Reggie has been trying to tell them that Thanksgiving means carnage, but no one listens. Just as they begin to get the picture, ... But Free Birds is pleasant enough holiday fare.

Finally, there’s a movie vegetarian parents can enjoy with their impressionable offspring. The animated adventure “Free Birds” follows a couple of modern-day turkeys who travel back in time ...

, Reggie meets Jake (Woody Harrelson, phoning it in) and becomes involved in the President's time-travel project. Jake was visited by the so-called Great Turkey (which turns out to be a rather ...

AF-0013 REGGIE (Owen Wilson, left) and JAKE (Woody Harrelson, right) in Relativity Media's "FREE BIRDS.Ó Image Courtesy of Reel FX and Relativity Media ©2013 Turkey's Films, LLC.

And then there’s “Free Birds,” which is sort of like that nondescript casserole your second cousin brings that winds up at the back of the table, barely picked at and mostly ignored.

We meet Reggie (Owen Wilson), who tells us up front that turkeys are stupid birds. But he’s different. He realizes there is a bigger world out there, and that turkeys are meant to be dinner in it.

Free Birds tells the story of Reggie (Owen Wilson), a turkey at a free-range turkey farm somewhere in the unidentified but corn-opulent midwest. He stands out from his fellow turkeys in that he is ...

As Reggie and Jake attempt to motivate the generally pacifist birds to fight for their lives, “Free Birds” plays, at least initially, like a genial mashup of your average grade-school history ...

PHOTOS: Fall movie sneaks 2013. Wilson is dependably anxious and engaging as Reggie, a free-range bird whose IQ is off the turkey meter. Understanding what’s in store for his corn-fattened flock ...

Entertainment ‘Free Birds’: A Thanksgiving Turkey, Neither Rare Nor Well-Done ...

There is nothing obscene, destructive, or harmful about Free Birds - it’s just not a very good movie. Take the kids, enjoy what you can about it, and leave knowing that it won’t take long ...

Free Birds has flown onto Blu-ray, but it will make for better viewing around Thanksgiving. Blu-ray + 4K. 4K Ultra HD; Blu-ray Reviews; ... Reggie is the prototypical unlikely, ...