angry birds with friends video june 20th

Our hero, Red ( Jason Sudeikis, as the little red bird with the angry, angry eyebrows who's the face of the video game), has every reason to be mad at the villainous pigs whose ship accidentally wrecked his house when they arrived on Bird Island. In the end, though, Angry Birds falls just short of this aim it can never quite make up its mind on how it feels about anger, vacillating wildly between finding it valuable and presenting it as something to be avoided, unpredictable and frightening. Its plot - in which an otherwise likable guy with a dark chapter in his personal history that he doesn't want to talk about gets paired up with some obnoxious companions he comes to embrace as friends - is straight out of the Pixar playbook, and Angry Birds is littered with the sorts of background gags and ensemble comic scenes that Pixar excels at.īut the movie's most telling lift is perhaps its well-intentioned message about how valuable it is to feel angry - similar to how Pixar's 2015 release Inside Out ended up being about how you need to feel sad to be able to feel happy again. SonyĮverything about Angry Birds feels like an off-brand Pixar movie. Angry Birds is like Inside Out, but for anger and not nearly as good Red is so angry all of the time. Angry Birds could be gonzo instead, it's just kinda.

By the time the film has become a big-screen version of the famous mobile game on which it's very loosely based, it no longer has a reason to exist beyond brand extension. Unfortunately, Angry Birds just can't make anything stick. Somewhere within it is a weirdo parable about how immigrants will rob you and wreck your life, and then head back to their native land, and the movie seems blissfully unaware of this reading.

If you think you're angry, Angry Birds says, well, you're not angry enough. At the center of the film is the idea that anger is the emotion most worth feeling, because life is unjust, and people are coming from a far-off land to steal your stuff.

Angry birds with friends video june 20th