them - rumour has it the various Q&As will be filmed and form part of the movie's 4K home release later this year. All the details are at Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Ricky Baker's birthday song

You can't mention the film without recalling Rima Te Wiata's performance as Bella on the Casio keyboard for Ricky Baker's birthday. Te Wiata revealed the movie hadn't been able to get the rights to sing Happy Birthday so they had to improvise.

The result was iconic, a moment that became a Kiwi cinema legend - and it's capped off even more by the fact of Sam Neill's gruff Hector coughing at the end when the birthday candles smoke gets in his face.

Watch it below - and catch the whole Hunt For The Wilderpeople movie in cinemas again from March 31!