Another view on Angry Birds…

Though Angry Birds (2016, USA) is about birds, there is a very human element to proceedings. Anger.

No wonder Red, Chuck and Bomb, and Terrence, are angry, in this animation.

These lovable talking birds, that have human-like attributes, naturally resist going to anger management classes. Who really wants to go?

Shame!

Red is ordered by Judge Peckingpah to do sessions, to curb his temper. Red, naturally, does not want to go. Whatever triggered his anger was an “accident”.

The next day, he is walking towards the “clinic” and someone says chirpily, “Hello, Red. How are you?”

Red replies, “Horrible.”

Who really wants to go to anger management classes? Red is saying the honest truth. We admire Red for saying so.

The pathway to the clinic leads to an unusual, annoying sounding sign that ruffles Red’s feathers. He gets redder and redder in his cheeks. Then, he breathes out.  The release didn’t last long. He tackles the sign down in a huff (inappropriate, but for animated bird perhaps more accepted).

There is worse to come. He has to endure the anger management class. What makes enduring this bearable are his friends Chuck and Bomb. He is surprised to see them there. They try to lighten the load by having fun, like you would at school.

Red’s problems seemed to begin because he couldn’t handle his temper at a birthday party gone wrong. He was the party clown, but when he got there, not on time, everything went downhill, so much so, that he lost the plot.

Enter Judge Peckingpah.

(Who is hilarious, by the way)

But his problems are earthier. His is a flightless bird with other flightless birds on an isolated island far from civilization. Then, the mysterious little green pigs come.

The list goes on and on…

It would drive someone to anger.

But anger does not make the person. Red, for one, has qualities that shine, what we may call his “redeeming qualities”.

Sure, let’s curb our anger (it is ugly and we can live without it), but anger is not the end of a person (I mean, bird).