Box office hit 'The Angry Birds Movie': A kid's movie or an ad for the game

"The Angry Birds Movie" is now a major box office hit in its first weekend following its opening day. Now the question is whether or not it should be classified as a movie for children.

"The Angry Birds Movie", the big screen adaptation of the popular mobile game, is a big box office success this weekend following opening day after raking in a gross $39 million in domestic ticket sales alone, according to CNBC. It is also a global box office hit with $112 million earned from foreign ticket sales.

This film was produced by Sony Pictures in partnership with "Angry Birds'" Finnish developer Rovio for the animation works. The movie's production budget is supposed at $73 million. With an overall gross of $ $151 million after its first weekend, the movie's proceeds have already doubled its production costs.

The movie shows how a group of non-flying but happy birds became angry birds as mean green piggies arrive with a big threat to happy living. However, before the "The Angry Birds" gained success in cinemas, the game so they say has been downloaded over and over 3 billion times since it was launched in December 2009.

Meanwhile, an article in News18 has raised the question on whether or not this big box office hit is considered a kid's movie and designed for Gen-Z. As part of the writer's analysis, "The Angry Birds Movie" was compared to equally successful animates movies such as "Inside Out", "Good Dinosaur" and "Zootopia." However, it is being concluded that film adaptation was the "weakest link."

Moving on, the movie is reportedly complete with everything the game has including a back story, not to mention the plot was predictable. Yet it had all the comedy and action that prevented it from becoming tiring towards the end. In addition, the character were all funny and cute in their own right

"The Angry Birds Movie" was said to be entertaining, funny and interesting. At the end, however, it was pointed out that it probably was really meant for the gamers of the mobile app and not by essence a true children's film. As part of the article's conclusion, the movie is reportedly considered an attempt to revive the one-a-massive hit.