Chicken Run (2000)
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 154
Fresh: 149 | Rotten: 5
Chicken Run has all the charm of Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit, and something for everybody. The voice acting is fabulous, the slapstick is brilliant, and the action sequences are spectacular.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 0
Chicken Run has all the charm of Nick Park's Wallace & Gromit, and something for everybody. The voice acting is fabulous, the slapstick is brilliant, and the action sequences are spectacular.
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Aardman Animations, the British clay-animation studio that created a cult sensation (and won three Academy awards) with its short subjects featuring Wallace and Gromit, presents its first feature film, a mixture of comedy and adventure. Mrs. Tweedy (voice of Miranda Richardson) operates a chicken farm, where most of the birds have resigned themselves to a short and uneventful life of producing eggs and ending up as the main course of someone's Sunday dinner. But when Rocky (voice of Mel Gibson),
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Mel Gibson
Rocky -
Julia Sawalha
Ginger -
Miranda Richardson
Mrs. Tweedy -
Jane Horrocks
Babs -
Lynn Ferguson
Mac -
Imelda Staunton
Bunty -
Benjamin Whitrow
Fowler -
Anthony Haygarth
Mr. Tweedy -
Timothy Spall
Nick -
Phil Daniels
Fetcher -
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All Critics (155) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (149) | Rotten (5) | DVD (32)
This first feature by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the team that brought you Wallace and Gromit, is a diabolically witty piece of work, a haymaker.
Top CriticApart from looking like no other type of animated film, Chicken Run stands alone in its unwavering determination not to play down to the kiddies.
It is not only an amazing technical accomplishment, it's also the wittiest and best-voiced animated movie to come along in years.
Chicken Run boasts the most delicious collection of desperately funny Brits since The Full Monty. Poultry has never been so stuffed with personality.
The finale and a scene set inside the pie-making machinery prove that the Rube Goldberg formula is infallible, and the puns -- another staple of crossover animation -- range from "fowl" to "poultry in motion."
Exactly the picker-upper this macho-movie summer needs.
It's nothing less than a stop-motion tour de force, bursting with charm, humor, invention and eye-popping mise en scene.
With its winking homages to films like Stalag 17 and The Great Escape, Run is visually inventive, its characters plump with personality and, for a bunch of chickens, ever so brave.
This wonderful visual treat is done in stop-action clay animation, a form which is both substantial and magical. It's as if the clay figures kids make have managed to take on a life of their own.
Most of the laughs stem from the peculiar appeal of claymation -- something about a raised eyebrow or other subtle bit of expression just seems funnier at the stop-motion speed of claymation.
Chicken Run isn't just chock-full of references to classic prison-break movies and some witty inside Hollywood jokes, but is filled with a secret ingredient sadly missing from its super-digitized, merchandise-driven counterparts: heart.
Chicken Run, Aardman's first full-length animated feature, finally makes good on the promise of the studio's award-winning shorts.
This feathered pastiche of PoW classics such as The Great Escape and Stalag 17 is an awesome achievement by consummate film-makers.
There are some mighty fine laughs in this clever Claymation cartoon from the creator of England's hilarious Wallace and Gromit movies.
The level of invention on display, from the vividly detailed models and figurines to the gallery of memorable supporting characters, is astonishing at any length.
Fab animation from Wallace and Gromit creator.
"Chicken Run's" finale is on par both with "The Great Escape" and the classic Wallace and Gromit ending to "A Close Shave" for rousing excitement and ingenuity. When it comes to clever and fun entertainment with a twist, it's the cock of the walk.
The sophisticated humor of Peter Lord and Nick Park's very funny comedy is more likely to strike a nerve with adults.
The fact that this movie is animated entirely with clay ruined the enjoyment for me while watching this.
Thoroughly endearing family entertainment.
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- Bunty: The chances of us getting out of here are a million to one.
- Ginger: Then there's still a chance.
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- Mr. Tweedy: I told you they were organised.
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- Rocky: Freedom!
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- Rocky: Ducky, i think you flew four feet today!
- Nick: Oh right four feet..from the roof to the ground! *he and Fetcher laugh*
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- Babs: We'll make posters...
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- Nick: It makes you look like a vision, a dream..
- Fetcher: Like a duck!
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