The Angry Birds Movie is the first film where Vitti is credited as the sole writer, so we’ll certainly get a chance to see what he’s made of as a screenwriter.

Hatchlings in “The Angry Birds Movie” are having some Easter fun. (Columbia Pictures) Agreeability gets you so far in life, but when the chips are down, it helps to lose your temper sometimes.

For The Angry Birds Movie, that’s not the case. The Sony Pictures film is largely entertaining for audiences young and old who have played the once global phenomena of a game or have not.

The Angry Birds Movie has a reported production budget of $86million (€75million), which was pumped into hiring celebrity voices, and doing the animation – actually making the movie.

The Angry Birds Movie 2 currently sits with a 79% positive score on Rotten Tomatoes which is the best rating of any movie based on a game listed on the site. In fact, the competition isn't even close.

2. The birds in the movie do not play the 'Angry Birds' game The birds' island is "naturalistic," said Cohen. There are no cell phones, which means no mobile apps and games.

They are able to slide jokes into "The Angry Birds Movie 2" that — even though they don’t often work — would never be considered in most animated movies. It may be on principle alone, but I ...

At worst, “The Angry Birds Movie” looks like a shameless, capitalist money grab. At best, it’s an uninspired film worth a few chuckles, but not the price of an admission ticket.

Despite such sunny financial forecasts, The Angry Birds Movie has already experienced its share of consternation from the movie-going public as yet another example of brand-driven dreck being ...