At this point, it’s pretty much a given that movies based on video games suck. Ah, but what about movies based on mobile app video games? Well, that’s a brave new world and The Angry Birds Movie is hoping to be on the right side of history, even though I sincerely doubt it. After all, how does one make a compelling story out of a game where birds are flung across the screen in order to destroy pigs? I have no clue. But that’s never stopped any studio before from trying to make a questionable concept into a movie, and The Angry Birds Movie is most certainly that.
The Angry Birds Movie features lead voices from Jason Sudeikis, Danny McBride, and my arch-nemesis Josh Gad. Joining them in various vocal roles are Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Peter Dinklage, Keegan-Michael Key, Kate McKinnon, Tony Hale, and Hannibal Buress. Gad aside, there are some legitimate talents on the roster for The Angry Birds Movie, and the film is written by Simpsons veteran Jon Vitti. I’m hoping — praying — that I’m wrong about The Angry Birds Movie, but I won’t know for sure until it opens on May 20th, 2016.
The official synopsis for The Angry Birds Movie:
The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, This is the End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.
