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The Angry Birds Movie (or simply Angry Birds)[5] is a 2016 Finnish-American 3D computer-animated action-adventure comedyfilm based on the video game series of the same name. It was directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly (in their directorial debuts),[6] produced by John Cohen and Catherine Winder,[7] and written by Jon Vitti.[8] The film was animated by Sony Pictures Imageworks, and stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader and Peter Dinklage.[9] It was released in the United States on May 20, 2016, received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed over $337 million.[4][10]
Contents[hide]Plot
In Bird Island, an island inhabited by flightless birds, Red who lived worst and lonely life because of his orphan status, his bushy eyebrows and everyone made fun of him. He soon gets sentenced to anger management classes after his temper causes a "premature hatching" of a customer's egg when he was working as cake delivering clown.One day, in the middle of a class taught by Matilda and attended by fellow students Charles "Chuck", Bomb, and Terrence, a boat docks at the island's shore. It carries green-colored pigs, who claim to be peaceful explorers bringing offerings of friendship, and are accepted on the island. They introduce the birds to innovative technologies such as slingshots and helium balloons.
More pigs arrive and seemingly adjust to society, but Red becomes suspicious of their motives, as they slowly overwhelm the island. He recruits Chuck and Bomb to help him find Mighty Eagle, a giant bald eagle said to be the protector of the island, and the only bird that can fly. They manage to find him on top of Bird Mountain. But unfortunately, they shockingly discover that Mighty Eagle can barely fly, is self-absorbed, overweight, and largely in retirement. Looking through the Mighty Eagle'sbinoculars, Red's group discover that the pigs are planting explosives around the island, having distracted the birds with a rave party. They realize that the pigs plan to steal the birds' eggs for food. Red and Bomb attempt to retrieve the eggs, while Chuck attempts to warn the rest of the birds, but the pigs escape and their explosives destroy the village. When the birds realize what happened, Red finally gets a chance to help everyone use their own anger and bring their own eggs back.
The birds construct a boat and sail to Piggy Island, where they find the pigs living in a walled city. Deducing the eggs are most likely in the central castle of the city, the birds attack and defeats the pigs by firing themselves into the pig village using a giant slingshot gifted to them by the pigs, which is later accidentally broken by Terence. Red, Chuck, and Bomb make it to the castle and find the eggs in a boiler room, where the pigs plan to cook and eat them. Mighty Eagle arrives, having had a change of heart and remembering the inspiration that Red has gave him, and carries the eggs out.
As the birds escape, an egg falls out and rolls back into the castle. Red returns to the castle, retrieves the egg, and after the long fight between him and Leonard (King of Pigs) he defends the egg and with the help of a huge cooking utensil he takes cover and survives Piggy Island's destruction caused by the pigs' reserve of explosives. Red then saves three, blue newborn birds that hatched from the egg after the explosion. He is declared a hero and given a new home. He, Chuck, and Bomb are approached by Mighty Eagle, who is revealed that he wasn't lazy but rather deliberately made the birds lose faith in him so they could find faith in themselves.
In a mid-credits sequence, it is revealed that some of the pigs survived Piggy Island's destruction and have begun to hatch a new plan to steal the eggs.
In a second mid-credits scene, the three blue birds rescued by Red use the rebuilt slingshot to launch themselves out to sea.
Cast
Production
The film was officially announced in December of 2012, although IGN noted that this was "After months of speculation" [15]The success of the Angry Birds Toons series which according to Rovio employee, Jami Laes, "validated" the idea of creating a feature film.[16] The first image from the film was revealed in October 2014 along with the ensemble cast, which includes Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, and Peter Dinklage.[9] Gad at first declined to star in the movie, feeling it was too similar to his role as Olaf in the 2013 film Frozen but the director eventually convinced him to sign through a 30-minute "visual pitch".[17][18] The film's budget is estimated at $80 million (€75 million).[19] In addition, Rovio and Sony Entertainment will spend roughly €100 million for the marketing and distribution of the film.[19] Exact share was not disclosed, but Rovio will invest in the film over €100 million, which would make it the largest budget in the film industry in Finland, where its most expensive film was Big Game, a 2014 adventure film, made for €8.5 million.[19] Despite the massive budget, Rovio's CEO Mikael Hed stated that "it is the one that I don't ever lose any sleep over",[20] calling it "tremendously strong as a story".[20] During August 2015, Rovio announced that they were expecting to cut 250 jobs equaling 40% of the company. The only sector spared from the job cuts would be personnel working on the movie.[21]
MusicSoundtrack
The Angry Birds Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack[23] is the soundtrack album for The Angry Birds Movie. The album was released on May 6, 2016.[24]
Track listing
Score
Track listing
Release
The film was initially scheduled to be released on July 1, 2016,[32] but it was later moved up to a May 20 release date.[33] On September 23, 2015, the teaser trailer for the film was released onto YouTube,[34] and was shown two days later in theatres for screenings of Hotel Transylvania 2. Four months later, the official theatrical trailer for the film was again released onto YouTube[35] and was shown in theatres for screenings of Kung Fu Panda 3. A showing of the second trailer for theatres in Finland and cinemas in the UK was included in screenings of Kung Fu Panda 3 and Zootopia in Easter 2016.[36]
The film was released in Finland and the UK on May 13, 2016, and in the United States on May 20, 2016.
Promotion
An estimated $300 million marketing effort helped promote The Angry Birds Movie, and along with its production budget, the spending has reached $400 million, making it the biggest-ever campaign for an animated Sony movie, according to executives at the company.[3] Sony's marketing campaign for the film began nine months before its release with the marketinging campaign focused on the characters, their unique personalities and the humor of the voice cast via custom media promotions. Sony partnered with more than 100 partners worldwide including tie-ins with McDonald's, Citroën, Ziploc and Panasonic.[37] To help with the film's promotion, Rovio made a deal with The Lego Group to make a series of 6 Lego sets, scheduled for a spring 2016 release. A balloon themed after Red debuted at the 2015 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to promote the film.[38][39][40]
ReceptionBox office
As of July 10, 2016, The Angry Birds Movie has grossed $106.1 million in North America and $231.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $337.7 million.[4]Worldwide, it is the second highest-grossing video game film of all-time, behind Warcraft ($430.1 million).[41]
In North America, the film opened on May 20, 2016, alongside Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and The Nice Guys and was projected to gross between $35–40 million, possibly going as high as $45 million, from 3,932 theaters in its opening weekend.[37][42][43] Deadline.com noted that the film has the benefit of being the only animated feature until Disney/Pixar's Finding Dory arrives in theaters on June 17.[43] Fandango reported that The Angry Birds Movie was the top selling film for the weekend, pacing in tandem with Hotel Transylvania 2.[37] It grossed $800,000 from its Thursday night previews[37] and $11 million on its opening day.[44] In its opening weekend it grossed $38.2 million, finishing first at the box office and marked the third biggest Sony animated opening of all time, behind Hotel Transylvania and Hotel Transylvania 2.[37][45] It also scored the second-best debut weekend ever for a video game adaptation, behind the $47 million debut of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.[46] It had a 51% drop in its second weekend after facing competition from X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass, grossing $18.7 million.[41]
Internationally, The Angry Birds Movie was released in the Philippines on May 11[47] and 74 other markets (63% of its total marketplace) on May 13, at least one week ahead of its US release. It finished first in 37 territories and second overall at the international box office behind Captain America: Civil War. Benefiting from the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, it grossed $43 million.[48] In its second weekend, it added 9 additional territories including China, South Korea and the Netherlands and grossed $55.5 million from 83 markets.[49] Overall, the top openings for the film was recorded in China ($29.2 million), Russia ($5.7 million), the United Kingdom and Ireland ($3.1 million), Germany ($2.9 million), Mexico ($2.8 million) and Brazil ($2.7 million).[48][49] It opens next in Italy on June 15 and Japan on October 1.[49]
Critical response
The Angry Birds Movie has received mixed reviews from critics.[10] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 43%, based on 136 reviews, with an average rating of 4.9/10. The site'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".[50] On Metacritic the film has a score of 43 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[51] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[52]
Lindsay Bahr of The Associated Press gave the film a positive review by writing, "Ultimately, The Angry Birds Movie does a decent job exploring the merits of anger. It's noInside Out, but it has heart and life, which isn't too shabby for any film – app or not".[53] Variety's Guy Lodge called the film: "A fast, fizzy and frenetically entertaining extension of the manic gaming franchise that, at its zenith, had children of all ages glued to their smartphone screens".[54] While Rafer Guzman of Newsday found the film's plot to be "pretty thin gruel", he thought the script was quite funny and that the animation was brightly colored and appealing.[55]
Glenn Kenny of The New York Times gave the film a negative review and overall said: "The kids of today deserve better. So do I, come to think of it".[56] In his review forTheWrap, Alonso Duralde wrote, "Let's be clear, then: The Angry Birds Movie isn't pointless because it's based on an app. It's pointless because it's pointless".[57] Stephen Whitty of the New York Daily News gave the film one out of five stars and overall said: "The Angry Birds Movie is just fowl".[58]
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