![]() Peace of any kind is in short supply in “ The Angry Birds Movie 2,” another breathless, frenetic cartoon escapade derived from the once-ubiquitous video game franchise, and again its manic, catapulting comic energy is more appealing than those origins might suggest. It turns out baby birds, too, burn up upon re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere (I won’t spoil how they got into that mess in the first place).“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson - though he reckoned without the Angry Birds making a virtue of that trade. Not only are these little chicks aggressively cute and fluffy, but the film repeatedly puts them in dangerous situations that they all survive with the invulnerability of Wile E Coyote. The highlight of the film is arguably its side plot, which deals with a trio of hatchlings whose leader, Zoe ( The Florida Project’s Brooklynn Prince) has managed to lose her unborn sisters, still in their egg stage. Yes, there’s plenty of buffoonery here, but many of the jokes are also dark and surprisingly surreal, in a way that feels niche enough that children won’t catch on. Scripted by Peter Ackerman (whose credits include both Ice Age and The Americans), Eyal Podell, and Jonathon E Stewart, the film manages to take a fairly simple story in unexpected directions. If it all sounds a little odd, well, The Angry Birds Movie 2 really is quite odd – but that’s also where it gets its spiky sense of humour.
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