Birds like us- How did this movie managed to afford award winning actors?
Birds like us is an animated film from Lion’s Gate that looks like a straight to DVD animated Mockbuster. It has an all-star cast of actors! It stars Jeremy Irons, Khalid Abdalla, Jim Broadbent and Alicia Vikander:. I have nothing against low-budget animated films because I enjoyed a lot of them but this one is from a mainstream movie studio.
Why do they have PS2 rendered graphics cutscenes as animation? Something is unsettling with the way these birds look. They should have compensated for the lack of budget with cute characters. Lion’s gate could have tried polishing the character models just like how old videogames got remastered in HD. I can see Youtube influencer Saberspark giving this a chance because he likes low-budget animations.
I made some research about this film. This is Bosnia’s first full-length animated movie but it is from 2017. It is a labor of love directed by Faruk Šabanović and Amela Ćuhara.
So I will give this a chance if the story and the acting can compensate with the Ps2 graphics. We have award-winning actors voicing this movie. There must be something special with its script that manages to make big-name actors agree. Also Peter Gabriel makes the musical score of this movie.
So Maybe we should not judge a book by it’s cover. It is actually an adaptation of an ancient Persian Poem, The Conference of the Birds.
Birds like us Trailer
Huppu(Alicia Vikander) the bird has one dream. She wanted to hatch her very own egg but she can’t. The vultures ruled the land with an iron fist as they consume the eggs of the other birds. She along with a gang of birds will go through a journey to achieve their freedom. Birds like us are coming to DVD and on-demand on January 25, 2022.