![]() ![]() To me it seems like the perfect setting for mining even more laughs than the first film. The poster itself gives out the main catch point of the sequel, and that is the birds and the piggies teaming up - “Frenemies”, as they are calling it. Read all about it before it comes out soon! Here is everything we know of the ‘Angry Birds’ sequel. The sequel is all set for an August release date and I can very safely say that all those who ventured into the theatre for the first one will find their way back to the theatres for a second one. Sony animation, which recently saw unprecedented success and an Oscar with ‘Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse’, and its Finnish creator, Rovio entertainment, were quick enough to materialise a sequel especially after The ‘Angry Birds’ movie became the second highest grossing film based on a video game after ‘ Warcraft’ (to be later taken over by ‘ Pokemon: Detective Pikachu’ for #2). What kind of a plot, character development, and leave alone genuine emotion could you draw from an app that double timed as a game? Much to their merit, the makers actually managed to create quite an entertaining film from a wafer thin premise, genuinely intriguing and immensely funny characters and the conversations around them, courtesy of a talented A-list voice cast. 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.Coming back to the film, I sincerely consider that to be an achievement of sorts. 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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