“The Angry Birds Movie” knows it’s about the candy-colored details rather than any bigger picture: Viewers may well have forgotten what even happened before the closing-credits diversions - suitably soundtracked to Demi Lovato sugar-rush cover of “I Will Survive” - are through, but the most outlandish gags will stick longest. There’s an environmentalist allegory to be drawn from their showdown, not that the filmmakers are overly concerned with such subtext given such a merry array of one-and-done jokes and equally disposable plot asides to charge through. Though Bird Island is already heavily anthropomorphized - complete with wood-carved selfies and mother-chick yoga classes - the mutually marauding antics that ensue pit the pigs as vulgarly humanoid, egg-guzzling antagonists to their unspoiled idyll. More than anything, these grunting invaders crave a delicacy that a dyslexic Dr. Experienced “Angry Birds” players will know he’s right to be wary. Greater focus and tension arrive with a ship full of visitors from distant Piggy Island: Bearing slingshots, fruit baskets and a penchant for Blake Shelton music, these green-skinned porkers claim to come in peace, with only Red unpopularly questioning their goodwill. Their combined antics consume a fun but somewhat distracted first third. There, Red aligns with characters who’ll be familiar to viewers of spinoff TV series “Angry Birds Toons”: hyperactive cock-of-the-walk Chuck (Josh Gad), potentially explosive dim-bulb Bomb (Danny McBride) and menacing, inarticulate lummox Terence (given a low, steady growl by Sean Penn, the wittiest casting pick of the film’s all-star voice ensemble). (She bills herself as a “free rage chicken” if that tickles you, prepare to guffaw consistently for 97 minutes.) An ensuing bout of avian rage against his employers lands the aptly colored Red - already a social outcast in his otherwise jolly community - in court, where he’s handed the island’s maximum penalty: anger management classes with New Age-y therapist Matilda (Maya Rudolph). A breakneck pre-credit sequence zips through the lush, iridescent foliage of Bird Island, a peaceable kingdom of complacently flightless fowl, introducing its hapless, heavy-browed hero Red (sparkily voiced by Jason Sudeikis) mid-assignment as an inauspiciously cranky children’s entertainer. If anything, the high-gloss beauty of the production sits slightly at odds with the gleefully scrappy approach of writer Jon Vitti (“The Simpsons,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks”), whose hell-for-feather screenplay catapult-fires a barrage of stray media references, coarse sight gags and deliciously terrible punnery at viewers - rendering the game’s simple birds-versus-pigs narrative motor practically incidental. If “The Angry Birds Movie” arguably arrives a couple of years past the pop-cultural peak of its source material, the finished film justifies Rovio’s avoidance of a quicker cash-in effort: Brightly accessible to viewers who have never so much as tapped the app, it could easily found a big-screen franchise of its own. credits to their names, it’s an impressive step up to the plate: From the reach-out-and-touch-the-screen plushness of the eponymous creatures’ plumage to the carefully considered 3D design, the film is a frequently dazzling feat of craftsmanship, saturated in tropical oil-pastel shades. Go to our "About" section on our home page to learn more about the wiki.For first-time feature directors Clay Katis and Fergal Reilly, both longtime studio animators with major Disney and Warner Bros.Got any questions? Feel free to contact an administrator or a moderator for help.Add some Userboxes to tell everyone about yourself! Please make sure you do not post fanon material in our mainspace articles.If you are the artist yourself, you must select the "I created this image myself" ( template ) option when uploading. Per our image policy, any non-official or non-Angry Birds/Bad Piggies images must be added to said user's profile page, or else they may be deleted.Please read our Forum guidelines before you begin posting. Please read our Rules and Edit Manual before you begin editing.You can go to our Community Portal to get a quick start about us and what you can do to help!.Before editing, take note of the following: Hello, and welcome to the Angry Birds Wiki! A place where you could find or share information about the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies series.
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