The Angry Birds Movie 2


The Angry Birds Movie 2 is a 2019 animated comedy film based on the Angry Birds video game series. Directed by Thurop Van Orman and written by Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart, the film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, and Peter Dinklage reprising their roles from the first film, with Leslie Jones, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina, Sterling K. Brown, and Eugenio Derbez joining the cast. In the film, the birds are forced to team up with the pigs to stop Eagle Island's leader from destroying both of their islands.
Heitor Pereira returned to compose the film's score, with artists such as Kesha and Luke Combs contributing tracks for the film. It also features classical pop songs from the 1960s to 2000s, as in the first film.
The Angry Birds Movie 2 was theatrically released in Finland on August 7, 2019, by SF Studios, and in the United States on August 14, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $153 million on a $65 million budget. A sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 3, is due to be released on December 23, 2026.

Plot

On Bird Island, Red has become a hero after saving the island, leading the birds in a prank war against the pigs of Piggy Island, led by Leonard. One day, a giant ice ball from the distant Eagle Island crashes near Piggy Island, prompting Leonard to call for a truce and propose an alliance with the birds. The new threat comes from Zeta, the leader of Eagle Island, who is tired of living on the island and plans to take over both islands by launching lava-filled balls of ice from her superweapon. Meanwhile, Red struggles with insecurity, fearing he will no longer be admired if peace is achieved. His friends Chuck and Bomb invite him to a speed dating event, where Red meets Chuck's sister, Silver, an engineering student who deems him incompatible. At the same time, three hatchlings—Zoe, Vincent, and Samantha—accidentally lose Zoe's unhatched sisters and embark on a quest to retrieve them.
Leonard visits Red and convinces him to form a team and infiltrate Eagle Island. They recruit Chuck, Bomb, Silver, Leonard's assistant Courtney, and Mighty Eagle. The group plans their mission in Mighty Eagle's cave but is interrupted when Zeta's weapon destroys part of Eagle Mountain, frightening the other birds. To reach Eagle Island, the team uses a submarine built by pig inventor Garry. Red insists that evacuation is unnecessary, hoping to preserve his heroic image.
Upon arrival, Mighty Eagle reveals that Zeta was once his fiancée, but he abandoned her out of cowardice. Upon arriving, Red decides to infiltrate the weapon alone, though Silver follows him. The pair sneak into the cannon's entrance but are quickly captured. Zeta reveals her plan to bombard the islands with lava-filled ice balls to force evacuation. Regretting his decisions, Red admits to Silver that his actions were driven by his fear of losing popularity. Silver comforts him, and together they escape.
Elsewhere, the rest of the team disguises themselves as an eagle to infiltrate the base and obtain a keycard. They reunite with Red and Silver, who devise a plan to destroy the cannon as it begins to charge. Red and Silver encase themselves in an ice ball and attempt to destroy the weapon from within, but their plan fails. As Zeta prepares to fire the cannon, Mighty Eagle confronts her and apologizes for abandoning her. Zeta dismisses him, revealing that her assistant, Debbie, is actually their daughter. While Zeta is distracted, Chuck ties the weapon using Silver's latest invention, a type of string with enhanced durability, which slows the launched lava balls. When the string begins to break, the hatchlings, who have recovered their eggs, arrive and help hold the line. The lava balls are pulled back into the cannon, causing it to explode and destroy the base. Everyone escapes, and Mighty Eagle saves Debbie from falling debris, redeeming himself in Zeta's eyes.
Afterwards, Mighty Eagle and Zeta marry on Bird Island as the truce continues. Red credits the team—especially Silver—for saving the islands, earning more admiration from islanders. Red and Silver begin a relationship to Chuck's mild annoyance. Meanwhile, the hatchlings discover they mistakenly rescued a boa constrictor's eggs instead of Zoe's sisters. The hatchlings and the snake exchange their babies before Zoe's sisters drift away out to sea... again..

Voice cast

Development

A sequel to The Angry Birds Movie was announced in August 2016. It was directed by creator Thurop Van Orman, who previously created The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack for Cartoon Network, co-directed by John Rice, and written by Peter Ackerman. John Cohen returned from The Angry Birds Movie to serve as producer, with animation again handled by Sony Pictures Imageworks. Imageworks' sister studio Sony Pictures Animation also released the film under their banner, despite having dropped out of co-producing the project beforehand and had not co-produced the first film either.
In the summer of 2017, production designer Pete Oswald stated that the sequel would be more of an adventure movie that introduces new characters and locations into the world first established in The Angry Birds Movie. While he was not in a position to offer further details about the plot and characters, which remained unknown until the months before the film's release, he expressed hope that it would be a better film than the first installment.
The creative decision to break from the games' source material and have the birds and pigs end their conflict and form an alliance to face a greater threat was one that was made out of a desire to surprise audiences with a new experience with the same characters, as well as attempt to outdo what was accomplished in the first film with an unprecedented level of creative freedom available. Josh Gad stated that the production team went forward with such idea because it was not only an "ingenious" one, but also because they felt it would feel most appropriate in light of the increasingly polarized political climate at the time, as people who disagree on significant issues struggle to find common ground.
Overall, the budget was approximately $65 million.

Casting

In April 2018, the majority of the voice cast was announced. Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader, and Peter Dinklage will reprise their roles from the first film. Leslie Jones will voice a new female villain, revealed to be Zeta in the teaser trailer. In December 2018, Nicki Minaj joined the cast of the film. Upon its release, the teaser trailer briefly revealed that Hal, a green boomerang bird from the games and the first film, would return in the sequel, with Anthony Padilla returning to voice Hal. The following day, producer John Cohen announced in a tweet that Awkwafina will voice Courtney, the first named female pig in the Angry Birds franchise that briefly appeared in the teaser.
When the film's first full trailer was released on March 27, 2019, more details about the sequel's characters and their voice roles were revealed. Among several new characters confirmed to appear in the movie was Silver, a bird first introduced in the Angry Birds 2 game, voiced by Rachel Bloom, and Ella, voiced by Dove Cameron. In June, People revealed the identity of the white bird living with Zeta in the teaser trailer as Debbie, voiced by Tiffany Haddish who was one of several voice actors not listed in the initial casting. Later that month, the film's final trailer revealed that Terence, a large red bird from the first film, would appear without Sean Penn reprising his voice role, and Nolan North replacing Penn.

Animation

Unlike the previous film, the sequel was co-produced with Rovio Animation and Sony Pictures Animation. While it was possible to reuse assets from the first film instead of starting from scratch, significant work was needed to make them compatible with new technological systems that were adopted in the past few years. The animators faced great challenges attempting to create more realistic feather systems for the Birds' plumage, even with the help of Sony Pictures Imageworks' existing feather system that was first used in Stuart Little, especially when it came to designing the villain Zeta, the hardest character to animate in the film with over 1,000 controls, a very complex face structure and a tall, flexible torso. The team also faced a demanding task in designing visual effects for snow, ice, water and lava for the film and production was also affected by the unavailability of certain animators who were being used to complete Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse months prior, as well as the amount of time lost due to Sony moving the film's release date ahead by more than half a month.