Every year, the president pardons one turkey. But why just him? And why just one turkey? Free Birds 3D – Hollywood film review
A 3D animated comedy film that features the voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler.
It is an adventurous journey of Jake, a turkey who is the President of the Turkeys Liberation Front and Reggie, a turkey that is pardoned by the President of the United States. This pair of turkeys travel back in a time machine to the first Thanksgiving (sometime in the 16th century) in a bid to erase the traditional item off the menu. Jake has one point agenda – We are the turkey freedom front. Our Mission: Get turkeys off the thanksgiving menu.
And then there is the sweet Jenny, a turkey and Reggie’s love interest with a strange tendency of dropping her eyeball in her nervous moments.
In this hilarious, adventurous buddy comedy for audiences of all ages, directed by Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!), 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 Thanksgiving menu for good.
Reggie the Turkey (voice of Owen Wilson) has always been scared of Thanksgiving because turkeys have always been on the menu. His thinking isn’t endorsed by others in his farm based flock, instead this ideology has made him an outcast.
Other turkeys want to get rid of him and they throw Reggie to the wolves in an attempt to save themselves.
But Reggie is lucky. In a surprise twist of fate, the Present’s child likes this lean turkey wandering around, and the kid becomes fond of it instantly. So Reggie winds up being named the “pardoned turkey” by the President of the United States (Jimmy Hayward) and is subsequently taken to Camp David.
Now Reggie gets the VVIP treatment at Camp David and gets into a routine of doing nothing but enjoying pizzas.
A few days before Thanksgiving, Reggie gets kidnapped by Jake (Woody Harrelson), the president and the only member of Turkeys Liberation Front.
A “Great Turkey” has instructed Jake to find Reggie and accompany him back to the first Thanksgiving with him to take turkeys off the menu once and for all. Jake and Reggie travel back to the same day in the year 1621 in an egg shaped time machine with an A.I. software named S.T.E.V.E. (George Takei).
They are straight away attacked by colonial hunters led by Myles Standish (Colm Meaney). The turkeys are hiding from the settlers and Red Indians and they are forced to ‘go underground’.
Reggie and Jake are rescued by native turkeys led by Chief Broadbeak (Keith David). Jenny (Amy Poehler) is the Chief’s daughter who falls in love with Reggie.
The settlers have already begun preparations for Thanksgiving and how Reggie and Jake manage to rescue the caged turkeys and save the rest of their race is interesting.
Voices of
Owen Wilson as Reggie
Woody Harrelson as Jake
Amy Poehler as Jenny
Dan Fogler as Governor Bradford
George Takei as S.T.E.V.E. – The egg shaped time machine
Colm Meaney as Myles Standish
Keith David as Chief Broadbeak
Jimmy Hayward as President of the United States
Carlos Alazraqui as Amos
Josh Lawson as Gus
Danny Carey as Danny
Carlos Ponce as Narrator, Alejandro
Robert Beltran as Chief Massasoit
Credits:
Studio – Relativity Media, Reel FX Creative Studios
Produced by Scott Mosier, Craig Mazin, John J. Strauss, David l. Stern
Directed by Jimmy Hayward
Screenplay by Jimmy Hayward, Scott Mosier
Story by David I. Stern, John J. Strauss
Music by Dominic Lewis
Editing by John Venzon
Free Birds 3D – Hollywood film review
