So The Angry Birds Movie 2 makes the smart choice – narratively and thematically – of forcing the birds and the pigs to team up. It was a simple set-up that provided a frame for jokes, but which could feel a little uncomfortable in this era of xenophobia and anxiety about foreigners. Adapting the beloved mobile game, The Angry Birds Movie focused on conflict between the birds and the pigs. From far enough away, the basic ingredients of the movie make a certain amount of sense.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 works best at either an extreme distance or in extreme close-up. Unfortunately, all of this gets muddle the eggs that were such an important plot point in The Angry Birds Movie get scrambled, as the film jumps from extremes broad pop culture parodies, nineties nostalgia, absurd cartoonish violence, pseudo-feminism, a jilted lover plot, commentary on modern dating. In fact, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is at its strongest when it feels more like a collection of Looney Tunes sketches than an actually narrative. There are moments in The Angry Birds Movie 2 were that retrograde influence clearly shines through. The Angry Birds Movie arguably made a better deal of this than one could expect, with an approach that harked back to the cartoonish sociopathy that defined so much of twentieth-century American animation, a particularly crass and crude spin on the Tex Avery template. In contrast, both The Angry Birds Movie and The Angry Birds Movie 2 feel displaced in time, or perhaps even a glimpse sideways into a world where Wall-E and Up never happened, so Shrek and its sequels still provide a template for storytelling in computer-generated animation.
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