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Free Birds (U)

Free Birds (U)

Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.


The critical consensus

The animation is good but the plotting is too slow and unclear. My advice? Wait for next week’s release of Disney’s delightful Frozen.

**(*)(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express, 27/11/2013

Any comparisons with Chicken Run are rendered poultry by half-baked gags. Even tykes will tell it to get stuffed.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Curtis Woloschuk, Total Film, 25/11/2013

Free Birds lacks the humour, pathos or narrative skill of a proper children’s film.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 29/11/2013

Some lively voice work from Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson and colourful set pieces can't conceal the fact that the plotting simply doesn't stack up.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 28/11/2013

Here is a very odd but watchable animation.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 28/11/2013

The fact that no one in the UK knows/cares about Thanksgiving is a problem, although a limp showing in the US suggests the home crowd don't care that much either.

**(*)(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 01/12/2013

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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