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 animation is good but the plotting is too slow and unclear. My advice? Wait for next week’s release of Disney’s delightful Frozen.
Any comparisons with Chicken Run are rendered poultry by half-baked gags. Even tykes will tell it to get stuffed.
Not bootiful.
Witless animation
Free Birds lacks the humour, pathos or narrative skill of a proper children’s film.
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.
Here is a very odd but watchable animation.
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.
General release. Check local listings for show times.