![]() ![]() The film’s an eight-and-over joke factory. Plow,” that’s his name) wrote this script, and offers fast pacing and a few creative, left-field jokes, even if he rarely finds a pun he doesn’t abuse. Red doesn’t think he has a problem, and sassy remarks flesh out most of the next 90 minutes. ![]() In therapy, Red meets the daffy, yellow Chuck (a surprisingly non-grating Josh Gad), the prone-to-explosions Bomb (a disappointingly restrained Danny McBride), and the immense, brutish Terence ( Sean Penn, grunting, for what was likely a minimum of a million dollars). Now, none of those details and occurrences make much sense upon second thought. When Red bungles a birthday by accidentally imprinting himself onto a hatching chick, he’s ordered to anger management after fighting his judge. The most objectionable thing is a 30-second piss gag. Need the parent consumer rating guidelines? Throw in some themes about “stranger danger” into the mix, with a little Disney Channel “nuh-uh” attitude, and you’ve got something kids will enjoy and parents will barely tolerate. Yet what exactly is this film? It’s Rovio’s world of characters and objects jammed into a flitting farce about birds fighting pigs (zoologists: don’t ask). Here’s some more puke, poop, and pee jokes for the kids, in thinly agreeable fashion. It should come as no surprise that The Angry Birds Movie is a loud and dumb children’s film, but for what it’s worth, there are plenty of cinematic commercial ventures that are louder and dumber and so on than the well-meaning and slickly sold Birds. The kids love Sean Penn’s boundless vitriol and Oscar-winning credentials in their corporate cartoons. After seemingly dozens of app games, toy lines, a cartoon series, and a reported 50% decline in profits in 2015, why the hell wouldn’t there be a splashy cartoon with name stars and aggressive marketing to polish it all off? Get it, Rovio. The Angry Birds Movie is the inevitable centerpiece of output in the Finnish game developer Rovio’s long commercial strategy. ![]()
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