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Elf (2003)
Directed by Jon Favreau
influenced The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Characters Plot Themes
Russell’s performance takes nothing away from previous Saint Nicks, such as Ed Asner’s gruff and tender turn in 2003’s “Elf” or, going way back in time, Edmund Gwenn’s timeless performance in 1947’s “Miracle on 34th Street.”
What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: If you expand the last third of Elf out to feature length, you’re pretty much on point.
There’s the family and friends gathering around James Stewart at the conclusion of It’s a Wonderful Life, the defiant Hugh Grant speech in Love, Actually and Zooey Deschanel leading a sing-along in Elf.
There’s nothing in The Christmas Chronicles * that hasn’t been seen before, from the “Christmas Spirit” ticking clock of Elf to the magical-realist shortcuts for Santa’s tricks from The Santa Clause – Santa zapping around the world through Aurora Borealis-esque wormholes and so on.
Nobody's going to say that The Angry Birds Movie had to be George Orwell's Animal Farm for the millennial set, despite the presence of evil pigs.
Super Mario Brothers (1993) was novel but awful, Mortal Kombat (1995) cashed in on arcade fame and blew it, and Wing Commande r (1999) was tragic.
Super Mario Brothers (1993) was novel but awful, Mortal Kombat (1995) cashed in on arcade fame and blew it, and Wing Commande r (1999) was tragic.
Longtime Simpsons and King of the Hill writer Jon Vitti provides a backstory that centers on Red (Sudeikis), a curmudgeonly, flightless waterfowl living on Bird Island.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Directed by Simon West
influenced The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
Themes
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) was okay, Silent Hill (2006) was at least genuinely creepy and the Resident Evil movies have a cult following.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) was okay, Silent Hill (2006) was at least genuinely creepy and the Resident Evil movies have a cult following.
It's the directorial debut of veteran animator Clay Kaytis ("Frozen," ''Tangled") and storyboard artist Fergal Reilly ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," ''The Iron Giant"), who are working off a script from "The Simpsons" alum Jon Vitti.
Kaytis served as an animator on Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Chicken Little (2005) while Reilly worked as a storyboard artist on Spider-Man 2 (2004) and The Iron Giant (1999).
Kaytis served as an animator on Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Chicken Little (2005) while Reilly worked as a storyboard artist on Spider-Man 2 (2004) and The Iron Giant (1999).
As first-time directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly (a former animator and a storyboard artist) show how the gentle creatures first got grumpy, Wreck-It Ralph is a closer comparison.
Kaytis served as an animator on Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Chicken Little (2005) while Reilly worked as a storyboard artist on Spider-Man 2 (2004) and The Iron Giant (1999).
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) was okay, Silent Hill (2006) was at least genuinely creepy and the Resident Evil movies have a cult following.
Jack Reacher (2012)
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
influenced The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Characters
Before the movie is over, Russell’s Santa will have channelled his inner Jack Reacher by racing a sexy sports car away from the cops, consequently landed himself in jail and even charmed his jailers with a yuletide musical number totally out of nowhere (complete with a cameo from E Street Band legend Steven Van Zandt).
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
influenced The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
Visuals
Assuming the film is a hit, and we get a sequel, let’s try to make The Angry Birds Movie 2 more like Hotel Transylvania and less like The Smurfs.
Angry Birds is done by first time directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, who did art and animation work on gems like Hotel Transylvania and Frozen.
In a similar vein to Hotel Transylvania , the film translates a lot of the timing and movement of 2D animation into a 3D environment, making for visual humour that is fast and funny in all of the right ways.
Kaytis served as an animator on Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Chicken Little (2005) while Reilly worked as a storyboard artist on Spider-Man 2 (2004) and The Iron Giant (1999).
And not helping is the movie being written by Jon Vitti, who penned two of the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies.
They simply keep eating and dancing and engaging in scenes that allow the film’s screenwriter—Jon Vitti, who is best known for his work on The Simpsons but is also responsible for Alvin and the Chipmunks —to make many, many pig-and-bird puns.
If you like puns, the script by Jon Vitti (Alvin and the Chipmunks) has a million groaners.
At a bare minimum, you’d expect the script to try to differentiate between healthy and unhealthy anger, but screenwriter Jon Vitti (who also wrote the first two Alvin and the Chipmunks movies) doesn’t see the need to bother.
Jon Vitti, who has written for The Simpsons (good) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (bad), The Angry Birds Movie takes a lot of familiar genre elements (outsider/loner forced to come good), and does very little that’s new with them.
Though the film marks the official launch of an expansive Netflix holiday slate that also includes sequels to Vanessa Hudgens’ cheesy romance The Princess Switch and Kurt Russell’s family adventure The Christmas Chronicles , Holidate is more in line with the bawdy ethos of Office Christmas Party or A Bad Moms Christmas —at least until it fully embraces the rom-com hokiness it lampoons at the start.
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
Directed by Phil Lord
influenced The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
It's the directorial debut of veteran animator Clay Kaytis ("Frozen," ''Tangled") and storyboard artist Fergal Reilly ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," ''The Iron Giant"), who are working off a script from "The Simpsons" alum Jon Vitti.
Angry Birds is done by first time directors Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, who did art and animation work on gems like Hotel Transylvania and Frozen.
Considering that the co-directors, Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly, have backgrounds in animation (Kaytis having worked on a number of major Disney productions, starting with Pocahontas and extending through Frozen ).
It's the directorial debut of veteran animator Clay Kaytis ("Frozen," ''Tangled") and storyboard artist Fergal Reilly ("Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," ''The Iron Giant"), who are working off a script from "The Simpsons" alum Jon Vitti.
Ever-ticked-off Red (Jason Sudeikis) winds up in an anger-management class taught by Maya Rudolph’s Matilda and populated by hulking Terence (Sean Penn, if you can believe it), speedy Chuck (Josh Gad of Frozen ), and volatile Bomb (Danny McBride, doing what sounds like his Seth Rogen impression).
Josh Gad is also good as Chuck, but his performance feels very, very similar to the one he did as Olaf in Frozen.
Kaytis served as an animator on Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Chicken Little (2005) while Reilly worked as a storyboard artist on Spider-Man 2 (2004) and The Iron Giant (1999).
While some video game properties have started to lean into their weirdness like Pokemon: Detective Pikachu and The Angry Birds Movie, Jeff Fowler‘s adaptation works to be as palatable as possible, and on that level, it works.
Sasha Tran (Ali Wong: The Angry Birds Movie) is a hugely successful Los Angeles celebrity chef with a hot — in all senses of the word — fiancé in Brandon Choi (Daniel Dae Kim: Hellboy, Mirai), entrepreneur and investor in her foodie projects, but maybe that relationship isn’t going so well?