The Angry Birds Movie 2

Well, this movie definitely did not live up to the hype I had seen the reviews paint for it. Now, that's not to say that this movie was bad, in fact, far from it, but to say this one was better than the first one? I just...I can't see why.

The plot basically involves the pigs and the birds teaming up against Zeta, an eagle who lives on a third island, called Eagle Island, and want to turn Bird Island and Piggy Island into her own private resorts. I didn't mind the plot overall, but my biggest gripe with the movie was they had a secondary subplot about three baby birds who lose three eggs and go on an adventure to save them. It was clearly there to appeal to the kids instead of moving the story forward and I was always annoyed when I had to see the baby birds yet again.

The acting was fine, although I didn't pay much attention to it this time, since I feel like the movie didn't care about it as much.

This movie was trying to be better than the first one, but, along the way, I feel it forgot what made the first one great. I did like the team up between the birds and pigs and we did get some good interactions, but I feel the rivalry being pushed further or in a different direction than it went, would have been a better option than what we got. It's fine overall, but it just wasn't as fun or fresh as the first one.

Next time, we look at an adaptation of a video game character that took way too long to make happen, but it was a massive success. Keep an eye out for Sonic the Hedgehog.

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