Angry Birds X: The Fine-Feathered Movie/Tropes/YMMV


 * And You Thought It Would Fail: When the trailers came out, critics are positively mixed with this film and most believed it would be nothing more beyond a rip-off to both The Angry Birds Movie and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Few people could have predicted it would turn out to be a fantastic film adaptation of a cartoon with stellar traditional animation, unique blend of animation and live-action, hillarious Tex Avery-esque slapstick humor, unforgettable characters, an engaging plot, and a brilliant deconstruction of certain tropes. By the time of the film's release, it received critically acclaimed reviews, gaining a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, and did exceptionally well at the box office.
 * Author's Saving Throw: From the fans perspective, the fact that the Flock didn't have arms and legs in this movie unlike The Angry Birds Movie which receives mixed reception, has won the fans.
 * Awesome Art: Seriously, LOOK AT THE THING!!! Richard Williams and Eric Goldberg did an incredible job with the hand-drawn animation on the Flock in the live-action scenes.
 * The Flock when they transitioned into CGI when they got transported into the real world is absolutely gorgeous, looking fresh and updated while still keeping true to the spirit and look of both the series and Angry Birds Toons. It also helps that it's done by Blue Sky Studios, the same animation studio that did Horton Hears a Who and The Peanuts Movie. Of note is that this is perhaps the first time where all the characters are exactly on-model to both their mobile app and Toons counterparts.
 * The end credits features art that depicts the Flock and the Pigs in the style of the classic Angry Birds video games. And they all look amazing.
 * He Really Can Act: The voice actors' performances as The Flock are phenomenal, especially Jim Cummings as Hal, Curtis Armstrong as Red, and John DiMaggio as Bomb.
 * Tim Curry is surprising great as Baron Harmful.
 * Even the performances of the live actors feel genuine and believable, similar to how Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
 * Signature Scene: Many.
 * The prologue.
 * The conversation between Hal and Scarlett Johansson.
 * Bomb and the Flock launching themselves with a slingshot.
 * Baron Harmful getting what assumed to be the Eggs and attempting to eat them, only to find out that they're egg shaped rocks painted to look like the flock's Eggs and the real eggs to have been cleverly saved by Hal.
 * Visual Effects of Awesome: While few of the designs themselves fall somewhat under Uncanny Valley, the cel-shaded CG for the Flock when they got transported to the real world is very well-done in keeping the same kind of stylized cartoony look of the show as they are very nicely implemented into the live-action environment.
 * All the animation was done by Toon Boom Harmony, and then sent off to Sony Pictures Imageworks to be optically composited, along with separately-animated shadows and highlights, into the live-action footage!
 * All of the effects are either practical or provides by Sony Pictures Imageworks: every single prop or piece of scenery being manipulated by a toon, from the piano playing to something as innocuous as a toon lifting a drink to their mouth, required either highly-skilled puppeteers or a machine invented solely for that movement to be placed on-set as a stand-in for the non-existent toon!
 * Win the Crowd: Fans were relieved that the movie chose to emulate the original Angry Birds game with The Flock's designs in the movie (via 2D animation in their world and the prologue or shaded CGI in the real world) instead of the reviled hyper-realistic designs of movies of its kind in the past.