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Summary: Amazing!
Review: You can't expect anything less than superb from Nick Park and his company of brilliant stop-motion animators, but I think this may qualify as one of the best! I have always been a fan of Wallace and Gromit, and seeing that this movie was coming to my town thrilled me, and I saw the best from the best.The cast of characters was hilarious, including some of my favorite actors and actresses in a opposite of their usual roles, as a chicken. Julia Sawalha made an excellent determined Ginger, and Mel Gibson the cocky ('scuse the pun) rooster. The storyline was captivating and memorable, with laughs for every age group and member of your family. I suggest you give it a try, you'll never want to turn it off!
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Summary: Chicken Pies!
Review: There's nothing more determined than poultry with a plan. Thechickens of Coop 17 are determined to fly the coop for good when theylearn that the malevolent Mrs. Tweedy plans to bake them into chickenpies!
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Summary: Chickens Create a Subliminal Message!
Review: Not since "Gone With the Wind" has a romantic comedy theme worked so well! Not unlike "Rocky" (the boxer), "Chicken Rocky" is cocksure of himself yet unwittingly sentimental at heart. And it's rare indeed when a barnyard full of chickens are more interesting and intelligent than the average "man on the street"! This is hilarious and action-packed fun for the entire family! My unassuming and well behaved three year old loved it, and pleaded (unusual for her), and then literally begged to see it again! Now here's a little parental secret exclusive to amazon.com participants: This film contains subtle lessons in morality, and a subliminal message that both adults and children will absorb . . . And it's likely to stay with them forever. Combine this smart script and storyline with edge of your seat excitement, and . . . Well, by golly, you've got yourself something more tasteful than any "con-cock-tion" Colonel Sanders could ever prepare! The potential for violence never materializes despite am ominous (and for that matter omnivorous), but equally ingenious "Chicken Pot Pie Machine". The feather brained humans are guaranteed to result in many conversions to the vegetarian lifestyle.
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Summary: good movie for people of all ages
Review: this is a pretty good movie, with GREAT claymation. its amazing the way everything moves around and the pie maker is pretty cool. overall a good movie with great claymation!
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Summary: Very impressive!
Review: Even my mother who isn't usually into animated features really laughed out loud at all those zany antics that our feathered (and feather-brained as well) friends are always performing! A great Oscar-winning clay animator of the very whimsical Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park goes on with a great feature-length project involving all the unhappy chickens who are kept like P.O.W.s on a heavily guarded poultry farm owned by the witch-like Mrs. Tweedy and her baboon-minded husband. Of all those timid fussbudgets, one young hen named Ginger is quite plucky enough (no pun intended) to make countless daring attempts to escape her hopeless fate as a producer of eggs and eventually a main dish for the cruel Tweedy family's supper. However, the future does look very bleak when one of the hapless chickens finally meets her end under Mrs. Tweedy's axe. Until ... a swaggering American rooster called Rocky suddenly appears to bring a very sparkly shard of hope to Ginger and all her cellmates. Unfortunately, Rocky is quite daunted by such a huge role so unexpectedly forced onto him that he really scurries to buy some more time for himself as more and more of the prisoners all gather to look upon him as a real hero. Meanwhile, the greedy old Mrs. Tweedy, quite frustrated with the rate of egg production, decides to purchase a monstrous chicken potpie-making machine that will wrap up all the fates of her poor chickens in one deadly stroke. Not to mention the very fact old Rocky turns out to be a FAKE, so Ginger simply must hurry and think of something else FAST... A very wonderful example of anthropomorphism so cleverly displayed through shrewd manipulation of lifeless clay as well as a very generous peppering of movie references, visual gags, and plenty of giggle-inducing slapstick. Also thrown in is the very spine-tingling ride through the potpie machine's great pitfalls as well as a great Bug's Life-like climax that will surely send you to the very edge of your seat! Neverthless, we all still enjoy dining on chicken, however.
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Summary: Something to crow about !
Review: An absolutely wonderful film that operates on many levels. As a kids' story, it's about a bunch of adorable claymation chickens escaping from a prison-like farm to freedom. For adults, it has plenty of in-jokes that WWII buffs will pick up on, including a a few barbs aimed at those "Yanks" who "show up late for every war." Animation fans will love the stop-action effects, which are a blend of stark realism in the farmyard fences and buildings, with fantastic whimsy in the Automatic Pie Machine and the "Old Crate" that the chickens build to make their escape. And be sure to sit through the credits at least once, because the "chicken and egg" debate between the two rats picks up again at the end. To the Jewish readers of my reviews here, let me add that this film can be a very good help in discussiing the Holocaust with your children in a non-threatening way. It's hard to miss the parallels between the "selections" in the Nazi camps and the black-booted farmer's wife deciding who gets the chop today for not laying enough eggs, for example. The issue of resistance is dealt with very well, too. I wouldn't be surprised if references to this movie start showing up in Jewish classrooms this fall.
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Summary: Great entertainment for both adults and children!
Review: "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.
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Summary: Egg-straordinary!
Review: This charming and funny film was the surprise hit of summer 2000 and deserves a place in every home. "Chicken Run" deals with the troubles of a flock of chickens on Tweady's Farm, which is about to be mechanized for greater profit. Evil Mrs. Tweady has just invested in an enormous machine which will kill the chickens, skin them, and make them into Mrs. Tweady's "homemade" pies. When things look their worst, a Yank hero (voice of Mel Gibson) comes cannonballing into their avian roost. Gibson is the never-say-die type and he convinces he can teach the chickens how to escape by flying away. By the end of the movie the chickens do fly, literally and metaphorically, but not in the way you'd think. "Chicken Run" is not a computer-generated movie. It was filmed in stop-action, a painstaking process similar to claymation, where inert figures have to be moved a tiny, tiny amount and photographed one frame at a time. This film took years to produce, but the quality is up there on the screen. Don't think that "Chicken Run" is just a kid's movie. There's a lot of throwaway wit that adults (and even grandparents) will enjoy. For example, the most heroic chickens inhabit coop (stalag) 17. And while Mr. Tweady can see the chickens planning their escape, every time he gets Mrs. Tweady to take a look she only sees the birds clucking and pecking. (Think of Gladys Kravitz on "Bewitched"!) All in all, a superior film.
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Summary: Chicken FUN!
Review: "Chicken Run" (the latest from Aardman Studios, the makers of the 'Wallace and Gromit' films) is simply the most delightful, visually amazing, and FUN animated movie since Disney's "The Lion King." Other studios (notably Warner Brothers) have tried to take a bite out of Disney's pie-share of the kid-movie market, but Aardman and Dreamworks have done it best in this charming, hilarious, and edge-of-your-seat thrilling animated fantasy about a group of hens trying to break out of a chicken farm. Running the farm with an evil eye and an iron ax are the villainous Mrs. Tweedie and her henpecked (literally) husband, who's sure those chickens are plotting escape. The voices are perfect, from Julia Sawalha and Joan Horrocks from "Absolutely Fabulous" as chickens to Mel Gibson as the "flying" rooster Rocky. I want to recommend that every parent take their kids to see this one: unlike many other recent cartoons, this one is completely suitable for all but the very youngest children (there's some tense moments in a chase at the end, and a little threatening to the chickens with an ax), but even better, this will delight and amuse the adults with its clever animation, perfect voice-casting, witty visual allusions to famous movies like "The Great Escape," "The Bridge over the River Kwai," and "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and Indiana Jones-type thrills that range from a chase inside an automatic chicken pie-making machine to a dramatic and climatic escape that is reminiscent of, but even improves on, the high-energy chase sequences of Aardman's "Wallace and Gromit" films. The moral lessons (you can succeed better with teamwork; stand by your friends) are pointed but gentle, without hitting kids over the head. I can't recommend this one highly enough, folks, whatever age you are. And if you head out of the theater and go eat a chicken pot pie, you have a much, much, harder heart than mine!
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Summary: Funny!
Review: I saw this movie with my nephew and we both laughed at all the funny parts. The story line is excellent. The characters are funny. The actors did a great and excellent job. I WANNA SEE THIS MOVIE AGAIN!
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