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Angry birds 2 cast3/20/2024 The sequel also brought in a number of A-listers to the cast, most notably Saturday Night Live star Leslie Jones as the villainous purple bird Zeta, who, Gad says, was “such inspired casting and brings such an unwieldy new energy to the film that disrupts everything in such a great way.” Jones may not have been the logical choice to play an evil character, but director Van Orman said she unknowingly cast herself in the role. “The movie has some amazing messaging in it, not the least of which is overcoming differences with people you disagree with in order to find a common ground, which I think speaks to a lot of issues we’re dealing with right now,” he said. The Angry Birds Movie 2 sees the constantly at-odds angry birds and the green pigs teaming up to take on a common enemy that has put all of their homes in danger, which Gad says seems especially timely in this political climate. The idea of frenemies uniting, when it was first pitched to me, was just so ingenious, and Thurop - our new director - he just does a master class in unbelievable, insane animation that is like golden-age Looney Tunes-style stuff.” Josh Gad, who stars as one of the main birds, Chuck, told The Hollywood Reporter at the Los Angeles premiere Saturday that “there’s no reason to do a sequel unless you’re going to try to top the original, and with this, it was immediately clear to me that there was a whole different approach. But in a world where “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Toy Story” and “The Iron Giant” are easily available, what “Birds 2” offers isn’t nearly good enough.The Angry Birds Movie, the Sony animated flick based on the popular video game, is back for a second go-around, this time with a deeper story and starrier voice cast. I know this movie is aimed at kids, and kiddie flicks usually don’t demand as much from the brain and serve mostly as entertainment. But if you boil it all down, you get is a lazy, unimaginative sequel that’s not worth the price of admission. There’s so much more that’s wrong with “Angry Birds 2,” from stunningly bad soundtrack choices to one lame attempt to get this movie to make scientific sense. It would get that credit if these themes felt like an organic part of the story, instead of feeling like they were crammed in by the filmmakers at the last minute so the movie “means something.” The way the themes are delivered is yet another chink in this movie’s armor. Maybe “Birds 2” deserves a little credit for delivering themes about teamwork and the damage loneliness can do. Messages that feel ham-handedly crammed in.But it’s still sloppy and eye-rollingly ineffective It’s incredibly forced and feels like it was the best thing the writers could come up with. The plotline involving the three hatchlings feels like it was constructed for the sole purpose of getting said hatchlings into position to serve as a plot point in the movie’s grand finale. The jokes mostly consist of tired cliches and lame slapstick. Aside from the aforementioned Blockbuster Video sight gag, nothing in the movie managed to get me to laugh. However, nothing misses the mark as badly as the humor. It seems the writers of “Birds 2” were Stormtroopers because nearly everything they try misses. It’s basically “Seven Samurai” by way of “Black Hawk Down.” It’s dull, unimaginative and as predictable as the sunrise. The meat of the plot involves Red assembling a team to deal with Zeta to infiltrate Zeta’s stronghold. A dull plot stolen from far better films.The worsts missteps this film takes include: Other than that, “Birds 2” is a litany of cinematic miscues. The film even manages to be funny once, with a simple-yet-clever visual riff on Blockbuster Video. The voice cast does a good job performing and delivering the dialogue. The characters are cute, and the settings are lush and beautiful. There’s precious little that “Birds 2” does well. Along the way, a trio of hatchlings goes on an adventure to save some unhatched eggs. “Birds 2” takes us back to Bird Island, where Red ( Jason Sudeikis) finds he must team with the Birds’ sworn enemies, the Pigs, to stop Zeta ( Leslie Jones), an eagle with a massive chip on her shoulder, from driving the Pigs and Birds from their homes. But it’s rare to see a movie that does almost everything wrong, and in that sense, “The Angry Birds Movie 2” is a true unicorn of cinematic badness. Other times, a film succumbs to damage inflicted by multiple flaws. Sometimes a defect is severe enough to sink a movie on its own. Sometimes the flaws are minor enough that the film can overcome them. Every movie we see is flawed in one way or another.
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