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Great animation movie!
Old fashioned entertainment, superbly crafted by the Lord & Park duo.
I liked it even a bit more than their great "Wallace and Gromit" series.
The voices are extraordinarily cast, the story never looses rhythm and
music shows how much they love cinema. There are MANY "movies for
children which also cater for adults". Probably too many. This one is
my favourite, and I like the genre without being an absolute fan.

You may not know "the great escape" and all the other films they quote,
but you do "get the picture", and quite a few laughs. It has a couple
of great chase sequences, and the villain being a grim and masculine
woman adds a different flavour.

My favourite character is "Ginger the instigator chicken". What a great
leader and motivator she is! This movie could be used for Management courses :). When I saw this film the first time, I thought
it was TERRIFIC. The "Britons vs Yanks" tension, dialects (Scottish!), etc. Now, right after the 2nd time, and about 5 years
later, I saw it with joy but not amazed. I don't think I'd buy it,
better stick to "Ice age" if I had to choose one "film for children"
for a potential "desert island" situation.

As usual, there are many levels of analysis. You could make parallels
with Nazi films, industrial society in which we're all "caged" even
race and gender relationships. Jana L. Perskie "ceruleana" (New York,
NY USA) from Amazon is great when she writes on the meaning of freedom
and how "films for children" do have a meaning for us, world-weary
adults. I just won't get into that this time for I rather leave this
fun film unanalyzed. For some reason I feel like Distant Voyageur
"Nicholas Computer" (Io) from Amazon at that.

While not entirely "moving", you'll eat chicken with a tinge of remorse
next time :).

Marvelous chickens
Chicken and English accents - what a great combination! This is a wonderful, fun and entertaining movie that keeps even the most "mature" adult giggling with delight. The story is simple and the ending obvious, but who cares when the dialogs and the humor are so wonderful. The animation is striking with the chicken and human characters made out of clay, while some of the nature scenes seem truly realistic. And who would have thoughts that chickens can have such cute and interesting personalities. There is the heroic chicken, the fearful chicken, the nerdy chicken, the dumb chicken and two very amusing roosters. It is truly enjoyable to see the chickens argue about Americans vs British, working hard to lay eggs and meet their work quota, dancing the night away and searching for their own communal piece of chicken heaven. Many of the themes are taken from "classic" escape movies, such as the spirit to escape together and leave no one behind, the various attempts to do so, the planning, the great idea, the nerve-wrecking escape that almost does not seem to work and finally the enjoyment of having worked together to find chicken freedom at a bird sanctuary. (I hope I did not give away too much, but this movie is truly about dialogs and adapted scenes.)

I would caution that adults watch this movie together with their children, as there are a couple scenes referencing death and the fear of death. One chicken is killed and later seen as bones on the dinner tables. The other scary part is a chicken pie machine that looks like a big living monster and creates all sorts of noises, has fire chambers and levers that seem to be over-sized and impossible to escape for any chicken that is stuck in it. This is definitely a child friendly movie, but adults may want to speak about some of the scenes with their children. If you are not on your feet yet, I urge you to "run" and get this "chicken" flick.

this movie rocks!
Do not listen to the people who wrote the 1 star, 2 star, or 3 star. i do not know why they do not like Chicken Run, but something is wrong with them. I can 99.9% guaruntee you that you should buy this. and if you are one of the people that wrote those 1 2 3 star ones, you are coo-koo and you have no taste for movies. so go watch stupid movies!

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