![]() “All Rovio games have been F2P, it’s not a new thing, but this game looks different from the other ones.” “The market has changed quite a bit since the first Angry Birds game,” notes Burman. So there’s now a multiplayer arena where you can challenge your Facebook friends to high score battles, in-game currencies that can be used to purchase power-ups, rewarded video ads, and –perhaps controversially – a Candy Crush-esque energy mechanic. The result is a game that keeps the original Angry Birds flavour, but borrows seasoning from the game mechanics that modern players have come to expect from their free-to-play games.Įxclusive concept art for Angry Birds 2 courtesy of Rovio “We wanted to investigate what Angry Birds would look like if it was created in 2015 as opposed to 2009.” “When we started this game, we went back to the roots of Angry Birds,” Burman says. So what better time to catch up with the general manager of Rovio Stockholm, Oskar Burman, who heads up the studio behind this new chapter in Angry Birds’ history. Now, however, it’s decided that the time is right to pull the cloak off a brand new, separate instalment in the franchise: Angry Birds 2. In the six years since launch, Rovio has released over 13 spin offs from that original idea of flinging furious feathers at pesky pigs. But even with all these cast additions and changes, The Angry Birds Movie 2 still feels too derivative and like you’ve seen these tropes and beats before.Begin a sentence with the words “mobile gaming titan” and tradition dictates that the words “Angry” and “Birds” will follow shortly after.Īs one of the first games to grace the infant App Store in 2009, it flourished into a worldwide success as over 2.5 billion people flocked to download the original title. All of them, as characters and voice actors, bring something different and add value to the narrative and some meat to the bones of the movie. There are several new characters added to the mix, and a few of them do make their presence felt most notably Silver (voiced by Rachel Bloom), Courtney (voiced by Awkwafina), and Garry (voiced by Sterling K. As with The Angry Birds Movie, there is plenty of silliness and sight gags that will raise a chuckle, but this one has more of a Looney Tunes feel to it. This time Red, Chuck, and Bomb (once again voiced by Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, and Danny McBride, respectively) have to team up with Leonard (voiced by Bill Hader) and the rest of the pigs when they find out someone with an advanced weapon is threatening to destroy both their island homes. The plot of The Angry Birds Movie 2 is a bit deeper than that of the first movie - although deeper is relative. A few of the older kids had their phones out and generally seemed more interested in what was going on outside the theater than what was unfolding inside. The former sang along to songs on the soundtrack and repeated funny dialogue they’d just heard while the latter didn’t. However, the kids at the older end of the spectrum, the ones who probably were more in the previous demographic when the first film came out, seemed entertained but less reactive and enamored by what they were seeing. The younger members of the audience lapped up the silliness and the mild peril. ![]() What was interesting to see was how the kids in the screening I was at reacted to the movie. But while there are few flourishes here for adults, this is very much a kids movie. Director Thurop Van Orman previously worked on Powerpuff Girls, Adventure Time, and Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, and he’s brought some of his flair from those projects and applied them here, taking what the first film laid out and giving it his own touch. Another bonus is that at 96 minutes long, one minute shorter than The Angry Birds Movie, it doesn’t overstay its welcome. Would you recommend someone go and see it without kids? Probably not. The good news is that if you’re an adult taking a child to this, it won’t be an unpleasant experience. While fans of the first film will likely be satisfied with the sequel and there’s nothing fundamentally bad about The Angry Birds Movie 2, it’s unlikely that anyone who wasn’t already planning to see it will change their minds and buy a ticket. In a summer where the box office has been hit and miss when it comes to giving audiences what they wanted or expected, The Angry Birds Movie 2 is pretty much exactly what you would expect it to be.
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