Free Birds begins with a panicked turkey named Reggie (Owen Wilson) trying to get the rest of the flock to run away from the farmers who are choosing a turkey to eat on Thanksgiving. Reggie was not chosen to be Thanksgiving dinner. There is another turkey named Jake (Woody Harrelson). Jake knows where a time machine is so that he can go back in time to the first Thanksgiving. Jake is determined to get turkeys off the Thanksgiving menu for good. He forces Reggie to go on a time travel mission with him to try to save all turkeys.
The creators of Free Birds were trying too hard to make the story funny. They made the characters act over the top and weird. The 3D effects were not good. Without the glasses the movie was fuzzy looking, but with the glasses on it just looked like a regular movie. There were several parts that would have benefited from 3D but the creators didn’t pull it off.
Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson) is an over dramatic bird which makes the character act stupid. Reggie overdoes the romantic parts and overall shows too much emotion. This character was not funny. Jake (voiced by Woody Harrelson) is very competitive which makes him flex his butt. He likes to flex his butt too much (any amount of butt flexing is too much). Jake is not funny. The way both of these characters acted made me not like them.
I did find the baby turkeys that appear twice in the movie to be very cute. They were the closest to a favorite character for me. I don’t recommend spending your money on Free Birds.
Miranda Clarke
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