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Summary: Possibly the Best Movie made in the year 2000
Review: This is the only movie I saw released last year that met & exceeded my expectations. It was epic in scope, with characters who were more noble than in The Patriot or Gladiator. Revenge was the primary motive for the protagonists in both of those films, the protagonist of Chicken Run, however, was fighting for freedom for all. It was well paced and much shorter than those other would-be epics, even as it managed to provide a grander scope of the realm of humanity wrapped up in this story of chickens trying to escape doom at a farm. This clever revamping of The Great Escape ends up playing just as well as a light-hearted variation on Animal Farm.
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Summary: Cute Chickens With A Goal
Review: This is a delightful movie about chickens who decide to standup for themselves. Very cute and amusing, it still gets across an important message. The movie has some great moral lessons that children can grasp, while still being intelligent enough to keep an adult's interest. Some parts might be alittle too intense for younger children. The clamation is a joy to watch. This is a movie that will put a smile on your face.
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Summary: Absolute Idiocy
Review: Give me a break! Chickens whit teeth,a story that drags,and drags,and drags,and then steals his better ideas from A bugs life(the bragging hero who flies when his weakness is found out,then returns and saves the situation.)This movie was one of the most unmitigatedly opprobrious pieces of bad animation I've had the misfortune of viewing!
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Summary: Not as funny as I expected
Review: Chicken Run didn't get funny until the end of the movie. It was very entertaining at the end. I recommend this movie for families because it is enjoyable for everyone.
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Summary: Henlarious!
Review: I just loved this movie! It's clean humor which you can watch with your children. The "animation" is faultless and the story line gives inspiration. I found the bonus material very interesting. It's amazing that it takes an entire day to film a mere 2.5 seconds of the movie. The characters have their own personality and I loved it when the "blonde" chicken of the group saw her life flash before her eyes...and boy, was it boring! (Not an exact quote.)I would have to say this is one of those which needs space on your shelf. Your children, and I believe you too, will enjoy watching it time and time again.
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Summary: One of my Favorite Animated movies
Review: I just love good animated movies, and this is one of the best. The kids will like the silly but fun plot, but the creators really did well with all the "Great Escape" and other references that will have the adults rolling on the floor. when I saw this in the theater, my wife and I were laughing at things that the kids in audience didn't get and were looking at us like we lost our heads. Buy or rent this one.
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Summary: You'll never eat a pot pie again!
Review: This was a great movie. As for being dark and edgy like some reviewers say... they're nuts! This movie is for everyone, young and old. Very humorous, but then you have to have some intelligence to get much of the humor, it's a very smart comedy. I think too many people are used to the milktoast Disney products that parts of their brain shut off when they see other animation. Too bad for them. One of the best parts of this movie is that it takes off on a lot of old WWII POW flicks, Stalag 17 and the Great Escape most noticably. The beginning footage is almost a shot by shot remake of the opening of the Great Escape. Remember that bouncing ball? Great movie, I would reccomend it. You can watch it over and over again and see new things.
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Summary: Chicken no fun
Review: Sorry, but I didn't find this to be the "Toy Story II" of 2000. I didn't even find it to be the "Toys." I like Nick Parks' work, but these characters were just a little too cliche, at times a little too maudlin, and ultimately a little too -- too -- *British* -- to crack me up. Only the opening "Great Escape" title sequence and the adventure inside the piemaking machine kept me awake.
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Summary: Sorry-Not that good
Review: Bought the DVD and watched with a 5-year-old and my husband. My husband and I chuckled maybe three times and the 5-year-old maybe once. I agreed with another posting that it was definitely dark and edgy and not appropriate for a child under 8 years old. Although I enjoyed the fact that it wasn't a musical, I found it slow and uncaptivating. The British accents were sometimes difficult to follow (it's not as if you can really read an animation's lips to help you along). I wouldn't consider it a "keeper" such as Toy Story or Lion King.
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Summary: Laugh, Think again, Marvel on it... laugh...
Review: DreamWorks' unvbelievably crafty and doubleplusgood stop-animated hit `Chicken Run' provides enough originality of concept and expertise of execution to score as fun, high-spirited entertainment for the whole family. Deliciously reminiscent of the 1981 classic BBC series "Tenko", (a tale of british female POWS in WWII), 'Chicken Run' cleverly envisions a British poultry farm as a barbed-wired camp in which a group of animated hens and one retired RAF rooster are trapped in a life of hopeless, egg-producing servitude. When the owners of the farm decide to up their profits by converting their operation to a chicken pie manufacturing plant, Ginger, the feisty, levelheaded hen who harbors visions of a glorious life beyond the confines of this hellish prison, decides it is time for the ladies to band together and find a way to escape once and for all. Meanwhile, into their lives drops Rocky the Flying Rooster, a wisecracking American circus performer whose head is easily turned by the attention such a singular stud naturally receives from a coop full of love-starved females. Together, these unlikely heroes and heroines plan and scheme their big break, encountering various setbacks and thwarting multitudinous dangers along the way. As a piece of animation, 'Chicken Run' is truly outstanding. Opting for traditional animated puppetry rather than drawn cel animation or even computer-generated graphics, the creators of 'Wallace and Gromit' (Peter Lord and Nick Park) do a remarkable job of creating an assortment of characters whose movements are fluid and whose appearance borders on the surrealistic. In short, these are not `realistic' looking chickens - all the better to enhance the otherworldly quality of the film's setting. The carefully crafted sets and backgrounds represent a similar triumph in the areas of attention to detail and establishment of mood. The movie is, quite simply, a joy to look at from beginning to end, and it is gratifying to know that filmmakers can buck the recent trend towards full scale computer animation and still produce a film that looks this impressive. Just as important, Karey Kirkpatrick has provided a script filled with clever one-liners, finding just the right balance of acerbic wit and heartwarming sentiment. In addition, every single voice, including [absolutely] fabulous Julia Sawalha as heorine Ginger, Miranda Richardson as cool, calculating Mrs. Tweedy, Jane Horrocks as lovely, featherhead Babs, "Shakespeare in Love's" Imelda Staunton as Bunty, the Stepford Hen and delicious Lynn Ferguson as Mac (you haven't lived if you haven't heard her speak, gorry!), sounds perfectly right in the context of the character assigned to it. All in all, 'Chicken Run' certainly is one of the great works of animation done recently and it certainly will stand as one of the best such films of our times.
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