Brown’s nerdy, disheveled pig Garry and his terrible gadget inventions - all of which he tries out on “guinea” pigs, of course. There are laughs, too, in Peter Dinklage’s voice work as Mighty Eagle and Sterling K. The sequences in which they disguise themselves inside a giant mechanical bird costume (like “Sesame Street”‘s Big Bird) and teeter into the Eagle Island control room are actually pretty funny, including a break-dance off and some slapstick comic business in the men’s bathroom. Aug8:15am The Angry Birds Movie 2, the sequel to the hit 2016 film, reunites returning stars like Peter Dinklage and Jason Sudeikis while welcoming some new famous voices to Bird. The tone and the plot take some time to settle, but once director Thurop van Orman (a TV animation vet making his feature debut) hits his fully frenetic stride (and adults decide to surrender their senses and go along for the ride), the bird and pig unit become almost affable in their daftness. There are hardly any gags in the dialogue of Peter Ackerman’s script, not even terrible bird-based puns (though I did like the shot of one bird reading a best-seller called “Crazy Rich Avians”). Taking the structure of a heist movie and a WWII mission movie (“Where Eagles Dare”?), it hops along swiftly enough, with time for a cute running subplot involving little hatchlings trying to recapture some eggs they’ve lost, rather like Scratch in the “Ice Age” movies forever chasing his acorn. “Angry Birds 2” has the titular heroes - Red (Jason Sudeikis), Chuck (Josh Gad) and Bomb (Danny McBride) are now joined by a clever scientist named Silver (Rachel Bloom) - of Bird Island teaming up with their former porky prankster enemies on Pig Island who, led by Leonard (Bill Hader), call a truce when both lands come under threat from a vengeful eagle named Zeta (voiced uncomfortably over the top by Leslie Jones), who lobs ice balls filled with lava at them from her icy volcano lair on Eagle Island.
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