My local public library has this on DVD, that is why I watched it. We used it as a diversion, a time-killer for 90 minutes while we waited for "The Good Wife" to come on.
It is mostly just very silly, but it is filled with so much silliness that some of it is funny and entertaining. Reggie is a small but very bright turkey at a turkey farm. While all the other turkeys think the farmer is their buddy, because he feeds them corn, Reggie knows they are just being fattened for Thanksgiving dinner. He tries to get them all to run away and save themselves, but he ends up being caught instead.
It turns out the POTUS is looking for the traditional turkey to "pardon", he thinks Reggie is too small, but his young daughter insists, and Reggie is saved. But more important to the story, he gets to try out a new, top-secret time-travel device called S.T.E.V.E. Along with another turkey, a big strong one, Jake.
So the time-machine is a smart one, all you have to do it talk to it, fortunately the turkeys spoke English. Most of the movie's running time has the turkeys in 1621, meeting up with native turkeys of that time, also trying to avoid capture by the Pilgrims.
One thing very nice about the sound track, there are many "effects", including explosions and there is ample deep, room-shaking bass in the LFE channel. We were entertained, but it is just a fluff of an extended cartoon.
Owen Wilson is very good voicing Reggie. The other turkey that time- travels with him is Jake, voiced by Woody Harrelson, and while Harrelson has a pleasant voice, it never seemed to fit the character. Reggie meets and falls for a girl turkey in 1621, Amy Poehler voicing Jenny. George Takei was very good as the voice of the time machine, S.T.E.V.E.
It is mostly just very silly, but it is filled with so much silliness that some of it is funny and entertaining. Reggie is a small but very bright turkey at a turkey farm. While all the other turkeys think the farmer is their buddy, because he feeds them corn, Reggie knows they are just being fattened for Thanksgiving dinner. He tries to get them all to run away and save themselves, but he ends up being caught instead.
It turns out the POTUS is looking for the traditional turkey to "pardon", he thinks Reggie is too small, but his young daughter insists, and Reggie is saved. But more important to the story, he gets to try out a new, top-secret time-travel device called S.T.E.V.E. Along with another turkey, a big strong one, Jake.
So the time-machine is a smart one, all you have to do it talk to it, fortunately the turkeys spoke English. Most of the movie's running time has the turkeys in 1621, meeting up with native turkeys of that time, also trying to avoid capture by the Pilgrims.
One thing very nice about the sound track, there are many "effects", including explosions and there is ample deep, room-shaking bass in the LFE channel. We were entertained, but it is just a fluff of an extended cartoon.
Owen Wilson is very good voicing Reggie. The other turkey that time- travels with him is Jake, voiced by Woody Harrelson, and while Harrelson has a pleasant voice, it never seemed to fit the character. Reggie meets and falls for a girl turkey in 1621, Amy Poehler voicing Jenny. George Takei was very good as the voice of the time machine, S.T.E.V.E.