It's been a mixed year of Animation, The Biggest grossing film of 2013 is Despicable Me 2, and other superb features such as Wreck It Ralph and The Croods. There have also been some Turkeys including Epic and Planes. Free Birds, despite its subject matter avoids the latter and falls somewhere in between, into the average category.
The first problem with this movie is that it doesn't really work outside of America, as we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Secondly is the very obvious time paradox, if they succeed in getting Turkey taken off the menu, then we wouldn't bother farming Turkeys and they wouldn't exist.
The Animation itself is decent, I saw the 2D version, so can't comment on the 3D, but it didn't feel like I missed out on much.
The real issue here is the storyline, I saw the end coming very early on, they slapped me around the face with it enough times that it was no great surprise. Also the fact that the film makers saw a need to introduce the film with a joke based on the fact that the historical elements are not real kind of sums up a lot of what is wrong with this film. A lot of the jokes fall fairly flat although there are a few laughs along the way.
Obviously I am not the target audience, but if you want to entertain your Kids with a cinema trip before Christmas, wait a week and take them to see Frozen 5/10
The first problem with this movie is that it doesn't really work outside of America, as we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Secondly is the very obvious time paradox, if they succeed in getting Turkey taken off the menu, then we wouldn't bother farming Turkeys and they wouldn't exist.
The Animation itself is decent, I saw the 2D version, so can't comment on the 3D, but it didn't feel like I missed out on much.
The real issue here is the storyline, I saw the end coming very early on, they slapped me around the face with it enough times that it was no great surprise. Also the fact that the film makers saw a need to introduce the film with a joke based on the fact that the historical elements are not real kind of sums up a lot of what is wrong with this film. A lot of the jokes fall fairly flat although there are a few laughs along the way.
Obviously I am not the target audience, but if you want to entertain your Kids with a cinema trip before Christmas, wait a week and take them to see Frozen 5/10
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