Josh Gad Calls ‘Angry Birds’ Film “Unexpectedly Smart” & "Gorgeous"

Angry Birds first started as quick time waster for anybody who could get their hands on a mobile device. It eventually became wildly successful and all kids under the age of 13 with an Android or Apple device became addicted to it. Now it looks like the popular franchise is moving forward in another direction because by next year we'll be seeing an Angry Birds animated movie. Before you set your expectations low it's important to note that one of the film's stars, Josh Gad, is calling it "unexpectedly smart."

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Gad made the revelation to IGN:

"And in fact, when I was approached about it, I actually said no, for many reasons, the most significant of which was I did Olaf and I don't want to play another animated character, especially right now. The producer was like, 'Just let me kind of pitch out this movie to you' and did this reel for me of what he was thinking about, and it was this 30-minute visual pitch and it blew my socks off," Gad admitted.

"It's really irreverent, and like that LEGO Movie sensibility it's subversive and funny and unexpectedly smart and really beautiful. Actually gorgeous. The little I've seen of it has really impressed me."

That's a wrap! Will miss the cast of #beautyandthebeast especially my brilliant Gaston #LukeEvans A photo posted by Josh Gad (@joshgad) on Jul 29, 2015 at 2:16am PDT

The Angry Birds movie will be released this year and will have a star-studded cast, including Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Peter Dinklage, Keegan-Michael Key, Hannibal Buress and Tony Hale.

Right now we don't know what the movie will be about but we'll have to take Gad's word on the movie being "smart."