The Angry Birds Movie (2016) 🐦💥🐷

“From Addictive App to Aggressively Average Animation.”


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Lets start by showing y’all the trailers shall we?

🎮 Where It All Began

Before there was a movie, there was the Angry Birds app — a game that practically everyone had on their phone back in the early 2010s. I’ll admit it: I was addicted. I played every single one — Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio, Angry Birds Space, Angry Birds Star Wars, even the weird spin-offs. It was simple but satisfying: slingshot birds into pigs’ fortresses, cause chaos, and beat the level. Pure dopamine.

But Hollywood saw dollar signs in the mobile craze and thought, “Hey, why not stretch this into a feature film?” Well… they tried.


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📖 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

The movie takes the basic premise — birds vs. pigs — and builds a narrative around it. Red (voiced by Jason Sudeikis) is an angry outcast bird forced into anger management classes with Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride). When a group of green pigs, led by Leonard (Bill Hader), shows up pretending to be friendly, Red suspects foul play. Of course, he’s right — the pigs steal the birds’ eggs, forcing Red and his buddies to lead a rescue mission.

On paper, it could have been a fun, chaotic romp like the games. In execution… it’s 90 minutes of bird puns, dance numbers, and cringey jokes that feel ripped straight from a bad Saturday morning cartoon.


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✅ Minute Positives

The animation is bright and colorful — kids won’t complain.

The action sequence where the birds finally slingshot themselves into Piggy Island is the closest the movie gets to recapturing the spirit of the games.

Bill Hader as Leonard at least sounds like he’s having fun.


That’s… about it.


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❌ Flaws (a.k.a. Why This Doesn’t Work)

The humor leans way too hard on bathroom jokes, modern slang, and awkward bird “twerks.” Characters are one-note stereotypes stretched thin. The pacing drags, and the movie takes far too long to get to what everyone came to see: birds smashing pigs’ buildings. For a film about anger, it’s weirdly toothless.

❌ The Infamous “Shining” Joke

Okay, here’s an obvious con with this movie: that infamous Shining reference. If you’ve seen The Shining, you know “redrum” is Danny’s creepy warning — it’s never spoken by the twins in the hallway. But in The Angry Birds Movie, they mash those two completely separate scenes together: you get twin pigs in a hallway saying “redrum.”

Here’s why that makes zero sense. They’re not only misquoting the original film, they’re confusing two iconic moments into one nonsense gag. And the “joke” is just…recognition. No setup, no punchline, just “Hey, you’ve seen The Shining, right? Ha ha, laugh now.” Except it’s not funny, it’s not clever, and honestly it feels like the writers didn’t even care enough to get the reference right.

You’re just left wondering who was this joke for because it wasn’t sure for kids because they won’t understand a shining reference. Was it for adults doubt it? I don’t know what adult came into this movie. Thinking that there would be a shining reference in a angry birds movie.


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🎯 Final Thoughts

The Angry Birds Movie took a simple, addictive app and overinflated it into a noisy, cringey mess. Kids may have laughed at the slapstick, but anyone who spent hours actually playing the games probably walked away thinking, “Wow… I waited for this?”


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⭐ Rating

3/10 🐦💣


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⚠️ Spoiler Warning


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🌀 Spoilers (Full Breakdown)

The movie begins with Red already living as an outcast because of his temper. After a birthday clown disaster where he lashes out, he’s sentenced to anger management classes. There, he meets the fast-talking Chuck and the explosive (literally) Bomb. These sessions are led by Matilda (Maya Rudolph), who’s a little too cheery for everyone’s good.

One day, a ship arrives carrying the pigs. Leonard and his crew act suspiciously polite, handing out gifts and pretending to be friends. Red is the only bird skeptical, but nobody believes him because of his reputation for anger.

Sure enough, Red’s suspicions are right: the pigs party with the birds, then reveal their plan — stealing the birds’ eggs while everyone’s distracted. When the eggs are taken, the birds panic and finally realize Red was right all along. Suddenly, the outcast becomes the leader.

From there, the movie finally starts resembling the game: the birds build a giant slingshot, fling themselves across to Piggy Island, and begin demolishing the pig city. Chuck speeds through obstacles, Bomb blows stuff up, and Red storms the castle. The action is colorful and chaotic, but it feels like it should’ve been the whole movie instead of just the last 20 minutes.

Eventually, Red confronts Leonard and retrieves the eggs. He almost gets blown up in the process but is saved, returning home as the birds’ hero. The town rebuilds, Red finally has a community, and the pigs are left licking their wounds.

The movie ends with a cheesy dance party because, of course it does.