Chuck’s a speed demon and Bomb can literally explode at a minute’s notice. While Red’s character gets a definite arc, Chuck, Bomb and Leonard have to play on their special powers and unbridled cuteness, to impress the audience. Together the trio are in a good form, bringing in a bulk of the laughs with their goofy acts. To save the Bird Island, Red along with his winged buddies Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride) must work with their ace nemesis, the king pig Leonard Mudbeard (Bill Hader). Leading the pack is the hot-headed Red (Jason Sudeikis), who has pretty much become symbolic of the franchise. The makers throw in a lot of slapstick comedy by a battery of old and new characters of all shapes, sizes and colours. Right from the first scene, it’s established that this sequel of ‘The Angry Birds’ is strictly a kiddie flick and thankfully, it never tries to be anything other than that. Review: Three islands, lives at stake and a battle for survival - sounds like a pretty serious plot for an animated film, but this one’s far from it. Will their uncanny alliance save the day for the frenemies? 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.Story: In this sequel, the flightless angry birds and the green piggies must put their rivalry on hold and come together to save their islands from a rogue eagle named Zeta (Leslie Jones).

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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