Review: An app comes to life in "The Angry Birds Movie"

In the most cynical view of what gets made in Hollywood, an addictive app might just be at the bottom of the pile, languishing there in suspicious squalor with movies adapted from board games and amusement park rides.

"The Angry Birds Movie" doesn't quite achieve the relative superiority of "The Lego Movie," but it's definitely not terrible and even surprisingly fun and heartfelt at times.

His bad luck and short temper land him in group therapy for anger management alongside some other volatile types like the manic Chuck (Josh Gad), the dimwitted Bomb (Danny McBride), and the bruiser Terence (whose grunts are supposedly the work of Sean Penn — an even more dubious distinction than Vin Diesel as Groot).

Even typing that sentence feels about as inorganic as the actual plot development, but, "Angry Birds" has to get to a place where the birds are fighting pigs, so why not make it a colonialization parable?

What should be a fun bonus, though, might end up being more of a distraction for some trying to figure out the owner of that vaguely recognizable voice.

The Angry Birds Movie," a Columbia Pictures release, is rated PG by the Motion Picture Association of America for "rude humor and action.