Review of The Angry Birds Movie (2016) by Freedomfighters — 04 Jun 2018

You know, it honestly blows my mind that this is one of the highest-rating video game-based films on Rotten Tomatoes. I have to wonder if that speaks to the quality of video game-based films in general (I've only seen a select fews), because if THIS is really one of the BEST out of them, I'm terrified to watch any of the others! "The Angry Birds Movie" is lucky that it at least looks pretty, because there is almost nothing else going for it! There's not ONE character in the movie worth rooting for (I can't even remember their names)! There's not one joke in the movie that doesn't feel like it's going on for way too long (specifically the bird peeing)! Why is the damn movie so mean-spirited, even for something called "Angry Birds?" What the hell kind of lesson does this teach kids? That anger is all you need to succeed? Come on! And speaking of which, for a movie geared at kids, why are so many of the jokes in here so un-kid-friendly? This isn't even a movie I can recommend for families, because the jokes aren't even family-friendly! This is a movie I recommend if you're really hating yourself and you want to test your patience for an hour and a half.

This is a movie where I don't sympathize with the characters, but I sympathize with anyone who had to sit through it. Yet another giant pile of dreck from the kings and queens of dreck, Sony Pictures Animation.