![]() Despite a complete replacement of the first film’s writing and directing teams - with acclaimed, offbeat TV animator Thurop Van Orman brashly taking the reins in his first feature assignment - this second loopy adventure for misfit cardinal Red and his feathered-but-flightless friends maintains the balance of scattergun jokes, candy-coated visuals and cheerfully bird-brained storytelling that raked in $350 million worldwide in 2016. Peace of any kind is in short supply in “ The Angry Birds Movie 2,” another breathless, frenetic cartoon escapade derived from the once-ubiquitous video game franchise, and again its manic, catapulting comic energy is more appealing than those origins might suggest. If there’s any lesson here, it’s to always expect the unexpected when it comes to “Angry Birds.“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson - though he reckoned without the Angry Birds making a virtue of that trade. And yet it also surprisingly deals with real emotional issues like abandonment, rage, scorn and self-worth. Often, we stray from the main plot to a minor side plot involving a trio of large-eyed, baby-talking hatchlings. The film flits from set piece to set piece, from lava bombs to bird dating. “The Angry Birds Movie 2” is somehow looser, more disjointed and yet deeper than the first. Mayhem, dance battles, bathroom showdowns and outlandish feats of physics ensue. The enterprising yet immature group is made up of speedy Chuck (Josh Gad), explosive Bomb (Danny McBride) and a new team member, the bright engineering student Silver (Rachel Bloom). Nevertheless, Red and Leonard assemble a team, “Ocean’s Eleven”-style, to sneak into Zeta’s lair, “Mission: Impossible”-style, and end the bombing campaign. If they have speed-dating on Bird Island, you would think they might also have therapy. ![]() Red reluctantly agrees to team up with Leonard because he believes his only worth lies in his identity as a rebel hero. ![]() ![]() More: 'Home Improvement' is Michigan's favorite '90s sitcom, study says ![]() More: ‘Scary Stories’ is a likable Frankenstein of a movie The offending invader is Zeta (Leslie Jones), an embittered eagle who has marshaled all her tremendous scientific might into launching ice bombs (and then lava-filled ice bombs) at Bird Island and Piggy Island because her own island is “too cold” and she’d like a tropical vacation. This time out, the birds and pigs must band together to survive as a mysterious third party has launched an all-out attack on them in a ruthless land grab. After leading a guerrilla mission on Piggy Island to rescue the eggs from the porky pioneers, angry outcast Red (Jason Sudeikis) became a folk hero. In the first film, peaceful flightless birds battled the invasion of an ingratiating porcine population, led by Leonard (voiced by Bill Hader), who had the ulterior motive of stealing their eggs for food. The saga is a tale of the violent horrors of colonialism. But it’s not all just pop music and toilet humor (though that’s a lot of it). ![]()
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