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

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

Surely Owen Wilson can do a lot better than a slipshod animation about time travelling turkeys?

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

The film does boast an appealing buddy pairing in Wilson and Harrelson, a dash of conceptual originality, and some genuinely funny jokes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2013

It's weirdly confusing and structurally unsound, though no more so than any film about time travel, including Looper and Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. It is, however, enjoyable, with some funny lines.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2013

The script is furiously unfunny - in the 17th century part of the story we get a 'my wife's cooking' joke, which certainly feels like it belongs there ...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 28, 2013

Not bootiful.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 25, 2013

Free Birds is not (sorry) a turkey of a film. But it doesn't really soar terribly high either.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 8, 2013

Bad history is a meaningless criticism to lob at an animated film, but the film really has no other outstanding attributes. This one is just for the kids.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 1, 2013

The movie's animal rights, vegetarian message should go down easily with politically correct parents - at least until they choke on the offensive depiction of 17th-century turkeys as face-painted, headband-wearing native Americans.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 1, 2013

Everything about "Free Birds" feels perfunctory, from its generic title and holiday setting to its starry voice cast and undistinguished use of 3-D.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 1, 2013

A stale turkey hash that heaves a lot of ingredients in the oven but never turns on the gas, a frantic attempt to come up with an animated film built around Thanksgiving Day traditions.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 1, 2013

A forgettable - and occasionally borderline offensive - animated tale of turkeys trying to take back Thanksgiving.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2013

All sidekicks and sight gags, with little story cohesion or purpose.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 31, 2013

The concept is inane, and the execution is manic and unoriginal.

| Oct 31, 2013

I think this may be the worst idea for a movie intended for children I have heard since the one about the kid bank robber.

| Original Score: C | Oct 31, 2013

Like the ungainly avian creatures at the center of the herky-jerky adventure, this 'toon seldom gets off the ground.

| Oct 31, 2013

Finally, there's a movie vegetarian parents can enjoy with their impressionable offspring.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 31, 2013

It isn't cute. It isn't really funny. It just kind of is.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 31, 2013

A welcome foray into underexploited territory, conceptually at least.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2013