For younger viewers, T he Angry Birds Movie 2 has plenty of gaudy colors, zippy pace and goofy slapstick, plus reliably lowbrow gags about toilets and snot.

There are two main target demographics for this kind of movie, of course: kids and parents. This detour into James Bond territory, complete with superb steampunk production design, nudges the Angry Birds cinematic universe closer to established animated franchises like Despicable Me or The Incredibles. This shared threat forces a truce between birds and pigs, with Red and Leonard teaming up to lead an undercover mission to Eagle Island in a bid to thwart Zeta’s scheme.

Ramping up her attacks, Zeta begins bombarding her coveted target islands with giant ice cannonballs fired from a volcano-powered, mountain-size barrel. The action-heavy plot hinges on Zeta’s deadly plan to flee from her deep-frozen exile on wintry Eagle Island and conquer both Bird Island and Pig Island, transforming them into her private sunshine playgrounds. Van Orman and his writers also add a third island to the mix and a new supervillain in the form of Zeta, the Cruella de Vil of the eagle world, a purple-plumed uber-diva voiced with winning sass by Leslie Jones. In a cute piece of Hollywood in-joke casting, the children of Nicole Kidman, Viola Davis and Gal Gadot also have minor speaking roles as the cute hatchling chicks.

The sequel moves fruitfully away from this source material by expanding the story’s narrative bandwidth and character count, drawing on a broad list of starry vocal talents including Peter Dinklage, Maya Rudolph, Danny McBride, Nicki Minaj and Awkwafina. The plot of the first Angry Birds movie at least paid lip service to the original game, with its ballistic battles between the multicolored avian residents of Bird Island, led by short-fuse anti-hero Red ( Jason Sudeikis), and their green-hued porcine enemies on Pig Island, led by boorish Lester ( Bill Hader).

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