There, Red aligns with characters who’ll be familiar to viewers of spinoff TV series “Angry Birds Toons”: hyperactive cock-of-the-walk Chuck(Josh Gad), potentially explosive dim-bulb Bomb(Danny McBride) and menacing, inarticulate lummox Terence(given a low, steady growl by Sean Penn, the wittiest casting pickThe Angry Birds Movie has flown to new heights, circling$300 million in worldwide box office, and the Hatchlings are celebrating in their own incredibly cute way. Everyone’s favorite fluffy little birds, voiced by young children, star in a brand new short, "The Early Hatchling Gets The Worm, " viewable in select theaters starting this weekend, it was announced today by Sony Pictures .The mischievous green villains from the Angry Birds games and The Angry Birds Movie are returning to screens for Piggy Tales: Third Act, the third season of the popular animated online series from Rovio Animation.
of the film’s all-star voice ensemble). Their combined antics consume a fun but somewhat distracted first third. Greater focus and tension arrive with a ship full of visitors from distant Piggy Island: Bearing slingshots, fruit baskets and a penchant for Blake Shelton music, these green-skinned porkers claim to come in peace, with only Red unpopularly questioning their goodwill. Experienced “Angry Birds” players will know he’s right to be wary. More than anything, these grunting invaders crave a delicacy that a dyslexic Dr. Seuss might pair with green ham: eggs.
Though Bird Island is already heavily anthropomorphized — complete with wood-carved selfies and mother-chick yoga classes — the mutually marauding antics that ensue pit the pigs as vulgarly humanoid, egg-guzzling antagonists to their unspoiled idyll. There’s an environmentalist allegory to be drawn from their showdown, not that the filmmakers are overly concerned with such subtext given such a merry array of one-and-done jokes and equally disposable plot asides to charge through.
“The Angry Birds Movie” knows it’s about the candy-colored details rather than any bigger picture: Viewers may well have forgotten what even happened before the closing-credits diversions — suitably soundtracked to Demi Lovato sugar-rush cover of “I Will Survive” — are through, but the most outlandish gags will stick longest. The best of them all, involving a doting mama bird reg