![]() "The Angry Birds Movie" is a fun film if you like anthropomorphic animation, bathroom humor (Mighty Eagle has the biggest bladder in bird movie history), endless verbal and visual puns, and explosions. They threw their heads back and laughed! "Nothing! Zilch!" They were just having fun. When my turn came, I asked the directors if they based anything in the film on science, even aerodynamics. I watched "The Angry Birds Movie," looking for signs of science but didn't see much beyond the puns (Birds & Bees Fertility clinic, remarks about bird control, a baby bird imprinting on Red instead of his father, and psychology). I was invited to attend a press screening and an interview with the directors by an organization that promotes science and film. When the birds attack, Leonard's fascist pig militia defends the castle. Sure enough, Leonard has them in a dungeon waiting to hatch them for breakfast. Once at the pigs' island, the birds discover them living in a big mess and surmise that the chicks are being held at the castle in the center of the island protected by Leonard. Once the pigs have sailed off with their captives, Red motivates everyone, even the retired old Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage) to join in the rescue of their young. They seem friendly but are actually there to steal eggs with an invading force of little piggies hidden in the ship's hold (yes, for green ham and eggs) and use TNT to blow their way out to sea. The captain is a big fat green pig named Leonard (Bill Hader), assisted by a small pig named Ross (Tony Hale). One day, a ship approaches and rather than anchor offshore, it plows into Red's house. Their therapist is Matilda (Maya Rudolph), herself a recovering angry bird. There, he meets Chuck (Josh Gad), a yellow bird that speeds Bomb (Danny McBride), a gentle black bird who explodes when he gets mad and Terence (Sean Penn) a gigantic red bird who exudes ferocity. He entertains newly hatched chicks, but after he bombs a customer in a fit of anger, he is sent to bird court and Judge Peckinpah (Keegan-Michael Key) sentences him to anger management classes. Angry birds, after all, don't have many friends. ![]() His house is near the harbor and he likes his mostly solitary existence. Red (Jason Sudeikis) is a fierce bird clown who lives with many flightless birds on a tropical island. ![]() Joined by animators Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly in their directorial debut, "The Angry Birds" is an ornithological and porcine potpourri of every bird and pig pun you've ever seen or heard and voiced by many "Saturday Night Live" alumni.īut let me explain the pig part, because this is where humor and conflict collide. Flying off the gigantic success of its 2009 online video game "Angry Birds," Rovio Entertainment of Finland commissioned a script from animation film and television writer John Vitti ("The Simpsons," "King of the Hill," "Ice Age") for a feature film about the birds that fly via slingshot.
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