'The Angry Birds Movie 2' isn't entirely flightless

by Trevor Sheffield Fun fact: As of this moment, there are eleven Angry Birds games currently available on the American Apple App Store. Want an even more fun fact? Only two of them are actually Angry Birds. The rest are spin-offs: match-3 titles, a Snood clone, multiple RPGs, an AR-enhanced 3D version of the regular formula, and what looks like a Pokémon Go clone. It’s strange to think that a property like Angry Birds (put out by Finnish games developer Rovio) would go on to become for the smartphone what Mario is for home console gaming. It’s even stranger to think that most of the original games, including the ORIGINAL Angry Birds, are now permanently gone. Unless you still have it downloaded on an old phone somewhere in the back of your junk drawer, games like those first few iterations of Angry Birds and even some of the spin-offs that were praised to critical acclaim have gone the way of Kojima’s P.T.; remembered, but left to the annals of history as a result of corporate restructuring and, at the heart of it all, greed. A long time ago, Rovio was a small fish in a big ocean. Then, it killed a shark, and became the end-all be-all. Now, we live in a world where we have toys, clothing, school-wear, cookbooks, Qatarian theme parks and ultimately movies all based off of this simplistic little thing that we played when we had nothing better to do. So, here we are in 2019, with another theatrical outing for this oddly vivacious franchise. All things considered, my expectations have been sufficiently subverted.

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