

But it’s still a pretty major element considering the kid audience this pic is aimed at.) (This is subtly played, without any direct sexual allusions. We also learn that they had a daughter out of wedlock. But Mighty Eagle jilted her at the altar. It turns out that Zeta and the Bird Island hero Mighty Eagle were once engaged. She carried her bitterness and anger for a long time and literally tortured those around her because of it-excusing her selfish behavior as “putting myself first.” But Zeta, too, learns to forgive and let go, and in doing so becomes a better individual and mom. Turns out she was a pretty angry bird herself because she had been heartlessly slighted by someone she loved years before. That lesson applies, in a way, to the ice-island villainess Zeta, too. But with Silver’s help, Red realizes that if he simply focuses on being a bird with a good and caring heart, others will naturally appreciate him.Ī young bird chick is horrified when three unhatched eggs float out to sea, and she says, “I want my unborn sisters back.” He was afraid that no one would like him if he wasn’t the center of attention, that he’d slip back into being seen as the outcast he once was. Eventually the whole crew shares the accolades. And when they all go back to Bird Island and the residents cheer their local hero Red, he chooses to give the credit all to Silver and her engineering smarts.

But they learn to live with each other’s foibles and to rely on each other’s strengths. In fact, Red and Silver make a really great duo, even though they initially kinda hate each other. Together they make a solid team, and they demonstrate to young viewers that even the most polar opposites can learn to work together as they take risks and are willing to make sacrifices to save their islands. Chuck also taps his engineer-minded sister, Silver. Looks like it’s time for these former enemies to work together if they don’t want to end up working as cabana boys for a purple-plumed villainess.Īfter Red and Leonard team up to face their new mutual threat, Red calls in his best buds-super-speedy Chuck and emotionally explosive Bomb-to lend a little manpower to their save-the-day mission.

And she also has a secret volcano-like weapon that can launch gigantic icy projectiles in the direction of Red and Leonard’s nearby islands. She wants somewhere warmer to roost, dontcha know. There’s a strange frozen island on the horizon that’s ruled by a deranged eagle tyrant named Zeta. But it turns out that both bird and bacon now have a bigger mutual threat to worry about. Red immediately assumes it’s nothing more than another ham-fisted trick. One day, though, pudgy pig ruler Leonard calls for a truce. So the pranks and squabbling between the two islands must continue. Meanwhile, the oafish porcine leader, Leonard, has to keep his tough-as-a-hog reputation intact, too. Lobbing big buckets of noxious refuse at each other from beachside slingshots has the tendency to poke a few pork loins and ruffle a few feathers.īut the fact is, the cranky bird-turned-hero, Red, has become something of a Bird Island celebrity because of his pig-pranking and island-protecting ways. The inhabitants of Bird Island and Pig Island aren’t necessarily the best examples of neighborly diplomacy.
