There is so much snark, cynicism, and ‘who, me?’ mixed in to his performance. Hader as the Pig King, Leonard, is genius. The cast draws heavily upon Saturday Night Live‘s talent pool with Maya Rudolph, Jason Sudeikis, and Bill Hader leading the performances. I woke up in time to see the Bad Piggies land on Angry Bird Island and start a classic traveling snake oil salesman / Trojan Horse schtick to set the birds up to steal all their eggs. It’s actually quite clever. The beginning drags a bit as we get the set up of why Red is angry, why the other birds aren’t, and why the pigs want eggs, etc Honestly, I would have thought an Angry Birds movie would have been better timed 3 years ago, when peak Angry Birds was hit, but this simple little video game has embedded itself so tightly with preschool culture, that I guess it didn’t matter when it came out frankly.Īs with many of the movies I am dragged along to with my boys, I fell asleep in this one. The spin-offs of Angry Birds have been littanous since they dominated the iOS market immediately after being released in December 2009. Then came the Star Wars versions, the go kart versions, the Transformers versions, the tshirts, the stuffies, the board games, the. My entire life with children has been spent flinging birds in slingshots at towers of cubes and pigs.
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