Feels average, like a flightless bird trying to soar with the Pixars of the genre.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

It's nice to get a Thanksgiving movie that doesn't revolve around tedious family drama. Though you may wind up having in uncomfortable conversation with your kids about exactly where your holiday meal comes from.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 8, 2020

Much can be overlooked if such a movie is rollicking good fun. But Free Birds isn't even that. That's right, I'm going to say it. It's a turkey-and not one of the time-traveling freedom-fighter species, either.

| Mar 11, 2020

Free Birds is a quite surprising little family movie. That concept of time-traveling turkeys to stop Thanksgiving is something you think would be deserving of a "c'mon son" greatly.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 11, 2020

Rather than a holiday treat, Free Birds has itself ended up something of a Thanksgiving turkey.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 6, 2019

It is trying very hard not to say anything real one way or another, but it's not amusing enough to distract us from the script, and the script is trying so hard to be noncommittal that it can't fall back on substance either.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 19, 2019

Free Birds, an animated buddy comedy that evokes the daffiness of classic Chuck Jones cartoons, is no turkey.

| Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2017

Free Birds is a funny film.

| Nov 29, 2017

Free Birds is quite forgettable and generic for your liking. If your kid still insists, let him or her watch it. Meanwhile, you can dream of a scrumptious meal, while taking a short nap in the theatre.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 18, 2017

In the end, this freeform history lesson is a flightless foul.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 8, 2016

Much of the better comedy is wasted on the younger viewers, with complex historical and cultural references kids just won't get.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 23, 2016

Any given scene from Free Birds seems more like a YouTube parody of stupid children's films than a piece of something that real human beings put together with honest artistic intent.

| Original Score: D | Apr 8, 2014

These birds are good to look at, and you can easily get caught up in the characters. But the situation is a bit too much to swallow . . . even for Thanksgiving.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 9, 2014

This family-friendly animation gets off to an amusing start but soon flies off into la-la land.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2014

The muddled story and lacklustre animation makes this a film that's strictly for the birds.

| Jan 19, 2014

Anyone who's seen Chicken Run will wonder why they're not enjoying a well-constructed Aardman animation rather than attempting to make sense of this incoherent transatlantic trifle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 1, 2013

More of a Turkey Twizzler than a sizzler, Free Birds isn't funny enough to leave adults rolling in the aisles, nor does it have a sustained sense of peril to leave children on the edge of their seats.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 30, 2013

Ultimately embarrassing and even offensive but has an offbeat premise, some neat characters and plenty of guffaw-worthy gags.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2013

I can't bring myself to say that this film is a you-know-what. Let's just say that there should be no pardon. It deserves to die a death.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 29, 2013

The animation is good but the plotting is too slow and unclear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2013