Driving by his deep fear of the doom of the thanksgiving that turkeys are in the menu, Reggie, a courageous turkey, has to unite with his enemy, in order to save the lives of other turkeys, by travelling back in time to delete the turkeys from the menu, as they gain fame through their courageous and noble job.
The movie's animal rights, vegetarian message should go down easily with politically correct parents - at least until they choke on the offensive depiction of 17th-century turkeys as face-painted, headband-wearing native Americans.
A lot of agreeable kookiness compensates for the ramshackle script in this tale of turkeys traveling back in time to prevent becoming an essential part of Thanksgiving dinner.
These birds are good to look at, and you can easily get caught up in the characters. But the situation is a bit too much to swallow . . . even for Thanksgiving.
Any given scene from Free Birds seems more like a YouTube parody of stupid children's films than a piece of something that real human beings put together with honest artistic intent.
A stale turkey hash that heaves a lot of ingredients in the oven but never turns on the gas, a frantic attempt to come up with an animated film built around Thanksgiving Day traditions.
Movie Talk
January 19, 2014
The muddled story and lacklustre animation makes this a film that's strictly for the birds.
