Migration was a FAILURE...at first 

I’m glad this movie managed to find its footing after a while. It was very nice to see Illumination do something original for once. Really good movie!

Illumination finally making movies other than the Minions is a breath of fresh air.

Universal: "Look.....we do like *safe* movies, but..........this might be....too safe you know?"

This movie actually wasn't that bad! The dynamics between the family is really entertaining lol

Migration is actually a really good film, and feels different to what Illumination have done prior. Props to Benjamin Renner for instilling a unique identity into an animated film.

I like ducks, I like animation, I like this movie. This was a win in my book, and I hope they don't give up on original stories like this.

It's New York City baby! We have ninjas turtles, pizza rats, gangsters seagulls shoplifting - a duck walking through a dance floor is just another Tuesday 😂

This is a perfect example of a simple and generic film being good. You don’t need constant originality and complex writing to make an enjoyable movie, and since that’s one of the most important things for movies to achieve, it shows that this is a good movie. Gorgeous visuals, fun characters and a genuinely charming sense of humor, it’s a great movie to just sit back and have a good time in the movie theatre. Hope we see more films like this in the future, to help balance out with the golden masterpieces like the spiderverse franchise and the recent puss in boots the last wish.

I KNEW IT. PEOPLE CALLED ME CRAZY WHEN I SAID IT'D BE DECENT.

I think what made it bad was that it was released on Christmas weekend, when everyone was with their families

Me & friend went to see this film because Godzilla Minus One was out of our local theaters, & for what it is it's actually quite good. I think animated films like Spiderverse & Puss in Boots really spoiled us making us forget not every film has to be a grand epic full of deep & emotionally torn characters. It's okay just to be a simple fun family movie.

16:08 Mac was trying to prove that he isn’t a scaredy-cat by rushing into adventure despite the resistance from his family.

The advertising for this movie was painful

These uploads are so fast now! Excited to watch EVERY ONE

One of the best of Illumination. Not a big Surprise.

the thing with mack checking the cellar out makes actually sense when you think about his character as a whole. He started off as someone who refused change and slowly starts to build this sense for adventure, especially building up his courage at the chef's place. He clearly felt good with everyone thanking him and thinking him as a hero. So ig with a inflated ego and a new found sense of bravery he went in. It's a cool character arc and quite obvious if I can say so myself... And macks whole character arc ends with him reminding erm... I forgor her name, but his wife that whatever is happening there is still light at the end of the tunnel. It's quite cheesy, yes, but it's enough for a good family movie and the topic of migration is not gate kept by only ducks and thus many humans can also relate.

One of the reasons why the movie is better that the rest of Illumination's package is definetly thanks to Benjamin Renner's influence as a director. He also made Ernest and Celestine and Big Bad Fox and Other Tales. (My Review ) With that said I couldn't help but to compare some scenes to Rio with how similiar they were like the escape from the plane at the climax and the dance sequence. I would not be suprised if they "inspired" by it. Sometimes it was a bit repetitive with how the main characters met other ones while having wacky hijinxs with together and I do kinda wish we could get little bit of explanation as to why Mac was so worried to leave the pod. There was deleted scene where Mac as a duckling left his family and flew beyond the pod only for him to get attacked by predators. If I would give positives its that the animation is beautiful while staying true to Renner's artstyle. The soundtrack by John Powell is great and the characters are very charming and fun. I especially enjoyed the dynamic between Mac and Pam and how much of a sweet couple they were. It was a complete 180 compared to Super Mario Bros in many details. While I don't find the movie to be as good as everyone else I had a fun time watching it and I would recomend it if want something simple yet charming.

Something original I again never heard of again? Ugh. I will genuinely give almost any original movie a shot. Thanks for talking about it!

Imagine how good Wish would have looked like if it had the drawing style of the first scene of Migration

Oh my god I like this kind of upload time no more waiting 2 months or 1 months for a single video now we can wait 1 week or 2 week for a video haha this is fantastic

Seeing you rank the duck movie itself truly made my day and honestly I have to agree with you Migration is just simply a fun movie to watch and it made my 5 year old bird lover me explode with joy when I first the news about that movie because back when I was just a child I used to absolutely *FUCKING LOVE BIRDS!!!* I used to adore them back then because they were just cool creatures and I used to be invested on almost every single species of them and when I saw this movie with my mom it made me a bit nostalgic for a moment because not only because it kinda reminded me of Rio a little and it’s also a movie I absolutely adored too but also because it reminded me of simpler times on back when life used to be so much simpler and that is something I really need for a long time and yes this movie along with the Mario movie and The Spider Verse movie are probably the 3 most anticipated movies I wanted to see this year and they’re all amazing so yeah Migration a good and fun movie for me and that’s ironic for someone where’s the channel OC is a literal duck saying this but yeah great movie highly check it out if you want something to make your day😊

I genuinely forgot this movie existed.

I also liked how in this movie humans don't actually talk. They grunt as if they're saying something, but nothing is actually said. I just thought that was cool since this movie is in the perspective of birds who wouldn't understand non-bird animals.

🐣Whats Duck l’orange 🐦: its you, with l’orange on top I know its corny but that was the best joke in the entire movie for me😂

People complain about chris pratt taking too many roles in kid movies (even though he only had three emmet, Garfield and mario), awkwafina is in every kid movie (little mermaid, raya, migration, bad guys, angry birds, kung fu freakin panda. Some dont even fit, raya, the bird from little mermaid. Im just saying

I literally thought the opening logos were the ending logos to Mooned for some reason... I mean they played seconds after each other.

I love the detail that only the birds talk while the chef (and all of the other humans) never talk once, mirroring real life of course.

I was and still am very surprised by Migration. This is probably the least Illumination feeling movie out of all their movies. Also as you mentioned it has great animation and cinematography which feels weird because I can’t really remember a time when Illumination would attempt this. I feel one of the best things you didn’t point out about this movie is the score. Holy moly this score is fantastic. John Powell has to be one of my favorite composers and like always he definitely brought his A game. To me this is now my favorite Illumination movie. This manages to take all the fun of Mario with some of the heart like Despicable Me and it just ended up being a blast to watch. It is surprising that of all the studios that released more than one movie Illumination was the studio to be the most consistent. Yeah they most likely will still make a bunch of sequels but with this feeling like Illumination is stepping up their quality I might be giving them more hope than usual. Migration for me is an 8/10.

I really like the dynamic between the two child birds it was really cute :)

Tbh, I only watched the movie bc the dad duck had the same VA as Prismo… from Adventure Time.

httyd style flying scenes + john powell score??? illumination cooked here

That opening skit is better than everything Disney has put out in the last 2-3 years.

The ending really do be giving Rio vibes

woah illumination made something that ISNT minions related?

Earlier today I was wondering when this was going to be released.

The "pitch meetings" in the start are just perfect 🤣

a nice detail i like abt the movie is the missing foot on the chump, pigeon usually get their feet stuck in hair or something in the city they'll usually peck it until it lost its nerves in the foot making it useless

she duo on my lingo

This a good movie, but it dose have some issues that are kinda similar to Despicable me 3. They do have a strong story in the center, but all the side characters weaken the story a little bit.

I watched this movie in theaters, I had zero expectations yet it was INCREDIBLE. I highly recommend you watch this movie, it genuinely feels like a family movie (like jokes for all ages) rather than (just) brain rot for iPad addicted toddlers.

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As always, the opening skit's hilarious. Not looking forward to hearing Awkwafina in Kung Fu Panda 4, as Zhen.

I haven’t seen this movie, but have heard of it, might check it out at some point.

I was expecting a Duck Hunt movie, but I guess this is the best we could hope for.

Saw it in 3d. Thought it was worth doing at least once. Flying scenes work really well for it

My girls wanted to see this in theaters so bad and I agreed to just have some fun with them. I wasn’t expecting much from it, just thought it was going to be a silly kids movie. But I surprisingly enjoyed it more than I thought I would lol

This movie surprised me by being like a 2007 Alpha and Omega/Open Season type movie yet in 2023. I just remember the weird Shark Tank promo feeling so awkward and forced.

Omg watching you get more views over time is amazing ❤

Once I found out that Despicable Me four was coming, I knew it was all over

In defense of the mallards not flying out on the dance floor....it's extremely crowded and flying out could cause a mess and give away their location.

It pulled an Elemental. Damn, two comebacks by different companies in one year. And both originals.

Surprised you didn't mention who directed it. The same guy who did Ernest and Celestine worked on this visual gem.

I saw the title of the video and immediately imagined vsauce talking

Am I crazy or is this just the plot of Rio 2?

I really loved migration :)

watched this with my family after not going to the movies for a while. we chose migration and honestly it was a pretty cute movie! i came out liking it more than i thought i would!!

Anyone thought of rio?

16:22 in his defence I would probably do the same

i was expecting the selling point to universal in the opening skit to be "we can get awkwafina in it"

The thing why I love watching your every video - the conversations of the film industries. Anyway the movie was good. It was surely a film for families and kids mostly, but it wasn't a bad animated movie. Also the animation was really pretty and I liked its characters. It wasn't a pixar movie or studio ghibli movie suuree, but it was nice for Illumination.

Awkwafina is now a character in the Beanie Brian cinematic universe

I think migration is the top five illumination movies but it ain’t saying much but it’s a great family movie 6/1

Okay, get this mf to 100k, it's been too long ✊

I thought beaniie was gone. I adore his intro for every movie he reviews.

Imagine if Beanie made a rundown on Trolls Band Together and starts to compare this to Disney's Wish since both movies are released on the same month?

I just assumed Ducks need some sort of "running start" in order to fly, or go in any diagonal motion, like they can't fly up and down easily. But how would I know.

squarespace has got this man into having a consistent upload schedule, i'm clicking that link 😂

I love the humor in this review.

Migration pulled an Elemental for Illumination!

I went to see this movie with friend and end up enjoying it.

why do ppl hate on illumination? i really like them, especially this movie

I genuinely enjoyed this movie

It Made My Day Even better

They got John Powell, from How To Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda, in this movie to compose the score 😮

Finally a good original movie

This is one of the really good illumination movie

*MAJOR* Rio vibes

We don’t even have wild macaws here in Jamaica 💀💀💀

We are the beans and we will rule all nothing can stop our ever growing might.

My you saw they took a long time to fly and in a crownd they wont be able to get the time.

I really liked the movie after I got pasted the protective dad troupe

Honestly, it was a funny movie and I liked it. Would watch it again

Side characters, keep coming and going, and the ones that they are pretty worthless and don’t add much the store as a whole.

Good vid beanii

they were able to animate the flying so well because 60% of illumination staff are actually ducks

The children yearn for Rio

The only time Illumination make a good Movie without Nintendo menacing to make a good Movie

Migration might be the best illumination movie, simply because the story wasn’t rushed, the movie was funny, and the funny was visually amazing. All other illumination movies only accomplish 2/3, for me, this one accomplished 3/3 requirements 😳✨✨💅

I saw this trailer at the theatre and I SWEAR I've seen this movie before, like this movie already existed from another studio with a bunch of the same jokes as the trailer... but like when I was younger. Like it's gotta be 10 years old AT LEAST but I haven't seen anyone else talking about it but I remember this movie already existing so clearly UPDATE: WATCH THE TRAILER TO YELLOWBIRD AND THEN RE-WATCH THE TRAILER TO MIGRATION

I’m confused how Dax I think that’s his name but he just attached feathers to his wings like how they don’t have hands

This is from the director of Ernest and Celestine.

If it’s not with minions in it, I agree

This was a good movie. It’s not the best as I can see its faults but seeing it is an original concept, something that isn’t done as much and it to me, is funny, it was good.

Now this will get milked so hard

I don't why but this movie reminds of Rio

16:34 why does the swan leader look like a hazbin hotel character with that rizz race

I refuse to believe that Illumination made this

Did anyone else notice that the plot of Migration is pretty similar to The Croods

14:40 don't think that's how duck flying works

My mom really wants to see the movie but she doesn't want to drive too far and all the theaters are miles away from our house.