The Angry Birds Movie
Director: Clay Kaytis, Fergal Reilly
Talent: Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph
Release Date: 20th May
The moral compass of The Angry Birds Movie is open to interpretation. Are our winged comrades standing up to their snouted colonialist oppressors, who arrive on Bird Island uninvited to exploit their resources and eat their young? Or is it a tale of desperate, starving pigs unsettling the bourgeois utopia of these docile and easily threatened birds? Is it right that we should encourage our birds, and indeed our children, to be angry? Or is this film just subtly suggesting that we should be wary of foreign settlers?
Perhaps what is most unclear about this film is whether or not it is suitable for children at all. While the animation and score are typical of a children’s film, there are references to child molestation, casual sex, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and a scene involving urination that lasts upwards of a minute. It could be said that the confusing nature of The Angry Birds Movie is intentional, and the overall aim to leave the viewer, ultimately, as the Angriest Bird of all.
Words: Ciara Thompson
