{"id":7026,"date":"2014-04-01T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=7026"},"modified":"2014-04-02T07:57:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:57:58","slug":"review-birdsofparadise-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2014\/04\/review-birdsofparadise-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Birds of Paradise DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Birds of Paradise<\/i><\/b> is an average, down-the-road, direct-to-video flick attempting to take advantage of high profile movies, in this case duplicating Rio<\/i>. As cheap entertainment, it\u2019s OK but the animation isn\u2019t great though the audio\/video transfers are adequate enough and at the one featurette isn\u2019t terrible.<\/p>\n

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Birds of Paradise<\/span>
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REVIEW NAVIGATION<\/strong><\/span>
The Movie<\/a> | Special Features<\/a> | Video Quality<\/a> | Audio Quality<\/a> | Overall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Genre(s): <\/b>Animated, Family, Comedy
Lionsgate | PG \u2013 82 min. \u2013 $26.98 | April 1, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MOVIE INFO:
<\/span>Directed by: <\/b>Daniel de Felippo, Gustavo Giannini
Writer(s): <\/b>Daniel de Felippo (story), Gustavo Menahem, Diego Reinhold, Claudio Andaur, Gustavo Giannini (screenplay)
Voice Cast: <\/b>Drake Bell, Ashley Tisdale, Ken Jeong, Jane Lynch, Jon Lovitz, Keith David<\/p>\n

DISC INFO:
<\/span>Features: <\/b>Featurettes, Bonus Episodes
Number of Discs: <\/b>1<\/p>\n

Audio: <\/b>English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Video: <\/b>Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Subtitles: <\/b>English, Spanish
Region(s): <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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THE MOVIE<\/strong>
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Plot Outline: <\/b>When Jack (DRAKE BELL) \u2014 an ordinary sparrow with dreams of becoming an extraordinary bird \u2014 is accidentally covered in colorful paint, he is thrilled about his new exotic appearance and believes that he’ll now be able to impress Aurora (ASHLEY TISDALE), a beautiful canary who has recently escaped from her indoor cage. But when Aurora’s mean owner, Mr. Potter, finds her, Jack must enlist the help of his best friends \u2014 Vinnie (KEN JEONG), the loyal pigeon, and Skeeter (JON LOVITZ), the hyper hummingbird \u2014 as well as Rosie (JANE LYNCH) the caring bat and the wise Old Buzzard (KEITH DAVID) in order to free her. And along the way, Jack and Aurora will learn that it’s not what you look like on the outside but who you are on the inside that truly counts.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 1.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This comes with a glossy and embossed slip cover<\/b>. Inside is an activation code for the Digital Copy<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n

Brining the Characters to Life (13:55)<\/span><\/b> is a behind-the-scenes featurette showing the voice cast introducing themselves and footage of them recording their lines.<\/p>\n

Minuscule Bonus Episodes<\/span><\/b> are four shorts integrating (poor) CGI elements with real footage.<\/p>\n

Trailer (2:32)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

Previews<\/b> \u2013 Wings<\/i>, Alpha and Omega 3: The Great Wolf Games<\/i>, Snowflake: The White Gorilla<\/i><\/p>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 4.0\/5 | AUDIO \u2013 4.25\/5
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Birds of Paradise<\/i><\/b> is presented with a 16×9 enhanced widescreen transfer and is a bright looking movie with pretty colors throughout.<\/p>\n

The movie comes with a standard Dolby Digital 5.1 track showcasing the score as well as the voice cast.
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OVERALL \u2013 2.25\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall, Birds of Paradise<\/i><\/b> is an average, down-the-road, direct-to-video flick attempting to take advantage of high profile movies, in this case duplicating Rio<\/i>. As cheap entertainment, it\u2019s OK but the animation isn\u2019t great though the audio\/video transfers are adequate enough and at the one featurette isn\u2019t terrible.<\/p>\n

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Published: <\/b>04\/01\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Birds of Paradise is an average, down-the-road, direct-to-video flick attempting to take advantage of high profile movies, in this case duplicating Rio. As cheap entertainment, it\u2019s OK but the animation isn\u2019t great though the audio\/video transfers are adequate enough and at the one featurette isn\u2019t terrible.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,970,2449],"tags":[795,2799,2800,458,2399,424,1186],"class_list":["post-7026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd-reviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","category-side-b","tag-ashley-tisdale","tag-birds-of-paradise","tag-drake-bell","tag-jane-lynch","tag-jon-lovitz","tag-keith-david","tag-ken-jeong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7026\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}