Top Ten Bird Movies

Nothing is better than seeing the big screen flicker to life, the smell of butter flavored popcorn and someone yelling "SSSsshhhhhhhh!" in a movie theater. Okay so that's not the perfect way to watch a movie but luckily for you, all of these movies are available on DVD. So pickup a couple of these movies at your local movie rental, pop yourself some popcorn, relax in your favorite chair, and enjoy.

So without further ado, here are Kibibi's top ten favorite movies featuring birds or parrots in a major role.

1. Happy Feet (2006 USD Gross $198,000,317)¹ - This is the story of a little penguin named Mumble who has a terrible singing voice and later discovers he has no Heartsong. However, Mumble has an astute talent for something that none of the penguins had ever seen before: tap dancing. Though Mumble's mom, Norma Jean, thinks .... read more at IMDB ....
2. Chicken Little (2005 USD Gross $135,386,665)¹ - After Chicken Little causes widespread panic--when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky--the young chicken is determined to restore his reputation. But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of .... read more at IMDB ....
3. Chicken Run (2000 USD Gross $106,793,915)¹ - Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape .... read more at IMDB ....
4. La Marche de l'empereur (March of the Penguins) (2005 USD Gross $77,437,223)¹ - Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto .... read more at IMDB ....
5. Surf's Up (2007 USD Gross $58,867,694)¹ - This story follows a teenage rock hopper penguin named Cody Maverick from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, where all of the other penguins think he's nothing but a surfing fool, to the "Big Z Memorial Surf Off" on Pen Gu Island. Young Cody is determined to win the most .... read more at IMDB ....
6. Paulie (1998 USD Gross $27,084,499)¹ - Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulie's story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. .... read more at IMDB ....
7. Fly Away Home (1996 USD Gross $24,545,333)¹ - Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed in an auto wreck in New Zealand. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life...that is until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when .... read more at IMDB ....
8. Ladyhawke (1985 USD Gross $18,400,000)¹ - Philipe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop's men for two years, ever since he escaped with the Lady Isabeau who the Bishop has lusted after. .... read more at IMDB ....
9. DuckTales: The Movie - Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990 USD Gross $18,075,331)¹ - Scrooge McDuck, his dimwitted pilot Launch Pad, and his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, with Webby, arrive in Egypt where Scrooge finds the lost treasure of Collie Baba, unbeknownst to Scrooge, a magic lamp was included inside the treasure, so while the nephews have fun with .... read more at IMDB ....
10. The Swan Princess (1994 USD Gross $9,771,658)¹ - As children, Prince Derek and Princess Odette are forced to spend their summers together by their widowed parents, who hope that the two will eventually fall in love and marry, so that the kingdoms of the two will be united. As children and adolescents, Derek and Odette can't stand each .... read more at IMDB ....

For those of you still wanting more, here are some honorable mentions.

Of course any list about bird movies wouldn't be complete without the most famous of them all. Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963) only grossed $5,385,000¹ in the US but was voted the 7th Scariest Movie of all time by a poll carried out on the British public by Channel 5 and The Times in 2006. The movie was based on Daphne Du Maurier's story, "The Birds".

For those of you looking for a dose of documentary reality, there have been a couple less popular documentaries worth mentioning and certainly worth watching. Le Peuple Migrateur (2001) is a film first released in Belgium and later in the US (USD Gross $10,762,178)¹ and Canada as "Winged Migration". As you might have already guessed, it's a documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents. Another excellent documentary is The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003). This is a documentary (USD Gross $3,058,527)¹ about a flock of cherry-headed conures in San Francisco. You can get more up to date information on their web site The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.

There are of course a LOT of other movies that have birds and parrots in minor roles. Here are just three examples that you may remember.

• Dumbo (1941)¹ - Where would Dumbo be without the crows and especially Jim Crow? Without the Jim Crow and the "magical feather" Dumbo would never have had the confidence to fly. And let's face it, if Dumbo couldn't fly then we wouldn't be talking about him now would we?
• Scary Movie 2 (2001)¹ - The "Little Bird" character is not one for the kiddies. A large part of the MPAA 'R' Rating for graphic language can be attributed to "Little Bird". But some of you (and me) with a less than sophisticated sense of humor would find it to be humorous.
• Dumb & Dumber (1994)¹ - There were two small bit-part roles for birds in this movie. Unfortunately they were both killed! First it was Petey the parakeet who was killed by Joe 'Mental' Mentalino and later passed off as a live bird to a blind kid. And then there was the rare Icelandic Snow Owl at the Preservation party that Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) accidentally kills with the cork of a bottle.

NOTE: 1 - USD Gross Sales data from The-Numbers as of August 2008

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