Birds Like Us

Inspired by Farid-Un-Din Attar's (13th century Persian Poet) Conference of the Birds.

The main story revolves around a female bird, Huppu (voiced by. Alicia Vikander) who is about to lay an egg. In the society where she lives all the birds sacrifice some of there eggs to the ruling Kondor (voiced by Jeremy Irons) in exchange for the fruit they eat to live.

After she gains some insight that there is more to the world than the small protected tree where they have all lived. A group of four birds go on an adventure.

This is where the film go badly. The characters are relativity well defined and the animation is well executed. Voice acting is acceptably, if not inflected.

The story just seems to wander from point to point. The main linking character, the Bat (voiced by Khalid Abdalla), who presumably, is giving sage advise at just the right point to help the birds advance in there understanding of the greater world is far too enigmatic to be understood by these simple birds.

I'm not sure who the film is aimed to reach. It's far too complex for children. It's too mixed up for adolescence and too boring for adults.

"Don't listen to the Naysayers, because what do they say, but Nay?" I can't believe the negative reviews to this movie. Put your phone down and quiet your short attention span. We did. You will be richly rewarded.

Watch this film and open your mind to the possibilities in the world. Listen. It's message is simple, uplifting, and just the antidote we needed to a dreary day. The animation is actually mind blowing, just not in a style of its contemporaries. I say it's better. Think FernGully : The Last Rainforest, compared to its contemporaries. If you love Peter Gabriel (we do), the soundtrack and songs are great, as well. Highly recommended.

This animation film is so stupid. The plot is so boring, the characters are so ugly and the voice acting is not that good. The worst of all, the way they animate the characters isn't smooth. Thus, the quality is very low. I feel like I'm watching a 1900s animation. It's so bad that I couldn't endure it after 30 minutes. So, I stopped watching it.

My advice? Watch it only when you have nothing to watch and you have to waste your time.

Animation is very amateur at best certainly doesn't feel like a 2017 production. Story is all over the place. My kids were bored after 10 minutes so had to turn it off.

I've never been stoned, but I think watching this came pretty close. Who made this? Who approved it? Who wants to watch it? It is easily the stupidest movie I've ever seen and 90 minutes I'll never get back. There wasn't even one redeeming quality. Pure unadulterated garbage. Possibly based on Plato's allegory of the cage. I'm not sure.