Directors : Clay Kaytis & Fergal Reilly
Cast : Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph & Bill Hader
You might have guessed it. “The Angry Birds Movie 3D” is based on a computer-animated action comedy which again is taken from a video-game series (it doesn’t have to be Marvel Pictures monopoly) but can these ambitious ventures stand 97 long minutes ?
To add to troubles we have debutante directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly steering the effort. The few cute lines in the John Vitti script are like a few grains of corn in bushels of chaff.
Bird Island is inhabited by flyless birds where the reclusive grumpy clown Red (Jason Sukeidis’ voice) is sentenced to “anger management” to tide over his problem.
One fine day a boat docks at Bird Island carrying pigs from Piggy Island led by Leonard (Bill Hader) who claims to be an explorer but Red has serious doubts and recruits classmates Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride) to find Mighty Eagle (Peter Dinklage) on the mountain top.
But the bird leader has lost his might and lies low in the Lake of Wisdom, a probable change of heart. So Red, who slowly grows on the viewer, must find other ways of combating the pigs.
To cut a long film story, Heitor Pereira’s music (“The Cowboy Show”) is the saving grace. Also asides like a Fertility Clinic for the birds and the bees.
The quality of the animation is good but the action slapstick and tiresome. If it was reduced by a third none would object and that’s putting it mildly.
By Ervell E.Menezes
