Chicken Run

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Summary: DA BOMB
Review: THE MOVIE CHICKEN RUN IS ABOUT A GROUP OF CHICKENS PLOTING TO ESCAPE A FARM BEFORE THEY ARE TURNED INTO PIES. AFTER ROCKY A COCKY AMERICAN ROOSTER CRASH-LANDS ON THE FARM ALL THE CHICKENS WANT HIM TO TEACH THEM HOW TO FLY. ALL ATTEMPTS GO FOWL. SO ROCKY THINKS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE, FALLING IN LOVE WITH A YOUNG BRITISH HEN NAMED GINGER. SHE KNOWS ROCKY IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.AFTER ROCKY SAVES GINGER FROM THE PIE MACHINE EVERYTHING GOES DOWN HILL FROM THEIR. WELL I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE WHOLEE MOVIE AWAY SO GO OUT AND CHICKEN RUN.

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Summary: Serve Rice or Something After Watching!
Review: I loved this video, but I had trouble getting my nephew to eat chicken afterwards. He lives on a ranch where the chicken is home-grown and cooked fresh. :) So butcher the chicken first, wait a couple days, THEN watch the film. It puts a lot of others to shame with its high-quality storyline, humor and animation. I fully recommend it; it's one of the best 'toons I've seen in years. Thank you, producers!

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Summary: I'll never eat chicken pie as long as I live.....
Review: "Chicken Run" is one of the cutest movies I've seen in quite a while! Sure, it follows the "formula" set forth by Hollywood for dramas and action films, but it has a wonderful storyline and very likeable characters that you just can't help falling in love with. The two rats are hysterical as the comic relief and the Tweedy's are wonderful villians! All around a great movie that makes you want to never eat another chicken pie again. I love this film, and I think you will too!

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Summary: Not just for kids !
Review: I first watched this movie with my 4 years nephew, ever since I saw it several times and enjoyed it even more. The animation is great, and the screenplay is very clever. I find it very hard not to sympathize the chickens.

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Summary: One of the best kids movies
Review: G-rated flicks are usually a BIG disappointment, but being an avid movie fan and a fan of DreamWorks, I decided to check this one out. I was glad I did. It's an acheivement in kids filmmaking.

Ginger (voiced by Julia Sawalha) is trapped on the Tweedy's farm, with many other chickens. Mr. and Mrs. Tweedy are planning to make a chicken pie. Ginger tries hatching a plan to escape the barn. When a circus rooster, Rocky lands on the barn, Ginger hopes she can count on him to help the chickens to escape.

This movie is funny stuff for all ages and is completely inoffensive. This is a family movie to buy and enjoy. Also, if you want to see some other movies that are good, check out Speed, The Patriot, JFK, Titanic, Gladiator, Bad Lieutenant, Road Trip, Air Force One and Deep Blue Sea.

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Summary: The Great Eggscape
Review: I had never seen any of the Wallace and Gromit cartoons before Chicken Run. Still haven't. And yet my expectation meter for Chicken Run was unreasonably high. You see it had been a good couple of months for animation what with Toy Story 2 and Tarzan recently released and I was eagerly awaiting the next critical lauded piece of artwork. So I get Chicken Run. Ehh! It was good but relative to its competition, it was a disappointment.

Chicken Run begins with a fantastic sequence. A brave little chick desperately trying to escape the trappings of her coop. Her elaborate ideas are stopped again and again and again. This happens over the opening credits and it's almost too good. The film never recovers from such a blindingly brilliant introduction.

A film involving escape should not waste its escape ideas in the first five minutes because the rest of the film is lacking in originality. It gets a shot in the arm with the arrival of Mel Gibson's charming rooster. Some of his lines are classics and there are some neat supporting characters. Jane Horrocks is a real crowd pleaser as the constantly happy hen and the war reminiscing rooster is splendidly old school. However, the lead is very bland. She tries to escape and we know she desperately wants to, but that's as far as her character goes. She's too one-dimensional. A disappointingly routine character especially against the eccentricites of the supporting cast.

Chicken Run is a children's film and it works as such. The kids love this animation especially because it seems so new, so amazingly unreal. However, parents looking for an escape adventure would be better off checking out a Steve McQueen movie or something along those lines.

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Summary: Funniest Movie Of 2000!
Review: Chicken Run is a great movie for all ages. It's about a group of chickens that want to escape a fram before they get turned into pot pies. But Whan rocky a cocky american rooster shows up everyone thinks he could fly. He ignores all the problems around him insted of flying on his mind his mind is set on one thing winning the heart of Ginger a young British hen (but she knows Rocky is not to be trusted). Togher It's up to Rocky and Ginger to help their friends fly the coop before it's too late.

I recomend this movie to Everyone, Still young kids might get scard in some parts overall it's a outstanding movie.!!

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Summary: Claymation at its best
Review: I give this movie 5 stars, not only for content, but for the wonderful stop action clay animation. Whoever has the patience to do that, gets Kudos in my book. The humor is very much like the Wallace and Gromit films and the voice casting is perfect. It is so fun to see clay figures looking and acting like the actors that "portray" them. This is a film that we can sit down and watch with the children, even though alot of the British humor is lost on them. It seems that I never fail to "find something new" each time that I watch it, and the humor never grows old. It is an amazing animated tale and one that we will enjoy over and over again through the years, as it "grows" with our children's comprehension. There are villians and be forewarned that a chicken DOES "loose it's head", but its much calmer than most kids movies on the market today. A treat to veiw and a great family film.

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Summary: It's OK
Review: It wasnt as good as I expected, but it was still enjoyable. This is one bizarre movie...it's kind of like they took the plot of 101 dalmations and substituted dogs with chickens. It's a dark movie actually, and if I had little kids I might think twice about letting them watch this. Overall it is enjoyable to watch, I just wasnt blown away by it.

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Summary: Extremely Cute Movie ya gotta Run to!!!
Review: I bought Chicken Run quite a while back and never got around to watching it. I went out of town on Business and decided to take it along, figuring I would finally see what my co-workers had been talking about... It was GREAT! I laughed hystarically at this one... A little about this movie....

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, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the murderous farmers and their farm of doom. Chicken Run is a comedy escape drama with a touch of passion set on a sinister Yorkshire chicken farm in 1950's England. The film follows the turbulent romance between two farmyard chickens, Rocky and Ginger, who yearn for freedom and plan a daring 'prisoner of war' style escape. A 'claymation' adventure from the creator of Wallace and Gromit, featuring chickens as the main characters. Ginger is the 'head chick', and she deviously plots to free all the chickens on the farm, preventing an otherwise certain 'Death By Chicken Pie'. After many failed attempts, she meets Rocky, the 'flying rooster', and decides that he holds the key to their freedom.

I would say this is 'RUN' and buy this movie... you will be glad you did!!!!