The Angry Birds Movie

The Angry Birds Movie gets the job done, but there are strange tonal shifts here and a surprising amount of off-color jokes.

The Angry Birds Movie is really not bad. It is actually very actively okay. The film has taken its bird-brained brand... and used it to construct characters and plots that are certainly serviceable, and possibly even inspired.

The Angry Birds Movie is childish and occasionally cute and capitalises on the game's once addictive popularity.

Maybe at this point it's too much to hope for an animated film like The Angry Birds Movie to exist as anything other than marketing fodder, but hopefully it's not too much to ask for that #content to have a shred of substance to it.

Angry Birds could be gonzo; instead, it's just kinda... there.

Both children and adults will delight in the way the destruction of the pigs' island amplifies the joys of the original game. The effect is an amusing reversal of cultural recognition as the role of the icons expands through reproduction ...

...a blisteringly-paced animated endeavor that never becomes as tedious and grating as one might’ve feared...

About as plot heavy as you'd imagine a movie based on an app would be. It's an underdog tale with messages of never giving up and being true to yourself but mostly its an excuse for bad bird jokes and lots of fine feathered action.

Why am I even being asked to invest in these cute little bird characters when I know their ultimate fate is a slingshot-launched kamikaze mission?

The Angry Birds Movie is definitely one of the more enjoyable video game adaptations for the big screen, likely because it stays true to the game's style: simple and fun.