Genre:
Animation, Family
Director:
Jimmy Hayward
Starring:
Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson
Release Date:
Friday 01 November
Free Birds is a 2013 American 3D computer-animated buddy
comedy film produced by Reel FX Creative Studios. Jimmy Hayward directed the
film, which features the voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler.
Originally titled Turkeys and scheduled for 2014, it was released on November
1, 2013 by Relativity Media.
Plot
Reggie the Turkey (Owen Wilson) has always been afraid of
Thanksgiving because turkeys have always been on the menu. However, his
attempts to warn his farm based flock constantly fall to deaf ears and has made
him an outcast. When the other turkeys finally realize what's going on, they
throw Reggie to the wolves in an attempt to save themselves. In a surprise
twist of fate, he winds up being named the "pardoned turkey" by the
President of the United States (Jimmy Hayward) and is subsequently taken to
Camp David. Although initially hesitant, Reggie soon eases into a routine of
doing nothing but enjoying pizza and telenovelas.
However, about three days before Thanksgiving, Reggie gets
bag-kidnapped by Jake (Woody Harrelson), the president and the only member of
Turkeys Liberation Front. Jake tells him that a "Great Turkey"
told him to find Reggie and take him back to the first Thanksgiving with him to
take turkeys off the menu once and for all. Despite interference by federal
officials and several attempts by Reggie to trick him back to the surface, Jake
manages to commandeer an egg shaped time machine with an AI software named
S.T.E.V.E. (George Takei) and takes Reggie with him back to the same day in
1621. Once there, they are immediately attacked and separated by colonial
hunters led by Myles Standish (Colm Meaney) but are quickly rescued by native
turkeys led by Chief Broadbeak (Keith David) and his two children, Hunter and
Jenny (Amy Poehler), the latter of whom Reggie is immediately smitten with.
Broadbeak explains that the turkeys in the area have been forced underground
since the settlers came and that they can't risk fighting back without the
settler taking them.
The next day, Broadbreak has Jake go with Hunter to spy on
the settlers with Reggie and Jenny spring all the hunting traps they've set up.
Despite initial hostility, Hunter and Jake find out that the settlers have
already begun preparations for Thanksgiving as well as where they hold their
weapons. Meanwhile, Jenny, who believes Reggie is making up being from the
future, is impressed with his unorthodox way of springing the traps. However,
they are soon intercepted by Standish and Reggie is forced to get her in orbit
over the planet aboard S.T.E.V.E., validating everything he said in the
process. Reggie tries to convince Jenny to go back to the future with him once
everything blows over, but she tells him she can't bring herself to leave the
flock no matter how much she likes him.
Jake drags Reggie away from Jenny and tells him he has a
plan to attack the settlers. However, Reggie has gotten sick of all his
unproved stories and threatens to leave. Desperate, Jake tells him that this
trip was more about him making up for him not being able to save three turkey
eggs while escaping a turkey fattening facility when he was younger, although
still maintaining that the Great Turkey convinced him to go through with this.
While still reluctant to believe what he said, Reggie sill goes along with the
plan. They manage to use gunpowder to destroy the weapons shack, but Jake
inadvertently leaves a gunpowder trail back to the tree the turkeys are hiding
under. Standish and his men flush the turkeys out from underground, capturing
enough for the feast and killing Broadbeak in the ensuing panic. Jenny is named
the new chief and orders the remaining turkeys to prepare an attack on the
settlers. Despite Jake's attempts to get him to stay, a heartbroken Reggie
heads back to the present.
Once back at Camp David, Reggie is confronted by three
future versions of himself. Through the awkward conversation, Reggie discovers
that he was the Great Turkey, having used S.T.E.V.E. to throw his voice and
appearance. Inspired, Reggie goes back in time to stop the attack, trapping
Standish in a hole in time in the process. Through S.T.E.V.E. and the pizza
delivery boy from the start of the film, Reggie convinces the settlers and the
arriving Indians that pizza is a more acceptable meal than turkeys, taking them
off the meal entirely. In the end, Reggie decides to stay with Jenny while Jake
takes S.T.E.V.E. in order to look for new adventure. However, Jake returns
moments after leaving and implies that their antics have caused the future to
be thrown out of whack.
=============================================================================
References.
External links:
"Main Page." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 5 Nov. 2013. Web. 5 Nov. 2013. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>.
https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
=============================================================================
No comments:
Post a Comment