25 Most Hotly Anticipated Movies Of Summer 2016 - Ranked
22. The Angry Birds Movie
Release Date: May 20th
Billed As: That game you used to play all the time on the toilet. Only now you can't play it.
Hype: I'll be perfectly honest here, I tried extremely hard not to be excited for an Angry Birds film. As cynical cash-ins go, a film based on ann app that involved firing birds at alien pigs from a catapult just never seemed particularly ripe for adaptation. But damn it, I'm excited despite myself.
It helps that Sony have hired great voice actors for the animation and that the story looks simple enough and has enough potential for comedy that we can all forget where it came from. And if The LEGO Movie can be great, it's perhaps time to stop worrying about what is being adapted.
It'll be hard to really feel invested in the stakes, but it's not like anyone is going to wander into the cinema expecting something from Angry Birds it's not going to deliver. Just maybe don't get your hopes up for another LEGO Movie.