In one 40-second stretch of the Thanksgiving-themed animated comedy Free Birds, a Pilgrim mother calls a hungry boy “fatty,” a man named Mr. Sardine drops his bowl of tiny fishes on to a pizza and inadvertently inventing the topping, a Native American compares said sardines to smelly socks but admits they're still better than his wife's cooking, and then behind him runs another man pretending his slice of pizza is his... manhood.
The string of gags sums up the latest from Jimmy Hayward (Horton Hears a Who!, Jonah Hex), another act of anthropomorphic animal antics that's more down-the-middle befuddling than uproarious or excruciatingly painful.
In Free Birds, a duo of turkeys time travel back to Plymouth Colony's first Thanksgiving in hopes of swaying them away from consuming what would become the traditional bird of choice. The movie operates with the same logic, heart, and passable animation quality as a standard Saturday morning cartoon -- which is slightly less tolerable when extended to 90 minutes. Will the wee ones laugh? Yes. Will they be aching to get the hell out of there when adorable baby turkeys run scarce and the final act runs completely dry of humor? Probably.
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