TRAILER
CAST
Jason Sudeikis ... Red (voice)
Josh Gad ... Chuck (voice)
Danny McBride ... Bomb (voice)
Maya Rudolph ... Matilda (voice)
Bill Hader ... Leonard (voice)
PLOTLINE
We've all heard of or played the Angry Birds games. Well, this is the game made into a movie.
Red is the main character and he has "anger issues" according to the other birds, since they are always kind and happy. He gets sent to an anger management class, run by Matilda, and there meets Chuck and Bomb. After a few sessions at the anger management class, a new arrival comes to bird island - the pigs (their leader being Leonard). Everyone except Red accepts the pigs into their community whereas Red is suspicious of the pigs. After he tries to warn the other birds, the pigs steal the eggs and run back to piggy island [so ready for egg omelettes!]. So, how do the birds get their eggs back? They get angry, hence the name of the movie. Red makes a slingshot {like the game} and they attack the pigs so to get their eggs back.
Simple enough for a plotline, right? Yup, that's what I thought.
REVIEW CRITERIA
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
2.5/5 - I was honestly disappointed by this movie. The trailer that I saw was way more entertaining than the movie itself.
It doesn't help that all of the other birds (excluding Bomb and Chuck) don't pay attention to Red and actually exclude him. With what the movie said, it is almost okay to be angry/mad if you are excluded and ridiculed your whole life. That is not what I would want my children (if I had any) or any human to learn. Just because someone is putting you down doesn't make it okay to be angry or destructive. That's the problem with the world today - so many kids attacking schools because they have been bullied and ridiculed. Haven't we learned from Colombine or Sandy Hook? Why can't we stop the bullying and live in peace? Sorry, Angry Birds, but your message about bullying is NOT appropriate for this or any society.
If you want to look beyond the whole "bully and then get angry" theme, this movie was interesting. Not completely appropriate (umm, Mighty Eagle's piss pond is a lake that Chuck and Bomb go swimming in and drinking? Gross!) but interesting.
{Edit April 10, 2017}
CinemaSins:
Everything Wrong with "Angry Birds" in 16 Minutes Or Less
No comments:
Post a Comment