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| Directed by | Thurop Van Orman |
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| Based on | Angry Birds byRovio Entertainment |
| Produced by | John Cohen |
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| Cinematography | Simon Dunsdon |
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| Music by | Heitor Pereira |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $65 million |
| Box office | $152.8 million[2][4] |
The Angry Birds Movie 2 is a 2019 animatedcomedy film based on theAngry Birds video game series. The film was directed byThurop Van Orman, and written byPeter Ackerman,Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart. It is aninternational co-production between Finland and the United States.Jason Sudeikis,Josh Gad,Bill Hader,Danny McBride, andPeter Dinklage reprise their voice roles fromthe first film, with newcomersLeslie Jones,Rachel Bloom,Awkwafina,Sterling K. Brown, andEugenio Derbez joining theensemble voice cast. In the film, the birds are forced to team up with the pigs to stop Eagle Island's leader from destroying both of their islands.
Heitor Pereira returned to compose the film's score, with artists such asKesha andLuke Combs contributing tracks for the film. It also features classical pop songs from the 1960s to 2000s, as in the first film.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 was theatrically released in Finland on August 7, 2019, bySF Studios, and in the United States on August 14, bySony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $152.8 million on a $65 million budget. A further sequel,The Angry Birds Movie 3, is due to be released on December 23, 2026.
On Bird Island, Red has become a hero after saving the island,[a] leading the birds in a prank war against the pigs of Piggy Island, led by Leonard. One day, a giant ice ball from the distant Eagle Island crashes near Piggy Island, prompting Leonard to call for atruce and propose analliance with the birds. The new threat comes from Zeta, the leader of Eagle Island, who is tired of living on the island and plans to take over both islands by launching lava-filled balls of ice from hersuperweapon. Meanwhile, Red struggles with insecurity, fearing he will no longer be admired if peace is achieved. His friends Chuck and Bomb invite him to aspeed dating event, where Red meets Chuck's sister, Silver, an engineering student who deems him incompatible. At the same time, threehatchlings—Zoe, Vincent, and Samantha—accidentally lose Zoe's unhatched sisters and embark on a quest to retrieve them.
Leonard visits Red and convinces him to form a team and infiltrate Eagle Island. They recruit Chuck, Bomb, Silver, Leonard's assistant Courtney, and Mighty Eagle. The group plans their mission in Mighty Eagle's cave but is interrupted when Zeta's weapon destroys part of Eagle Mountain, frightening the other birds. To reach Eagle Island, the team uses asubmarine built by pig inventor Garry. Red insists that evacuation is unnecessary, hoping to preserve his heroic image.
Upon arrival, Mighty Eagle reveals that Zeta was once his fiancée, but he abandoned her out ofcowardice. Upon arriving, Red decides to infiltrate the weapon alone, though Silver follows him. The pair sneak into thecannon's entrance but are quickly captured. Zeta reveals her plan to bombard the islands with lava-filled ice balls to force evacuation. Regretting his decisions, Red admits to Silver that his actions were driven by his fear of losing popularity. Silver comforts him, and together they escape.
Elsewhere, the rest of the team disguises themselves as an eagle to infiltrate the base and obtain akeycard. They reunite with Red and Silver, who devise a plan to destroy the cannon as it begins to charge. Red and Silver encase themselves in an ice ball and attempt to destroy the weapon from within, but their plan fails. As Zeta prepares to fire the cannon, Mighty Eagle confronts her and apologizes for abandoning her. Zeta dismisses him, revealing that her assistant, Debbie, is actually their daughter. While Zeta is distracted, Chuck ties the weapon using Silver's latest invention, a type of string with enhanced durability, which slows the launched lava balls. When the string begins to break, the hatchlings, who have recovered their eggs, arrive and help hold the line. The lava balls are pulled back into the cannon, causing it toexplode and destroy the base. Everyone escapes, and Mighty Eagle saves Debbie from falling debris, redeeming himself in Zeta's eyes.
Afterwards, Mighty Eagle and Zeta marry on Bird Island as the truce continues. Red credits the team—especially Silver—for saving the islands, earning more admiration from islanders. Red and Silver begin a relationship to Chuck's mild annoyance. Meanwhile, the hatchlings discover they mistakenly rescued aboa constrictor's eggs instead of Zoe's sisters. The hatchlings and the snake exchange their babies before Zoe's sisters drift away out to sea.
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A sequel toThe Angry Birds Movie was announced in August 2016.[5] It was directed by creatorThurop Van Orman, who previously createdThe Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack for Cartoon Network, co-directed by John Rice, and written byPeter Ackerman. John Cohen returned fromThe Angry Birds Movie to serve as producer, with animation again handled bySony Pictures Imageworks.[6] Imageworks' sister studioSony Pictures Animation also released the film under their banner, despite having dropped out of co-producing the project beforehand and had not co-produced the first film either.[7]
In the summer of 2017, production designerPete Oswald stated that the sequel would be more of an adventure movie that introduces new characters and locations into the world first established inThe Angry Birds Movie. While he was not in a position to offer further details about the plot and characters, which remained unknown until the months before the film's release, he expressed hope that it would be a better film than the first installment.[8]
The creative decision to break from the games' source material and have the birds and pigs end their conflict and form an alliance to face a greater threat was one that was made out of a desire to surprise audiences with a new experience with the same characters, as well as attempt to outdo what was accomplished in the first film with an unprecedented level of creative freedom available.[9]Josh Gad stated that the production team went forward with such idea because it was not only an "ingenious" one, but also because they felt it would feel most appropriate in light of the increasingly polarized political climate at the time, as people who disagree on significant issues struggle to find common ground.[10]
Overall, the budget was approximately $65 million.[2]
In April 2018, the majority of the voice cast was announced.Jason Sudeikis, Gad,Danny McBride,Maya Rudolph,Bill Hader, andPeter Dinklage will reprise their roles from the first film.Leslie Jones will voice a new female villain,[11][12] revealed to be Zeta in the teaser trailer.[13] In December 2018,Nicki Minaj joined the cast of the film.[14] Upon its release, the teaser trailer briefly revealed that Hal, a green boomerang bird from the games and the first film, would return in the sequel,[15] withAnthony Padilla returning to voice Hal.[16] The following day, producer John Cohen announced in a tweet thatAwkwafina will voice Courtney, the first named female pig in theAngry Birds franchise that briefly appeared in the teaser.[17]
When the film's first full trailer was released on March 27, 2019, more details about the sequel's characters and their voice roles were revealed. Among several new characters confirmed to appear in the movie was Silver, a bird first introduced in theAngry Birds 2 game, voiced byRachel Bloom, and Ella, voiced byDove Cameron.[18] In June,People revealed the identity of the white bird living with Zeta in the teaser trailer as Debbie, voiced byTiffany Haddish who was one of several voice actors not listed in the initial casting.[19] Later that month, the film's final trailer revealed that Terence, a large red bird from the first film, would appear withoutSean Penn reprising his voice role, andNolan North replacing Penn.[20]
Unlike the previous film, the sequel was co-produced with Rovio Animation and Sony Pictures Animation. While it was possible to reuse assets from the first film instead of starting from scratch, significant work was needed to make them compatible with new technological systems that were adopted in the past few years. The animators faced great challenges attempting to create more realisticfeather systems for the Birds'plumage, even with the help of Sony Pictures Imageworks' existing feather system that was first used inStuart Little (1999), especially when it came to designing the villain Zeta, the hardest character to animate in the film with over 1,000 controls, a very complex face structure and a tall, flexible torso. The team also faced a demanding task in designing visual effects for snow, ice, water and lava for the film and production was also affected by the unavailability of certain animators who were being used to completeSpider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) months prior, as well as the amount of time lost due to Sony moving the film's release date ahead by more than half a month.[21]
Heitor Pereira, who previously composed the first film, returned to compose the score ofThe Angry Birds Movie 2.[22] On July 25, 2019,Kesha released her song "Best Day" for the film as a single.[23] Days later,Luke Combs released a song, "Let's Just Be Friends" for the film as a single as well.[24] Both singles were played in the film's end credits.
Also included on the film wasGiacomo Puccini's aria "Un bel di vedremo" from his operaMadama Butterfly.[25] However this was credited as "Opera", by Heitor Pereira in the soundtrack.
The film's soundtrack, titledThe Angry Birds Movie 2: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released on August 9, 2019, only in digital format and is available to download through payment platforms. It includes two songs previously unreleased and original from the movie:Luke Combs' "Let's Just Be Friends" andKesha's "Best Day (Angry Birds 2 Remix)". The rest of the album consists of a compilation of eighteen classical pop music hits from the 1960s to 2000s decades, in different genres and various artists.[26]
As with the first film, Sony also attempted to connect the film to certainsocial causes while marketing it, leveraging the premise of the threat of worlds being frozen to call attention to urgent action onclimate change[27] and using Silver, who is depicted as a technical expert, as a model to inspire more young women topursue STEM disciplines.[28]
| The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure | |
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| Developer | XR Games |
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| Director | Jake Zim |
| Producer | Joe Lawson |
| Designer | Bobby Thandi |
| Platform | PlayStation 4 |
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| Genres | Platform,action-adventure |
| Modes | Single-player,multiplayer |
A cooperative tie-in video game,The Angry Birds Movie 2 VR: Under Pressure, was released exclusively for thePlayStation 4'sPlayStation VR system[29] on August 6, 2019.[30] The game takes place aboard the Piggy Gadget Lab that the main characters use to get to Eagle Island for the film's climactic confrontation.
Another virtual reality video game,The Angry Birds Movie 2: Prank Attack VR, was released in 2019 in thearcades by Hologate.[31][32][33]
The Angry Birds Movie 2 was theatrically released in the United States on August 14, 2019, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the debut of the originalAngry Birds game.[34] The film was originally scheduled to be released on September 20,[35] September 6,[36] and August 16.[37] This was the last film fromSony Pictures Animation to have an exclusive theatrical release in the United States untilSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse in June 2023 as several of its following movies were released by streaming services such asNetflix andAmazon Prime Video worldwide excluding China, where Sony still theatrically released the films.
The film's North American theatrical release was preceded byHair Love (2019), aKickstarter-funded campaign short film created byMatthew A. Cherry andBruce W. Smith.[38]
The Angry Birds Movie 2 was released on digital andMovies Anywhere bySony Pictures Home Entertainment on October 29, 2019, withBlu-ray,Ultra HD Blu-ray, andDVD releases following on November 12. All releases include an animated short film entitledLive Stream. The Ultra HD Blu-ray version was the first release of its kind to beIMAX enhanced.[39]
The Angry Birds Movie 2 has grossed $41.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $110.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $152.8 million.[2][4]
In the United States and Canada, the film was projected to gross $16–18 million from 3,800 theaters over its first six days of release.[40] It made $2.6 million on its first day, ranking fifth and $1.7 million on its second.[41] It ended up making $16.2 million over the six-day span (including an opening weekend of $10.6 million), finishing in fifth. It was less than a third of the first film's $38.1 million debut, and was blamed on the marketing making the sequel look the same as the first, as well as the crowded marketplace.[42]The Angry Birds Movie 2 completed its theatrical run in the United States and Canada on November 14, 2019.[43]
On thereview aggregator websiteRotten Tomatoes, 72% of 109 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.7/10. The website's consensus reads: "Like its non-aerodynamic title characters,The Angry Birds Movie 2 takes improbable yet delightfully entertaining flight, landing humorous hits along the way."[44] It is rated higher than the first film, and the time of its release was the best-reviewed film adaptation of a video game on Rotten Tomatoes.[b][45][46]Metacritic, which uses aweighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 23 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[47] Audiences polled byCinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale, the same score earned by its predecessor, andPostTrak gave the film a 4 out of 5 stars and 72% "definite recommend" from parents and kids under 12.[41]
Guy Lodge ofVariety summarized his review with: "Perked up by some ingenious slapstick and Leslie Jones' inspired voice work, this gumball-bright sequel to 2016's game-based spinoff is another unexpected pleasure."[48] Sandie Chen ofCommon Sense Media gave the film a three out of five stars stating, "Silly pranks, an ace voice cast, and a super-team mission storyline make this fast-paced sequel more fun than the original. It's a predictably well-intentioned second installment, in which the birds and pigs are forced to work together against an even more formidable foe. It also shows how Red's insecurity lingers, since he was only recently accepted and respected. Although some of the movie's jokes and sight gags are recycled (because, frankly, it's unlikely that little kids will ever get tired of naked piggy-butt jokes), the addition of the third mystery island is interesting enough to keep younger audiences guessing."[49] Stephen Dalton ofThe Hollywood Reporter wrote, "It may lack the refined wit and revered pedigree of blue-chip animation franchises such asToy Story, but it still ticks plenty of lightweight fun boxes for its prime target audience of younger children, with just enough adult humor to keep parents from yawning, too."[50] Bob Hoose ofPlugged In (publication) praised the humor, stating, "Surprisingly, the whole frenetic animated escapade ends up being pretty entertaining and funny. Even adults will, at some point, snort out an unexpected chortle."[51] Simon Thompson ofIGN gave the film a 6 out of 10 stating, "The Angry Birds Movie 2 does what you'd expect it to do, some nice touches move the franchise forward, but it could have dug deeper as some other franchises have. The whole is less than the sum of its parts, but those parts just about make the grade. Kids or a certain age will love it, and ultimately that's all that really matters here."[52]
| Award | Date | Category | Recipients | Result | Ref. |
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| People's Choice Awards | November 10, 2019 | Family Movie of 2019 | The Angry Birds Movie 2 | Nominated | [53] |
| Animated Movie Star of 2019 | Awkwafina | Nominated | |||
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | May 2, 2020 | Favorite Animated Movie | The Angry Birds Movie 2 | Nominated | [54] |
| Favorite Male Voice for an Animated Movie | Josh Gad (sharing his award withFrozen II) | Won |
On June 6, 2024, Rovio announced that a third film was in development, with new parent companySega Sammy Group producing alongside Rovio Animation,Prime Focus Studios,One Cool Films, Flywheel Media, Rabbits Black, andDentsu.[55] John Rice has been attached to direct with Thurop Van Orman writing the screenplay and serving as executive producer while John Cohen, Dan Chuba, and Carla Connor are set to produce, whileJason Sudeikis andJosh Gad would reprise their roles as Red and Chuck, respectively.[56]
On April 8, 2025, it was announced thatParamount Pictures had picked up the distribution rights for the third film, replacingSony Pictures, and set a release date of January 29, 2027. Additionally, the rest of the voice cast was confirmed, withRachel Bloom andDanny McBride reprising their roles as Silver and Bomb.[57][58] On September 18, 2025, the film was pushed back to December 23, 2026, along withJimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson and Salish Matter joining the cast withSmosh creatorsAnthony Padilla andIan Hecox reprising their roles as Hal and Bubbles, respectively.[59]
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