The Angry Birds Movie

The Angry Birds Movie (or simply Angry Birds onscreen) is a 2016 3D computer-animated Finnish-American comedy film based on the video game series of the same name created by the Finnish IOS and Android game company Rovio Entertainment, but it can also be interpreted to be a prequel to, or an origin story behind the original game. The film premired in Paris on May 5, 2016 and was released in Finland on May 13, 2016, and in the United States on May 20, 2016 in RealD 3D and 4DX.

Produced by Rovio Animation (a division of Rovio Entertainment), it was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly in their directorial debuts, and written by Jon Vitti. The film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. A sequel, mh:greatestmovies:The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released in August 13, 2019, with Sony Pictures Animation, which was not involved with this film, co-produced the film, respectively.

Plot
Flightless birds lead a mostly happy existence, except for Red (Jason Sudeikis), who just can't get past the daily annoyances of life. His temperament leads him to anger management class, where he meets fellow misfits Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride). Red becomes even more agitated when his feathered brethren welcome green pigs to their island paradise. As the swine begin to get under his skin, Red joins forces with Chuck and Bomb to investigate the real reason behind their mysterious arrival.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Since the movie was based on a game with minimal plot, it goes to show throughout the movie that the writers quickly struggled with ideas regarding the plot. This as a result makes a lot of plot points feel tacked on with no setup, and causes a film to lack a bigger picture for the most part.
 * 2) *There's even the typical emotional low point before the climax, which has been overdone countless times. Unlike most films with this type of scene however, this one feels forced considering how idiotic most of the characters are.
 * 3) Most of the humor is unfunny, stale and repetitive, especially once the pigs arrive. A lot of the humor mostly involves things such as butt jokes, crotch jokes, bad bird/pig puns, toiletries and/or bathroom humor. A few examples include:
 * 4) *Perhaps the biggest example is an unnecessarily long and disgusting scene where Red, Chuck, and Bomb found out that the Mighty Eagle urinates in a lake that Chuck and Bomb were swimming in, and drinking out of.
 * 5) *When Red, Chuck, and Bomb were making their way to the Mighty Eagle, Chuck and Bomb create what they imagine to be his battle cry. This caused them to make a variety of obnoxious barn animal noises.
 * 6) A lot of the characters are unlikable, annoying, cliched, and idiotic in a bad way. A bunch of them also act nothing like how they are in the games and cartoons.
 * 7) *Judge Peckinpah acts as a jerk and nuisance towards Red in the first half of the movie, though it’s kind of justified. However, he later did learn the Red's lesson and apologies to him after the pigs got stolen eggs.
 * 8) *Red's angry and cynical personality is overused, which causes this behavior to get stale rather fast.
 * 9) *Chuck and Bomb are very obnoxious, with them imitating the Mighty Eagle's battle cry as mentioned above being a good example.
 * 10) *The Mighty Eagle went from being a wise and powerful, yet intimidating, to a lazy and arrogant slacker who does nothing important at all until the final battle. However, this can be somewhat justified given that this took place before any of the games.
 * 11) *Literally none of the other birds aside from Red suspect the pigs are up to no good despite how obvious it is.
 * 12) The plot copies elements from previous Sony Pictures Animation films. For example: in Surf's Up, there's this famous surfer penguin named "Big Z" who everyone looks up to, but it turns out he became overweight and washed-up, which is exactly what happened to the Mighty Eagle in this movie.
 * 13) The film has too many pop-culture references.
 * 14) The soundtrack contains too many songs that either don't fit their respective scenes, or are utilized in a cringeworthy way.
 * 15) The scene where the pigs were actually villainous and steal the eggs this whole time is not only extremely obvious plot twist, even for viewers who are unfamiliar to the franchise, but also spoiled by marketing promotion, such as trailers and posters.
 * 16) The final battle between the birds and the pigs is a poorly done mess. It's far too fast paced, and has far too many things going on at once. There's nothing particularly interesting about the battle either, making it rather forgettable.
 * 17) The title is somewhat misleading, as the birds are all happy and cheerful and not angry for most of the film except for Red, and even then he is mostly just irritated than outright angry.
 * 18) Although the voice acting is great and talented, Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox do not do that good job for voicing Hal and Bubbles as they sound nothing like in the TV show. Plus: Despite having their names being labeled in the main cast, they do not get as much screen time as the other main characters. However, their lack of appearances were made up in an animated short which focuses on them, and it was animated in flash.
 * 19) The character designs (often referred to by fans as the "Movie Designs") may be considered questionable by many, although it is serviceable for something like a movie adaptation. What ruined them was that Rovio overused the movie designs in all future Angry Birds related media for no reason.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Unlike many other movie adaptations of video games, this film does a good job at remaining faithful to the source material (aside from the birds having wings and feet and not being angry for the most part), and includes plenty of nice references to the games. Examples include Red telling Ava's family about three star ranking, the birds using their special abilities at least during the movie, and the pigs using vehicles to fight back against the birds.
 * 2) The animation is very fluid and detailed, with backgrounds that have a great attention-to-detail, seeing as Bird Island is a major treat for the eyes.
 * 3) *The character designs designs are also very good, expressive, and full of life, even if the addition of limbs made the designs not as faithful to the games.
 * 4) There is a few funny scenes, such as the scene where Chuck gets a speeding ticket, and the scenes involving Terence.
 * 5) Speaking of Terence, he's more expressive than ever in this movie. He's shown smiling more often, crying, laughing and even singing in the end.
 * 6) Aside of his cynical and angry behavior, Red is a pretty likable and relatable character, especially since he's the only character who isn't obnoxious and moronic. He did received character development.
 * 7) * Others characters (as The Blues) can be likable at times.
 * 8) Great and talented voice acting thanks to having an all-star cast, except Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox.
 * 9) Although the soundtrack overuses unfitting pop-culture songs, the ones composed for this movie are well made, especially "The Angry Birds Movie Score Medley" from Heitor Pereira.
 * 10) *Though to be fair, some of the pop songs are legit bops, especially Charli XCX's "Explode" and Blake Shelton's "Friends" (the song that plays during the pigs' cowboy show).
 * 11) This movie actually has the message about fighting back, "You have to take back what's yours by fighting back" when Red encourages the rest of the birds to let their anger loose.
 * 12) Judge Peckinpah became likable towards Red in the other half of the movie and he and the other birds learned Red's lesson and apologies to him after the pigs steal the eggs.
 * 13) The ending isn't that bad.
 * 14) The idea of having the origin movie story of the Angry Birds is interesting.

Reception
The Angry Birds Movie received mostly mixed reception who praised the soundtrack, animation and voice acting, criticized the story and humor. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 43% based on 159 reviews and an average rating of 4.94/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "The Angry Birds Movie is substantially more entertaining than any film adapted from an app has any right to be—which may or may not be much of an endorsement." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 43 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

The sequel, mh:greatestmovies:The Angry Birds Movie 2, is widely considered to be an improvement from this film, and reduced a bunch of problems present in this film, although the movie still has inappropriate humor even worse and less faithful to the game than this and underperformed at the box office.

Box office
The Angry Birds Movie was a box office success, grossing over $352 million worldwide and becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of all time to be based on a video game, behind Warcraft, Detective Pikachu, and Rampage.

Trivia

 * Danny McBride and Bill Hader (the voices of Bomb and Leonard respectively) later starred in Sausage Party (2016), as the voices of Honey Mustard and Firewater, which is also distributed by Columbia Pictures.
 * This is the first film not to produced by Sony Pictures Animation (although the sequel does produced), since Monster House.