Free Birds : Movie Review


On paper, "Free Birds" has an oddball premise. Living on a cutthroat farm where survival among his gang of fellow turkeys is less than certain, Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson) has never felt like he truly fit in. When the President of the United States (Jimmy Hayward) arrives to pardon a single fowl for Thanksgiving, his demanding little daughter (Kaitlyn Maher) picks Reggie, promptly sweeping him onto Air Force One and back to their retreat at Camp David. Reggie thinks he's got it made, at least for the time being, but there is no guarantee he'll always be safe, or that the girl won't lose interest (she already has the attention span of a gnat and the sleeping patterns of a narcoleptic). When Jake (Woody Harrelson), he of the Turkey Freedom Front, approaches Reggie, he reveals that the only way to stop the slaughter of turkeys during the November holiday is to change the course of history. Equipped with a time machine called S.T.E.V.E. (George Takei), the two of them travel back to 1621, three days prior to the very first Thanksgiving in the Plymouth Colony. Their daunting mission: to rally with the unsuspecting 17th-century turkeys and steal the weapons that Captain Myles Standish (Colm Meaney) and the rest of his settlers are planning to use to catch their dinner.

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Author : Dustin Putman