title : Top Movies - The Angry Birds Movie Review (Spoiler Free) - Movie Reviews Sites
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Top Movies - The Angry Birds Movie Review (Spoiler Free) - Movie Reviews Sites
article2016 Reviews, articleAnimated Films,The battle of bird vs. pig starts once again, but this time, they make their debut on the big screen. Will Red and co. be able to beat the evil green pigs?
Genre: Action/Animation/ComedyDirector: Clay Kaytis & Fergal Reilly
Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader,
Keegan-Michael Key, Tony Hale, Peter Dinklage & Sean Penn.
Keegan-Michael Key, Tony Hale, Peter Dinklage & Sean Penn.
Run Time: 97 min.
US Release: 20 May 2016
UK Release: 12 May 2016
German Release: 13 May 2016
I am writing this a mere hour after having watched the movie and I need to say, this movie managed to piss me off! The Angry Birds Movie is an animated comedy based on the popular Rovio Smartphone game app. It also marks the second game adaptation this year, following the mediocre Ratchet & Clank that debuted last month. What angered me about Angry Birds is the fact that it wasted one-and-a-half hours of my life as it has no redeemable story at all, but does include flat jokes and characters that are incredibly one-dimensional! Nevertheless, it did have some redeemable aspects.
The plot revolves around Red (Sudeikis), a red-feathered bird with some severe anger issues, which manifesting during his unhappy childhood. After assaulting a customer, Red is sentenced by Judge Peckinpah (Key) to anger management classes, lead by bird-therapist Matilda (Rudolph). There he meets fellow angry birds Chuck (Gad), Bomb (McBride) and Terence (Penn). When the island is visited by the mysterious green pig Leonard (Hader), Red is immediately suspicious of his intentions.
The scripted story is by far this animations biggest weakness, taking over two-thirds of its runtime to finally become interesting. The pacing of this adaptation is terribly inconsistent, but mostly moving at snail's speed. The story itself tries to build-up sympathy for the birds by fluffing it out with several anger management meetings and hatching scenes, but it failed at catching the audience’s attention and I felt bored for the longest part of the film. It is sad but true, it looks like the creative team behind this movie put more effort into depicting the third act of the film than trying to build an entertaining and engaging animation overall.
The turning point comes at the end of the second and beginning of the third act, when the pigs show their true nature and set their sinister plan in motion, making the birds need to fight back to prevail their existence. The fight between birds and pigs clearly simulates the game on film and was the best aspect of the plot. It also had a nice message for children, stating that it is all right to be angry as long as it isn’t used as an excuse to do bad things.
However, the dialogues and jokes aren’t that great and aimed at younger children, rather than a mixed audience. The format of dialogue used in this animation definitely copies that of Family Guy, using flashbacks and pop cultural references as its main source. The issue with those, though, are that they don’t suit the target audience since most of them refer to movies and songs from the 80’s and 90’s. It left the children, in the theatre where I watched this movie at, pondering and lead to a minimum amount of laughter.
As I said in the first paragraph, the characters in this movie are not really fleshed out and written in the laziest way, with the only exception being the character of Red, as we get to see a little bit of his back-story that tries to explain where his anger is coming from. Other than that, no other bird or piglet was explored further. The inhabitants of Bird Island are all, more or less, the same: always happy, incredibly naive and not likeable at all. The pigs were also depicted very disappointingly. That said I was really surprised at hearing the voice actors speaking their characters since they matched perfectly!
Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses) lent his voice to the character of Red, the protagonist, and hero of this film. Sudeikis did a fantastic job portraying this character, it felt extremely natural and he also was the only bird that made me chuckle at times. Red himself, is a troubled red bird, unhappy with his life and surroundings. He was an orphan and never fitted in with others and the birds he knew used to make fun of his incredibly big eyebrows. All of this culminates in a big fight with a customer, early on in the movie, that leads Red to serve court-sentenced anger management classes where he finds some friendship.
Visually the movie looks exceptionally good! It is very bright and uses strong colours making it very attractive for the eyes. The animation looks astonishing most of the time, the birds are extremely detailed and vary in form and size while the island is beautifully designed, which makes this a nearly perfect animation visually if it weren’t for the green pigs. These looked, in comparison to the birds, mediocre and very simple and that included their home city. This had the effect of watching two different types of movies; one that used high-quality animation, the other that looked rather fit for TV.
The Angry Birds Movie makes extensive use of famous pop and rock songs from different decades, such as “Rock You Like a Hurricane” from the Scorpions, “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley or “On Top of the World” by Imagine Dragons. The score of the film itself was rather forgettable, just as the movie.
Verdict: After the disappointment that was Ratchet & Clank, I did not expect much from Rovio’s The Angry Birds Movie, which ironically was produced by Sony Pictures as well. I did, however, expect at least a good amount of laughter and here is where the movie disappointed me the most. Instead of laughs, I was served an uncreative and very bland story that uses non-stop cultural pop references from the 80’s and 90’s, but the only problem is that this animation is evidently targeted at kids, who won’t understand those references. I also found the characters to have been developed in the laziest way, but the movie comes around and starts becoming entertaining in the last third of the narrative. Only by then it is too late! I will give The Angry Birds Movie a 5 out of 10!
Do you agree with me or did you leave the cinema feeling different about this game adaptation? Thank you very much for reading and if you liked this review make sure to share it!
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