
After years of fruitless warning of his farmyard brethren of the coming Thanksgiving doom, Reggie the Turkey finds himself spared as the annual Pardoned Turkey. However, Reggie's easy life is disrupted by Jake, a fanatic turkey who drags him along with the insane idea of going back in time to make sure turkeys are not part of the first Thanksgiving. Through foolhardiness and luck, the pair manage to take an experimental time machine to do just that. Now in 1621 at the Plymout... (Full plot summary below)
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After years of fruitless warning of his farmyard brethren of the coming Thanksgiving doom, Reggie the Turkey finds himself spared as the annual Pardoned Turkey. However, Reggie's easy life is disrupted by Jake, a fanatic turkey who drags him along with the insane idea of going back in time to make sure turkeys are not part of the first Thanksgiving. Through foolhardiness and luck, the pair manage to take an experimental time machine to do just that. Now in 1621 at the Plymouth colony, Reggie and Jake find themselves in the middle of a turkey clan's struggle for survival. In doing so, their preconceptions of the world and themselves are challenged forever in a conflict from which the world will never be the same.
Leave your thoughts about Free Birds.
| Entertainment WeeklyStephan LeeIn the end, the jokes simply aren’t funny enough to lift these flight-challenged fowl off the ground. |
| Boston HeraldStephen SchaeferFree Birds, an animated buddy comedy that evokes the daffiness of classic Chuck Jones cartoons, is no turkey. |
| Film.comKate ErblandA more than worthy (and weird) holiday diversion for the whole family. |
| Movie MezzanineDan SchindelAny given scene from Free Birds seems more like a YouTube parody of stupid children's films than a piece of something that real human beings put together with honest artistic intent. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonThe goal seems to be keeping the pace as fast as possible and filling every frame with slapstick action and quick-hitting jokes so the target audience doesn't become distracted. |
| Entertainment SpectrumJolene MendezKids were laughing every minute at these birds and adults will appreciate the select moments of grown up humor. |
| Reeling ReviewsLaura CliffordWatching this film...is like getting a hearty dose of L-tryptophan. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekUtterly mediocre. It probably won't be long before it goes the way of the dodo. |
| AV ClubKevin McFarlandThe best moments are jokes that feel grafted onto a film that was probably close to completion before anyone involved realized they were portraying a fight between turkeys and English settlers as the largest conflict in the European colonization of North America. |
| Canada.comKatherine MonkFree Birds not only rediscovers the giddy joy of being truly silly, it's confident enough to make us laugh without resorting to regurgitated pop-culture references or grownup double-entendres. |