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A lot of fun no matter your age
This is one of the most clever and funniest movies I've seen. For ultimate appreciation, watch the classic, The Great Escape first (which Chicken Run spoofs with great results). Then, put in Chicken Run and marvel and laugh for the next 83 minutes. Chicken Run covers smart and spirited Ginger the Hen's attempt to light a fire -- or avoid having a fire lit --under her chicken coop comrades. The chickens live with the evil Tweedys -- Mr. and Mrs. -- who've done some figuring and decided that eggs bring "miniscule profits," so it's time to start marketing "chicken pie." Only Ginger sees the danger and spurs the other chickens to a coop coup -- to absolutely hilarious effect. The DVD is worth getting -- it's got very interesting features about making the movie, including interesting facts such as the amount of film each animator produced in one day (2 seconds worth). The DVD also has a "panic button" on which you can click to watch only the movies' funniest scenes -- the chickens in their moments of most panicky mayhem. Definitely worth owning and watching more than once.

Great entertainment for both adults and children!
"Chicken Run" is one of those rare movies that definitely appeal to both a younger and a more mature audience. Both children and adults will be mesmerized by the uncannily well modelled plasticine hens and by the hurly-burly action that unfolds in the course of the story, but the grown-ups among us will enjoy other things, too.

First, there are the countless allusions to classic movies, from the gloomy prison camp atmosphere reminiscent of "Stalag 17" to Ginger's rhythmic smashing of a baseball against the wall during solitary confinement - taken from Steve McQueen's character in "The Great Escape" - and to her saving her bonnet in true Indiana Jones style from behind the closing oven door (echoing "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"). Indeed, there probably were so many other allusions I did not spot that I am thinking about going to watch the movie one more time. And then, secondly, there is also the astonishing variety of English accents displayed. Since the movie is set somewhere in the Yorkshire dales, we get introduced to farmer Tweedy's Yorkshire dialect but also to Rocky's John Waynish babbling and to Mac's Scottish staccato that Rocky is not able to understand. Oh, we were just roaring with laughter!

So what can I say? Go and watch this movie! It will be an evening well spent.

An animated masterpiece!
Chicken Run

Score: 97/100

Chicken Run is not only the film that assures that the claymation way of filmmaking will never go out of style, but it puts Nick Park and Peter Lord as one of the top directors of our times, and they've only made 4 films, all which have managed easily to fit into my top 50! That is a pretty remarkable achievement for animated filmmaking.

Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster (Mel Gibson) and Ginger the chicken (Julia Sawahla) decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy (Tony Haygarth and Miranda Richardson), the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom.

Acting wise, the film is excellent, a bunch of voice talents alone make the film worth seeing, Julia Sawalha and Mel Gibson bring their claymation chickens alive, and Lynn Ferguson uses her voicing expression awesomely as geeky chicken Mac. But here it is actually Absolutely Fabulous' Jane Horrock's that steals the show as the hilarious knitty witty chicken Babs, not to mention Miranda Richardson's delightful voice-over performance as an evil character. But it comes as no surprise that the brilliant clay chickens and stunning set-decoration over-take everything else that is excellent about the film, and everything about it is excellent.

An animated masterpiece, Chicken Run is witty, eye-catching and hugely enjoyable. A must-see!

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