However, when a third island and its ice-cold inhabitants enter the mix, the combatants will have to work together to save their homes from freezing over. This time around, the plot moves away from a character focus on a trio of title birds with emotional baggage to more of a traditional conflict between the bird community and their piggy rivals on the next island over. Alongside the frantic broad strokes, there are funny throwaway gags too Zeta has written a book called ‘Crazy Rich Avians’, a French mime bird voiced by Tony Hale ( Toy Story 4’s Forky) registers, and there’s a fun pay-off to a dog-frozen-in-an-ice-block set-up.Sony's following up on their award-winning animated hit Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with The Angry Birds Movie 2, a sequel to their 2016 hit adaptation of the best-selling mobile game. The best moments involve a giant puppet eagle-cum-Trojan horse used by the gang to enter Zeta’s HQ, including a set-piece of literal toilet humour that ends up more bruising than Mission: Impossible – Fallout’s lavatory-based punch-up. The obligatory smash-and-grab pop-culture raiding includes The Great Escape, Dawson’s Creek, David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ and Harold Faltermeyer’s ‘Axel F’, which becomes the focus of one too many dance-offs. It eventually and perhaps too conveniently crashes into the main plot, but it has the quality of a good self-contained short, taking an absurd idea and having fun with it. Running alongside the main plot is a sub strand involving three hatchlings - baby angry birds knowingly voiced by the children of Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis and Gal Gadot - who have to recapture three eggs that have floated out to sea - it takes in a huge whale, a journey to the stars and a fearsome snake. Brown) and lots of Ethan Hunt-styled dangling. Here we get an assemble-the-team sequence, a mission briefing, a peculiar scene of opera singing in a submarine, Garry the gadget guru (Sterling K. Things pick up immeasurably when The Angry Birds Movie transforms into a Birds-And-Pigs-On-A-Mission movie, as a motley crew try to infiltrate Zeta’s island and disable the super-weapon. ![]() For the most part, this is heavy weather stuff: Red and his buddies Bomb (McBride) and Chuck (Gad) are not the most winning protagonists, the set-pieces, like a speed dating sequence, fall flat, and a battle of wills between Red and sparky super-smart science geek Silver (Bloom) is predictable.Īlongside the frantic broad strokes, there are funny throwaway gags too. ![]() But seeing a chance to earn glory again, he agrees to team up with the Pigs to take down the Eagles. King pig Leonard (Hader) suggests a truce to Red (Sudeikis), the hero of the first film, who is reluctant to accept: if there is no war, he can no longer be a hero and will lose his new-found popularity. Her simple, admirable plan is to use the two islands as a summer vacation escape from her glacial surroundings. ![]() Both Bird and Piggy Island are under attack from Eagle Island, led by purple bird Zeta (Leslie Jones on lively form) who uses a volcano-type super-weapon to lob ice bombs at the avian and porcine communities. After a frenetic pre-credits sequence that throws a lot of gags at the screen and sees what sticks (answer: not a lot), a simple set-up emerges. ![]() Aptly enough for a film about flightless birds, it doesn’t get off to a flying start.
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