It really is ridiculous how big Angry Birds has gotten over the years.
Plot: Red is a flightless bird that lives in Bird Island where other flightless birds live happy-go-lucky lives. Red however is very angry and cynical and thus is forced by the community to take anger management class. The island is later visited by pigs who want to make peace with the birds and everyone but Red believes them. So it's up to Red and his two friends Chuck and Bomb to figure out what the pigs are really up to.
When I went to see this film, I came with the hopes that it could be not great but harmless. When I left the theater afterwords however I was right about it being not great... but surprisingly not so much with it being harmless.
Before I get to the bad stuff, I do have to reluctantly point out that the animation is great. The designs of the characters where distinct, some of the comedic facial expressions where good, and you can really notice the detail they put into the feathers of each and every bird. No matter how much I dislike the movie in the long run, I can't write this review without admitting that the animation is definitely a plus for it no matter how much I don't want to.
With the one definite positive out of the way however, you can probably figure out just from reading the plot paragraph to this review that the story is not very original. Chances are, you have a good idea what happens almost from beginning to end. The characters are also so bland that you know that you've seen them before in other films even if you can't think of where. On the one hand, you might not even care because all you want to see is the birds fighting the pigs just like in the app except its on the big screen and you can care less about the story or the characters. This is fine in that there really is so much you can do given such a simple yet odd story for a game on your smart phone. But on the other hand, the action that you're expecting doesn't come until the climax of the movie, and so you are left watching a story that has been done many times before with characters you have seen just as many times if not more. The only character that was enjoyable in anyway was Terrace, and he mostly just stood still and growled with a stern frown on his face.
What bothered me the most in this movie was the humor. Granted, I will admit that there were some jokes that at least made me briefly chuckle with my mouth closed and once in a very long while I'll laugh a little bit. But the majority of the humor ranged from being bland and unamusing to surprisingly inappropriate. There is an uncomfortable amount of sex jokes in this movie that are not only bad, but undeniably direct. There's even a moment when Chuck plainly suggests that he and the female birds "get it on" while doing rapid pelvic thrusts. I couldn't believe that I was watching this. Aren't kids expected to watch this movie?
And that's my review for Angry Birds. If you are a big fan of the app and just want to see birds knocking down buildings and TNT blowing up and whatnot, you'll get it, it's just not there until the very last 20 minutes or so of the film. But aside from that, unless you enjoy mindless sex jokes and care less about the story or characters even though they take the majority of the film, this is another video game film that you should pass on.
Rating: 25%
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