One of the best films i have seen

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

This adaptation of the Angry Birds game does a little bit more than just be an advertisement for the games. It's an entertaining, well-animated flick that even has a Shining reference.

Do computer games make good films? What happens when an island full of happy-go-lucky birds fall foul/fowl of duplicitous green pigs?On a small island with a huge eagle-shaped mountain in its centre lives a group of birds, going about their anthropomorphic business. Red spends most of his time being rather cross, but most of the other birds are fairly equable. Into their lives comes a boatful of green pigs, all hail-fellow-well-met on the surface, but actually bent on a nefarious, nay, despicable plan.Angry Birds is, I am told, a popular computer game for mobile phones and the like. I confess I have never played it, so I approached this CGI feature without any prejudgement other than the trailer, which I found quite amusing. So what can I tell you?It has a decent plot - simple, of course (as kids are a big part of the intended audience), but with some genuine suspense and jeopardy in it. Lives are at stake here! And there is some genuine emotion, too: it wouldn't be unreasonable for your eyes to start watering a bit here and there. It is very bright and colourful with pleasing animation, in terms of both design and execution, albeit possibly a little over-kinetic in places. I initially thought the character design was rather basic, but it actually fits each character well and, of course, reflects the game. Voices also match the characters well, and the voice actors, being seasoned pros one and all, invest their characters with genuine personality (it's amazing how much difference a good voice cast can make in an animated film). Crucially, Red is a very likeable character despite being angry, which is a point of some importance given that he is the protagonist.The last two CGI films I've seen have both disappointed me, so it is pleasing to report that this one didn't. And I should also report that it is very funny. It is crammed chock full of gags: sight gags, character gags, verbal gags, action gags, and they nearly all work. There is occasional toilet humour - you're probably not to worried about that given where you are reading this, but there are those who may object to their children being exposed to (for instance) the first Eagle gag which had tears streaming down my face. But then, I am very infantile in my appreciation of humour. If you're taking your kids, they'll find it a funny film, and you will enjoy sitting there picking up the references which skate over their heads (there's one from Kubrick's The Shining, for instance).The 3D has its moments, but is fairly non-essential.This is a strong 9 out of 10, maybe even a full 10 if the wind is in the right direction. And I'm not eggs-agerating.

I know a lot of people gave this movie many stars. Sorry if I don't follow that trend, and here's why: When you have 2 kids (8 and 6 year old) you watch a lot of animated movies and believe me: after you've seen one you pretty much have seen them all.So, here's my generic review: (Write movie name here) MOVIE REVIEW In this "new" movie, (Type studio name) Studios, shows a group of (Vehicles, Animals, Food, Human-like characters) who need to overcome (tragedy, invasion, misfortune).The (brave, valiant, courageous, resolute) main character and his (usually rather dumb) sidekick(s) have to figure out a way to solve their problematic situation and as the plot develops, a significant other will be found. (Which usually happens to a character who had already given up on love).Here comes the spoiler: (Not just for this movie, but for ALL animated movies):At the end, against all odds, the (exhausted, beat, tired) main character is triumphant. (Not that you didn't know from the get-go) The End

I am very sad to say that, but the movie disappointed me musically, graphically and from the story viewpoint. Definitely it didn't meet my expectations, and I think that it was made just for the seek of money. The start was very fading, I was very bored and the voice actor of Red disturbed me. I think that he did not suit to the character at all. Visual shape of birds was very poor. I don't say that I expected the exact copies of original angry birds, but especially the Red and Chuck were very oval to me, too much oval. Despite I loved the choice of Chuck voice actor. After the poor beginning, the movie started to grow up dynamically, yet it lacked humour, or it contained very vast humour. I appreciate the concept of "anger" removal, but wasn't being angry the very base of birds? Didn't all birds should supposed to be angry? Not just chuck, red and black bomb one? Honestly, the eagle thing was living the movie a bit, but some inappropriate parts of movie were ruining the so-so way of a movie. Movie didn't have consistent dynamics, it didn't have a positive gradation to me, the start was very vast, strange, lacking humour, then when it started to make sense, yet there were very strange parts, like the creators had some idea, then it got lost, then it came up again, then it got lost and so on. The end, egg salvation, heroism of red somehow made the reputation of the movie better, but it could be done much wiser than it was. Generally speaking, there were parts I enjoyed very much mixed with very stupid or boring parts, which could be substituted with something more witty or logic, or omitted. It could be better. 5/10