“Free Birds,” an animated buddy comedy that evokes the daffiness of classic Chuck Jones cartoons, is no turkey — but it is full of them. High-strung, Thanks­giving-averse Reggie (voiced by a spot-on ...

Two turkeys travel back in time to save their species from Thanksgiving in this well-animated but frankly misguided comedy. Cribbing some narrative loop-de-loops from “The Terminator” and other ...

* Animated comedy PG. 90 minutes. At area theaters. We’ve seen some audacious product placement in movies before: Joe Pesci ordering a Subway sandwich in “Lethal Weapon 2”; Tom Hanks giving AOL stock ...

“Free Birds” is a feathery goof – and I mean that as a compliment. Animated features have become such prestigious, big-ticket items that they’re hardly ever antic. This cartoon is nothing but antic.

“Free Birds” is more proof, as if 2013 needed it, that Hollywood has almost killed the animated goose that laid the golden egg. No matter that in this case, the goose is a turkey. “Free Birds” is more ...

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Finally, there’s a movie vegetarian parents can enjoy with their impressionable offspring. The animated adventure “Free Birds” follows a couple of modern-day turkeys who travel back in time to the ...

You can brine them. You can tuck sage leaves under their skin. You can slather them with butter and roast them on a bed of veggies. Or you can animate turkeys and give them a bunch of wan punch lines, ...

Relativity is ramping up toward the November 1 release of Free Birds, which tells the tale of two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks who team to get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu for good.

Is Hollywood scheming to turn your little ones into strident vegetarians? Could be, but I wish they’d do it with material more inspired than “Free Birds,” a forgettable — and occasionally borderline ...

In one 40-second stretch of the Thanksgiving-themed animated comedy Free Birds, a Pilgrim mother calls a hungry boy “fatty,” a man named Mr. Sardine drops his bowl of tiny fishes on to a pizza and ...

A movie that’s both distinctly American and a bit troubling. Kids' movies, as a genre, are the deepest indicator of what we think is acceptable. They are required to be both totally thematically overt ...