Oddball Turkeys: Free Birds

    Happy Thanksgiving! For my foreign readers, it's Thanksgiving day over here in America! 
While we give thanks, the most iconic part of this official American holiday is the dinner. Cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, stuffing, and of course, the turkey! But what if we didn't eat turkey on Thanksgiving? That, ladies and gentlemen, is what Free Birds is all about. 

     Once upon a time, a young turkey by the name of Reggie lives on a turkey farm. But Reggie knows something the other turkeys fail to realize: They're being raised only for one of them to be eaten each year for Thanksgiving! Year after year, the turkeys won't listen to Reggie's warnings. Reggie's life isn't the best, but that changes when he's chosen to be the "Pardoned Turkey", which spares him from the certain fate of being a meal. Enjoying his new life in the President's home, Reggie is suddenly kidnapped by a turkey named Jake. Knowing of a secret time machine, Jake takes Reggie back almost 400 years to stop the first Thanksgiving and save all turkeys. Will they succeed, or are they doomed to remain the #1 Thanksgiving course?

     Any repetition in the film? Yes and no. For a Thanksgiving film, the food we seem to see most is pizza. Why pizza? For one thing, our American go-to seems to be pizza. Who doesn't love that cheesy, red-tomato deep dish goodness? I know I do! With that being the case, pizza seems to represent America a little since it's so common. (I know, I know, it's Italian.)

      Thanksgiving has a tendency to dish out comedies. (No pun intended.) Free Birds is one of those. And even better, it's for the whole family! One the comic relief character as well as one of our heroes is Jake. Even thought his past is sad, he became kind and good as well as funny. Nonetheless, every character in Free Birds has something amusing to offer, bringing a smile to your happy turkey day. 

     You can't have a good film without good actors. Free Birds has that. With the talents of the one and only Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, and Amy Poehler, Free Birds makes yet another addition for the Thanksgiving playlist. But don't forget to be thankful. One thing to be thankful for is the fact that you're not the turkey this year. After all, what is Thanksgiving without the thanks?

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