Review of Free Birds

Free Birds (2013)
7/10
Deserved a 2014 Oscar Animation Nomination
1 February 2014
7.5 of 10. The combination of intelligent, talking turkeys with time travel works to cancel out the nonsense parts of this cartoon like 2 negatives being multiplied in a math problem. The rest of the story is bordering on genius story telling to go along with impressive animation, covering subtleties like feathers to water to fuse burning.

Sadly, Disney bought its way into the Academy awards with Frozen, so the only way this was getting in was by replacing another genius story with less impressive animation like Ernest & Celestine. As both involve intelligent animal-based fantasies, we can at least look forward to them potentially working together to create a masterpiece that overcomes Oscar nominators being sold out.

All the award BS aside, one of the few great holiday cartoons that will be worth watching year after year far into the future.
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