The gameplay features three new birds named Silver, Melody, and Jo, as well as a playable pig, named Leonard, a new ability for Red, spells instead of power-ups and gameplay that occurs in multi-stage levels. It is a free-to-play with optional purchases for in-game currency. 2.5 stars.IOS, iPadOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, HarmonyOSĪngry Birds 2 is a 2015 puzzle video game developed by Rovio Entertainment and is the twelfth game in the Angry Birds series, and is the direct sequel to the original Angry Birds. Should you go? It’s better than you think. Contains rude humor, cartoon violence and mild mature themes. Starring: Jason Sudeikis, Leslie Jones, Bill Hader That’s not a bad moral, delivered not by slingshot, but means that are just clever enough to keep you playing along. In this new and improved sequel, the message is more encouraging: If we could only put aside our differences, we might save the world. The first “Angry Birds” movie was, arguably, a story of mistrust. “The Angry Birds Movie 2” never soars to the loopy, delirious heights of those shows, but it has a little of their anarchic energy. Thurop Van Orman, a cartoonist, writer and voice actor known for the beloved - and frequently psychedelic - Cartoon Network shows “Adventure Time” and “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack,” makes his feature directorial debut here. If the sardonic tone of Sudeikis’s Red is merely generic, Jones’ larger-than-life vocal performance makes Zeta outrageous beyond her florid plumage. ‘Reinventing Elvis: The ’68 Comeback’ review: An aging pop star comes roaring back, if only for a momentĪdults, however, may also be amused, to a point, thanks to some vivid voice work. Laws that are briefly suspended when a trio of hatchlings ascend into space (cue Bowie). The original gameplay, after all, required figuring out the optimal angle of attack - by slingshot, of course - depending on a complex calculus marrying geometry with the laws of physics. Give credit where credit is due: few movies are so math-centric as this one. Yet from its distinctive character design to its ambitious world-building, what might otherwise have been only a mildly diverting product tie-in is proof that video-game movies - just like video games - require a certain level of invention and novelty to keep players (and audiences) interested. In some ways, “The Angry Birds Movie 2” is standard kiddie fare, following a well-worn action-movie formula, and relying on uninspired needle-drops that include soundtrack staples David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and the now-ubiquitous 1980s instrumental “Axel F,” from “Beverly Hills Cop.” That’s where Silver comes in, looking at Zeta’s forbidding island fortress and superweapon and considering her strategic options as a physics problem to be solved. She’s coming for Bird Island next.įueled by a combination of anger and self-doubt, Red may have the drive to carry out an assault on Eagle Island, but he doesn’t have the smarts. Pig Island, you see, is under attack from nearby Eagle Island, where Zeta (Leslie Jones), a purple bird of prey, has been antagonizing the pigs with a barrage of weaponized ice balls. This time, the pigs’ leader, Leonard (Bill Hader), wants a truce. Pigs who were plotting to steal the birds’ eggs, carry them back to Pig Island, and eat their young. Our hero is hot-tempered Red (voice of Jason Sudeikis) - no longer an outcast, having saved his home from an invasion of green pigs in the first film. Once again, the story takes us to Bird Island, the setting of the original 2016 film and an avian paradise inhabited by flightless birds who, as in the game, travel via a slingshot that hurls them to their destination. But the animated sequel - inspired by the popular Angry Birds games, available on mobile devices and other platforms - goes above and beyond what is to be expected from such things. So “The Angry Birds Movie 2” is not great cinema. And it encourages girls to study science.ĭid I mention that it’s based on a smartphone gaming app? It boasts a plot and action based on the foundational principles of mathematics. There’s a new movie that teaches valuable lessons about teamwork and forgiveness.
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