#Angry birds 2 video movie#

The movie does not glorify Silver as the team saviour – it merely shows that they work better together when someone who knows what she’s doing is in charge. Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment Rare shot of Silver standing still But Silver remains patient (sometimes infuriatingly so), cleaning up Red’s mess and improvising despite his man-child antics. Red, who thinks of himself as the de-facto leader of the team, brushes her off and inevitably foils her well-laid plans. A physically and mentally superior engineer, the female bird has the foresight and flexibility to plan for every situation, and executes her strategies with quick thinking and precision. The movie makes it clear that everyone in the team except Red thinks that. One of the team members, Silver (voiced by the crazy-amazing-ex-girlfriend Rachel Bloom), is obviously the better leader. But this is rendered as a side-plot the real meat is, instead, the exploration of Red’s egotistical display and strongman leadership – a manifestation of his insecurities – that create more problems than he solved. With the tagline “Frenemies Unite”, you’d think that the movie has a friction-turned-friendship focus. Cue bickering, farcical gadgets, and literal toilet humour (which actually made me laugh, but to my defense, the build up to it was pretty solid). Yet, the escalating threat forces Red and Leonard to put together a shaky team of birds and pigs to save their homes. Pig Island is eager for a ceasefire with Bird Island, but Red resists, worrying that he’d be obsolete and lonely again when there is no war for him to lead. Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment There’s something about the cold weather that makes people want to commit colonisation She is determined to destroy the peaceful lives of both Bird and Pig Island and take over the tropical paradises for herself. The destruction is courtesy of Zeta (Leslie Jones), the brilliant and maniacal queen of the frozen, desolate, and heretofore unknown Eagle Island. However, giant ice cannons started hitting both islands. The two factions are locked in political strife, which is to say the Bird Island leader, Red (Jason Sudeikis) constantly pranks Pig Island’s chief, Leonard (Bill Hader), who’d return the favour. It’s almost hard to tell that the island is actually one of two warring states, the other being Pig Island. Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment Our faces when we saw the Rotten Tomatoes scoreĪngry Birds 2 opens gorgeously to the denizens of Bird Island living the idyllic life, having adopted their greatest weapon – the slingshot – into an effective mode of transportation. The recent earnest but flawed Detective Pikachu (2019) sat at a respectable 68%, while Tomb Raider (2018) got 52% for its troubles. The first Angry Birds movie in 2016 scored only 44%. The average rating that reviewers gave, however, was only 5.73 out of 10.īut this is still the highest any video game adaptation has soared. So, in Angry Birds 2 ’s case, it means that a total of 70 out of 97 critics at press time gave it a ‘fresh’ (Tomato-speak for ‘good’) review, which translates to 72%.

#Angry birds 2 video professional#

In other words, the score is the percentage of professional reviews that are positive. Rotten Tomatoes doesn’t rate movies, but aggregates film critics’ reviews. Some clarification is due: contrary to popular assumption, the scores on Rotten Tomatoes are not the actual ‘grade’ that a movie gets. Source: Sony Pictures Entertainment At least the movie admits it’s recycling gags Why this matters is because video game movies have tended to suck, and the one that is breaking this curse is based on a washed-up mobile game involving hurling flightless birds at green pigs. Except this time he is also carrying a message, which - to everyone’s surprise - he delivers.ĭirected by veteran animator Thurop Van Orman, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is currently the highest-rated video game movie on Rotten Tomatoes, perching proudly at a 72% positive score on the review aggregation site. He’s still the feather-ruffling goofball who can’t go two minutes without frantically tossing out jokes. At the end of that 97-minute hangout sesh, you are desperate for an anger management class yourself. The first Angry Birds movie was like that friend whose sole existence is to pitch toilet humour and innuendoes (with terrible aim), take nothing seriously, and just generally annoy the heck out of you.