The Angry Birds Movie - Another Garbage Video Game Adaptation

[Pinky's Brain]

-I don't think anyone is seriously suggesting that Muslims pouring into Europe is part of an intentional conspiracy. In contrast, the pigs integrating themselves into the birds' society is entirely pre-meditated, a ruse that comes from the top. The pigs aren't refuges, and never even present themselves as refuges (they pose as explorers).

They are slightly constrained, they have two sides to work with and the good guys have to bomb the bad guys castles.

The pigs are also creating a building with the sign "Hamnest_ International" ... yet clearly Muslims don't control Amnesty international.

-I actually see the birds as being more analogous to the United States, but that's down to interpretation.

I think the pissing Eagle has that one on lock down.

 

[Velocir_X]

None of this should be a surprise. What should be a surprise is how easily the movie could have been good. You've got a technologically advanced race coming to an island nation that's eventually led (and therefore represented) by a red guy? Gee, I wonder why that sounds familiar. The filmmakers have no interest in exploring this parallel, however. Instead, we just have evil pigs and good birds and eggs and a slingshot. Because why try to elevate your source material when you can just put in the bare minimum and get away with it?

note: emphasis mine

also note: Green is considered the color of islam; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_in_Islam

Of course none of this imagery could have been deliberate or anything. After all the filmmakers have no interest in exploring relevant political parallels, because why try to elevate your source material when you can instead just put in the bare minimum and get away with it?

 

[lacktheknack]

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Yeah, no. That's not how political parallels in movies work. The amount of digging needed to come up with this stuff is hilarious and unreasonable. If you dug that hard into older movies, you'd come up with similar things.

The Greece picture doesn't even look remotely similar.

Arranging three pre-existing characters into a group that vaguely vaguely vaguely vaguely vaguely resembles a three-color flag is somehow biting social commentary? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it.

 

[Pinky's Brain]

It's a movie about invasion, naivety, exploitation by foreigners and war. The real world Amnesty international and Coexist movement are tied to the enemy by easter eggs.

These are the simple facts.

 

[Josh123914]

As somebody who actually enjoyed the movie on the grounds that I liked for the first time in years seeing a cartoon that wasn't trying to pull at my heartstrings at some point, all I can say to the haters is that it made a shit-tonne of money, is going to be licensed by your local equivalent to UTV or BBC to play every Easter week for the next 10 years....[small]and is the Animal Farm of our generation....[/small]

Overall 8/10 needed more Matilda.

EDIT: Also made my own thread like last week because I didn't see this lol: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.939222-Anybody-watch-the-Angry-Birds-movie