3/21/2023 0 Comments Angry birds 2 reviews![]() ![]() In a cute piece of Hollywood in-joke casting, the children of Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis and Gal Gadot also have minor speaking roles as the cute hatchling chicks. The sequel moves fruitfully away from this source material by expanding the story’s narrative bandwidth and character count, drawing on a broad list of starry vocal talents including Peter Dinklage, Maya Rudolph, Danny McBride, Nicki Minaj and Awkwafina. 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.The plot of the first Angry Birds movie at least paid lip service to the original game, with its ballistic battles between the multicolored avian residents of Bird Island, led by short-fuse anti-hero Red ( Jason Sudeikis), and their green-hued porcine enemies on Pig Island, led by boorish Lester ( Bill Hader). 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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