The Angry Birds Movie 2

Let’s offer up some praise for this sequel-to-a-movie-based-on-a-smartphone-game, for finding a way to actually improve on the 2016 original in a way that’s clever but not snarky, sweet but not syrupy.

The tone and the plot take some time to settle, but once they’ve hit their stride (and adults decide to surrender their senses and go along for the ride), the bird and pig unit become almost affable in their daftness.

None of the characters are awful, even in their selfish lows. Leonard is blithely affable, backed by his occasionally useful sidekick, Courtney (Awkwafina), so it's OK that he sides with Red (much as Red resents it).

The whole is less than the sum of its parts, but those parts just about make the grade.

This is one sequel you can’t fault for effort, and the dud jokes are far outnumbered by the ones that are just about cute, smart or screwy enough to nudge out a laugh.

It may lack the refined wit and revered pedigree of blue-chip animation franchises such as Toy Story, but it still ticks plenty of lightweight fun boxes for its prime target audience of younger children, with just enough adult humor to keep parents from yawning, too.

It’s a clinical product crafted on the assembly line of the studio floor with pieces plucked liberally from better movies before it, and crammed so thoroughly with sight gags and wordplay it hopes you won’t notice that there’s no “there” there.

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I didn't like this one as much as the first one. Hear me out. I know the target audience isn't alone above maybe 10 years old. But the first movie was definitely easier to swallow for anyone above 15. I liked some moments, but the entire sidequest of the little birds was not necessary to the main plot. Plus if they got the skin from that snake, they straight killed that snake.

There are seemingly two major kinds of animated movies; those that are concerned with telling a good story, and those that just want to make people laugh at ridiculous humor. Angry Birds 2 is most definitely the latter. In fact, it's so light on plot that they had to splice in cutaways to what is essentially an animated short in order to reach feature length. The majority of the returning side-characters are given so little to do that the only reason I can think of as to why they were brought back is because they had significant roles in the first one, and the new additions, villainous or otherwise, fail to make much of an impression. As a result, Red and his love interest Silver are the only ones who feel important in any way, shape, or form. They're at least given something of an arc to grow and learn from while the rest just act goofy or stupid the entire time. None of this matters too much though as children's films like this tend to live or die by how funny they are, rather than things like the actual quality of the writing. I doubt there's a kid alive that wouldn't find this absolutely hilarious. So it has its target audience in the bag. Adults on the other hand will likely struggle with just how irreverent it all is. For example, during a speed dating event one of the main trio boldly declares to a potential partner that he "eats dirt." He then proceeds to open his mouth and sure enough it's full of dirt. That's a little too dumb for my blood. Plus, for the life of me I'll never understand how men in thongs and just butts in general have become the height of prepubescent comedy. That kind of stuff didn't make me laugh back in the day and it doesn't get to me now. As hit or miss as it may be the older you get, it's still guaranteed to tickle your funny bone at some point or another. That's because Angry Birds 2 covers a wide array of humor in an effort to fill every single second with a joke of some kind. The entire stretch with the eagle disguise is nothing short of pure gold and had me guffawing to the point where I could barely breathe. I also caught myself cracking up every now and then at the occasional clever one-liner or bit of slapstick. A truly great animated film would leave you gawking at the beauty of its animation, rolling on the floor at it's comedy, and pondering over the complexities of its narrative. However, Angry Birds 2 shows that two out of three ain't bad. Particularly as far as the youngsters are concerned. This isn't Pixar so I can't recommend that anyone with a driver's license watch it on their own, but if you get pulled into it for a family movie night or something it is sporadically amusing. There's just not enough here to truly engage you.

"If you've seen the trailer you've seen all the best parts." More of the same from the first and full of predictable movie cliches. Your kids will like/love it and you'll wish your kids had better taste in movies. D+

I just hope the movie industry will realize that movies surrounding video games are not a good idea.