Free Birds

In the present day, a turkey named Reggie, who lives on a free-range farm, always worries about Thanksgiving because turkeys are the main dish, and his attempts to warn his ignorant flock have made him an outcast. When the President of the United States arrives at the farm for the National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation, which the flock mistakes for the farmer taking them all to kill, they throw Reggie outside of the coop in order to save themselves. The president’s daughter finds him and decides that he should be dubbed the pardoned turkey, going as far as to pretend to cry in order to get the press to agree with her. When Reggie is taken to Camp David, he eases into a life of pizza and watching Spanish telenovelas. One night, however, he is abducted by a turkey named Jake who claims to have been instructed by a being called the “Great Turkey" with the “Sacred Time Knob” to take Reggie and go back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu. They steal a time machine controlled by an AI called S.T.E.V.E. (Space Time Exploration Vehicle Envoy) from a government facility and time-travel to three days before the first Thanksgiving in 1621. When they arrive, they are ambushed by Pilgrims but rescued by a flock of turkeys who are led by Broadbeak. The flock used to live in trees but were forced to move underground when the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth. Broadbeak assigns Reggie and his daughter Jenny to spring the Pilgrims’ turkey traps while Jake and her brother Ranger spy on the Pilgrims. Jake and Ranger discover that the Pilgrims setting up preparations for Thanksgiving with their weapons shack. Meanwhile, Jenny doesn’t believe Reggie is actually from the future, although is impressed with his accidental way of springing traps. They are intercepted by Myles Standish but Reggie sends Jenny into orbit aboard S.T.E.V.E., validating his story. He suggests going to the future with him but she refuses to leave the flock. Jake tells Reggie about his backstory and assigned mission. Growing up inside a factory farm, every member of his family fattened up on formula as chicks, except for him, because his mother kept him hidden from worker scientists. One night, she tasked him with escaping with a clutch of eggs in order to start his own flock. He managed to escape, but the eggs were taken by the scientists. Shortly afterward, the Great Turkey appeared and gave him his mission. Jake believes that stopping turkeys from becoming Thanksgiving dinners will make up for his failure to his family. Reggie reluctantly goes along with Jake's plan to attack the Pilgrims. They destroy the weapons shack and rescue Ranger's friends who didn’t escape, Amos and Furley. However, Jake accidentally leaves a trail of gunpowder to the flock's home with a stolen powder horn from Standish. The Pilgrims capture enough of the flock for Thanksgiving and Broadbeak sacrifices his life to help the remaining turkeys escape. Feeling that he has let the flock down, Reggie returns to the present, where he discovers from S.T.E.V.E. and two alternate versions of himself that he is the Great Turkey. Reggie time-travels to the night that Jake let down his family in order to send him on his mission with a golden doorknob from Camp David to dub the Sacred Time Knob. Jenny becomes the new leader of the flock and orders the remaining turkeys to prepare an attack on Plymouth Colony. Jake, Jenny and Ranger lead the attack on Plymouth Colony just as the Wampanoags arrive. Reggie returns to 1621 to stop the attack, inadvertently trapping Standish in the time stream. Through S.T.E.V.E. and a pizza delivery man, Reggie convinces the Pilgrims and Wampanoags that pizza is a better Thanksgiving food than turkeys, excluding their kind from the tradition. He decides to stay in 1621 while Jake and S.T.E.V.E. look for new adventures. In a mid-credits scene, Jake returns with S.T.E.V.E to Reggie and Jenny just two seconds after his departure holding a duck and a chicken, inquiring about the existence of a turducken. ==Voice cast==