Birds attack humans and Hitchcock doesn't care much to explain why.

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2007)

So this is the super-duper masterpiece "classic"... First thing I noticed: Hedren is ugly - unbearably ugly. Then there is an eternity until the birds appear. "Cute" comedy/melodrama shticks of the first half (in which the birds are noticeably absent) interest no one. Pointless dialogues which get us to know the irrelevant characters better. Why? There is a stupid exchange with the cop when he interrupts Taylor with "how old is she (Taylor's sister)?". Why is the sheriff skeptical? Were the birds attacking Taylor & co of all people? Why didn't the sparrows attack when they got in through the chimney; because they're smaller they're less violent?! Come on... Why did Hedren decide to get the children out of the school when the birds gathered outside? Shouldn't it be the most basic of all reasoning to stay inside where it's safer?! There was no previous indication that Hedren's character has an I.Q. lower than 4 - which would be the only sort of intelligence which would explain that daft decision. And why did she react so slowly to the gradual gathering of the birds in the school park?? After all, she'd been attacked two times before that! The gov't is unsure whether to send an army?! Not only that: nothing and no one gets sent to the town in spite of knowledge of bird attacks!! This movie hasn't been thought through at all; the illogic is everywhere. If some unknown director had done this crap, it would never have received nearly as many good reviews as it otherwise did. But just because it's Hitchcock, it doesn't get justly regarded as a dumb horror film about birds. I liked the parrots acting peculiarly in the car, but that's about it.
If you want a truly silly analysis about the "deeper" meanings behind this turd of a film, check out Slavoj Zizek's rants in his documentary "A Pervert's Guide To Cinema".