![]() ![]() ![]() But in a world where “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Toy Story” and “The Iron Giant” are easily available, what “Birds 2” offers isn’t nearly good enough. I know this movie is aimed at kids, and kiddie flicks usually don’t demand as much from the brain and serve mostly as entertainment. But if you boil it all down, you get is a lazy, unimaginative sequel that’s not worth the price of admission. There’s so much more that’s wrong with “Angry Birds 2,” from stunningly bad soundtrack choices to one lame attempt to get this movie to make scientific sense. It would get that credit if these themes felt like an organic part of the story, instead of feeling like they were crammed in by the filmmakers at the last minute so the movie “means something.” The way the themes are delivered is yet another chink in this movie’s armor. Maybe “Birds 2” deserves a little credit for delivering themes about teamwork and the damage loneliness can do. Messages that feel ham-handedly crammed in.But it’s still sloppy and eye-rollingly ineffective It’s incredibly forced and feels like it was the best thing the writers could come up with. The plotline involving the three hatchlings feels like it was constructed for the sole purpose of getting said hatchlings into position to serve as a plot point in the movie’s grand finale. The jokes mostly consist of tired cliches and lame slapstick. Aside from the aforementioned Blockbuster Video sight gag, nothing in the movie managed to get me to laugh. ![]() However, nothing misses the mark as badly as the humor. It seems the writers of “Birds 2” were Stormtroopers because nearly everything they try misses. She is the younger twin sister of Chuck and the love interest of Red, who teams up with the birds and pigs to stop Zeta. It’s basically “Seven Samurai” by way of “Black Hawk Down.” It’s dull, unimaginative and as predictable as the sunrise. Silver is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Chuck) of Sony Pictures Animations Angry Birds film duology, serving as the deuteragonist of the 2019 film The Angry Birds Movie 2. The meat of the plot involves Red assembling a team to deal with Zeta to infiltrate Zeta’s stronghold. A dull plot stolen from far better films.The worsts missteps this film takes include: Other than that, “Birds 2” is a litany of cinematic miscues. The film even manages to be funny once, with a simple-yet-clever visual riff on Blockbuster Video. The voice cast does a good job performing and delivering the dialogue. The characters are cute, and the settings are lush and beautiful. There’s precious little that “Birds 2” does well. Along the way, a trio of hatchlings goes on an adventure to save some unhatched eggs. “Birds 2” takes us back to Bird Island, where Red ( Jason Sudeikis) finds he must team with the Birds’ sworn enemies, the Pigs, to stop Zeta ( Leslie Jones), an eagle with a massive chip on her shoulder, from driving the Pigs and Birds from their homes. But it’s rare to see a movie that does almost everything wrong, and in that sense, “The Angry Birds Movie 2” is a true unicorn of cinematic badness. Other times, a film succumbs to damage inflicted by multiple flaws. Sometimes a defect is severe enough to sink a movie on its own. Sometimes the flaws are minor enough that the film can overcome them. Every movie we see is flawed in one way or another. ![]()
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