Venue: Cinemas HK-wide
Date: 2 June
Enquiries: N/A
Website: angrybirds-movie.com/en/

You’ve played the video game and installed the smart phone app and now its movie incarnation is set to fly east to Hong Kong for the spring. Yes, it’sAngry Birds and this latest manifestation is an American-Finnish 3D computer-animated, action-adventure comedy film, all based around the theme of the original game that proved so addictive all those years ago. The animation comes courtesy of Sony Picture’s Imageworks, while the movie has been ably directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly and, with production duties falling to John Cohen and Catherine Winder.

The action all takes place on an island paradise populated by a colony of happy-go-lucky flightless birds, with the exception of angry Red (Jason Sudeikis), speedy Chuck (Josh Gad) and volatile Bomb (Danny McBride), all of whom suffer from apparent temper issues. When the island is suddenly invaded by a group of mysterious green pigs – led by Leonard (Bill Hader) – these unlikely outcasts come together to investigate what these pesky porkers are really up to. All sorts of shenanigans ensue as these sultry feathered fowl try to check out the porcine peccadillos that have “hambushed” their island paradise.

Venue:Cinemas
Date: : 26 May
Enquiries: N/A
Website:aja.disney.com/

Staying with the topic of troubling tunes likely to take up permanent cranial residence, later this month theJungle Book is returning to Hong Kong. This, however, is not a re-issue of the 1967 Disney classic, but rather a contemporary live action re-imagining, complete with CGI’d jungle critters. It is no doubt proof that, once again, there’s considerable cash to be had by obliging kids to watch fresh renditions of parental favourites.

To be fair, the voice cast is certainly impressive, with Idris Elba proving a suitably tigertastic Shere Khan, while Scarlet Johannson offers a suitably seductive turn as Kaa, the python that looks to hypnotise the impressionable young Mowgli. While most of the songs from the original have sadly been cut, the director at least saw fit to retain the Bear Necessities (sorry) with King Louie, the fire-hungry ape, crooning his desire to be like you-hoo-hoo to Mowgli proving one of the movie’s highlights. As, of course, does Baloo the Bear’s evergreen guide to the good life.