Free Birds Movie

everything about "free Birds" feels perfunctory, from its common name and holiday setting to its starry voice forged and undistinguished use of 3-D.

The puns and popular culture

The puns and popular culture references are bountiful in this Thanksgiving-themed animated journey, but even via the standards of a kids film, the wordplay is quite lame. 

To play the filmmakers' recreation, there's genuinely too much stuffing in this bird: too many characters, subplots, gags and thoughts, which encompass time travel, nutrition and genocide.

Director and co-writer Jimmy Hayward ("Horton Hears a Who!" "Jonah Hex") offers a film that’s sufficiently colorful and cluttered with clever-cracking creatures—speaking turkeys, to be precise—but with the possibility of loss of life lurking about at all times, it never feels particularly active. 

And it clearly doesn’t assist that Hayward’s script, which he co-wrote with longtime Kevin Smith collaborator Scott Mosier (from a tale with the aid of David I. 

Loose chicken

Stern and John J. Strauss—why should these films always be cobbled collectively by committee?) bears such resemblance to superior movies.

The time-tour detail is reminiscent specifically of "The Terminator" and "back to the destiny," while the superb "hen Run" depicted the idea of fleeing chook in a ways greater clever, fascinating fashion. 

but the fine elements of "loose chicken" surely arise inside the beginning, in the cutting-edge, earlier than all and sundry has long gone everywhere.

Owen Wilson affords his familiar, nasal twang as the voice of Reggie, the neatest turkey at the farm and the handiest one who questions why he and his pals get to devour so much corn every day. 

He realizes that the "turkey paradise" his pals dream of is absolutely their own vicious slaughter before ending up as the primary route in a scrumptious Thanksgiving meal.

The farmer for sacrifice

while Reggie attempts to warn his fellow turkeys about their imminent loss of life, they offer him up to the farmer for sacrifice. 

This places him in the proper position while the President of america arrives (whom Hayward voices in a Clintonian rasp) to choose a turkey to receive the annual pardon. 

Reggie receives to fly to Camp David, where he luxuriates inside the wonders of trashy telenovelas, fuzzy slippers and pizza transport.

It’s no twist of fate that the maximum amusing Reggie’s ever had in his existence is the most fun we've got, too.  

The first Thanksgiving

From here, "unfastened Birds" flies in a wildly unique path, with Reggie being abducted and pressured right into a secret assignment via a massive, severe and in all likelihood delusional turkey named Jake (Woody Harrelson).

Jake insists that The exceptional Turkey has visited him and entrusted him with the obligation of touring back in time to Plymouth Colony in 1621, simply earlier than the first Thanksgiving, to keep turkeys off the menu and store his brethren for all eternity. 

(by no means thoughts that turkey exists in sandwiches and chili and burgers and many other terrific food objects.) 

And what do you recognize? There simply occurs to be a time device at Camp David (which is going with the aid of the code name STEVE and is voiced by way of George Takei).

The heart-tugging own family

Magically, Reggie and Jake commandeer the craft and reach their destination. however once they come within the past, they locate themselves the goals of Myles Standish (Colm Meaney), who’s looking to hunt as many turkeys as feasible to feed the starving colonists in addition to the nearby local people for his or her upcoming banquet. 

A feisty turkey named Jenny (Amy Poehler) and her father, the tribal leader chief Broadbeak (Keith David), rescue them and the four be a part of forces to a) ruin the humans’ weapons, b) rescue their captive brethren, and c) prevent turkey from becoming the staple of Thanksgiving feasts all the time.

nothing on this complex, convoluted narrative is ever specifically thrilling or funny. The romance that bureaucracy among Reggie and Jenny feels useless and uninspired, at the same time as the heart-tugging own family drama at the quit seems unearned and pressured. 

Worst of all, "loose Birds" goals for historic importance with the aid of the usage of the turkey slayings as a metaphor for the cruelties native americans have suffered.