http://forum.gmx.com - Forgiving for the moment that most of the jokes in Free Birds are not terribly funny the ugly context in which the film tries to force itself is too drawn out and unmistakable to make this movie anything but unpleasant. Theres an amusing concept here one that might work in a half hour holiday special where theres not enough time to explore the melancholy metaphor that is technically being presented but in Free Birds its hard to get over the fact that this is actually a terrible tragedy being made fun of by film makers who either think its fundamentally ridiculous or have no idea how to take it seriously and entertain at the same time so they decided to pepper the vileness with constant insultingly lowbrow humor in order to mask a potentially potent albeit hardly kid friendly allegory for Manifest Destiny.