"The Birds Is Coming".

Rating: 10/10 (31 July 2003)

*Possible Spoilers* I have watched this movie many times now, and it seems to get better with each viewing. Admittedly, the FX now look very dated in this age of "Star Wars" and "The Lord Of The Rings" - but don´t the FX in "Superman" also look dated now?. All very well if the film were dependant on FX alone, but "The Birds" appears to operate on a much-more complicated level. It´s a movie "about" so many different things - it almost appears to be "about" whatever the viewer wants it to be "about". And just who are "The Birds" anyway?. To fend off unexplained attacks by our feathered friends, the main characters have to barricade themselves into their house, which almost literally becomes their cage. Caged in like lovebirds, in fact. Well, virtually. As for the celebrated attack by the birds on Tippi Hendron as she investigated noises in an upstairs bedroom. Was Tippi mad or what?. She had "seen" what these unusual birds could do, yet she chose to investigate rustlings that could only emenate from one source. Undaunted, she steps into the room with her flashlight - which attracts the attention of the birds. She is lucky she didn´t end up as dead as a dodo.