The elephant in the room: Is it a metaphor for the refugee crisis?

No. More like a microbe in the room.

Instead of relying on what you heard maybe you should see the movie. That way you can make up your own mind about this movie and any metaphors it may contain.



Crazy is building your ark after the flood has already come.

Didn't think of that at all but in retrospect it does run parallel to the immigration crisis in Europe. However though, I don't think they can really tell a story about pigs invading without something similar to that. Unless the pigs just went onto the attack right away.

The elephant in the room: Is it a metaphor for the refugee crisis?

I haven't seen it yet, but from the trailers, the pigs come to the birds' home and make themselves look like good guys when they're not.

That to me seems more like the trope of when the swindlers comes to town. They promise good things, the townsfolk fall for it until it's nearly too late.

The pigs doing the cowboy dance seems like a reference to Europeans taking over North America between 1492-1800. So, I guess there's a whole lot of ways this film's political message can be interpreted. May the loudest promoted view, with the most frothy-mouthed craziest fanbase "win" the "debate".

Yes, they created the game "Angry Birds" as a metaphor representing the peaceful, freedom-loving Christian pig nation and the angry invaders "refugees" (the birds) who destroy and terrorize the pigs (Americans/white people). Then they made a movie about it.

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There are a number of things that do evoke Islam and the USA. The color of the pigs and Islam is green, the head pig has an Islamic beard (under chin). Note that Muslims would hardly like to be represented by pigs. The symbol of the birds is an American eagle, but it's gotten soft and flaccid and taking action is "up to the people". The visitors (from across the waters) also come with and eventually use explosives, and the birds retaliate against the visitors' island.

There are differences, the main one being that technology is associated with the aliens, not the locals, and the pigs' island is more civilized while the birds' is more rustic.

For the record, I found the movie to be long and tedious.

There's no way the producers of the film would be unaware of the parallels. It's quite a mind job to do on children. I've seen a number of feature-length cartoons with my goddaughter and you'd have to be extremely naive to think that they're devoid of propaganda and social engineering.