Chicken Run

Rating:
Summary: A Fight for Freedom...
Review: The situation at the Tweedy Egg Farm on the English countryside is rather hopeless. Ginger, the ingenious chicken escape artist, wants to help free all her friends before they end up on the Tweedy dinner table. However, Ginger's fellow chickens do not possess the skillful talent that she has which often leads to solitary confinement for Ginger. One night when Ginger is pondering the desperate situation, Rocky, an American rooster, crashes into the hen pen and injures his wing. Ginger convinces Rocky to stay in order to aid in her plans to escape and together they face a new dangerous threat from the Tweedy's. Chicken Run is a superb cinematic experience about the fight for freedom that entertains as well as teaches several valuable lessons for both young and old.

Rating:
Summary: Chickens Escape
Review: Chicken Run
comedy film
directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park
staring Mel Gibbson, Julia Sawalha and alot more

Ginger is one of the main characters and her personality is very kind and light harted.
Rocky is an other character. he has escaped from the zoo and all the chickens think he could fly.
Ginger and Rocky's personality together is not very good.
During the film, the chickens try everything to escape. when they wake up one morning, they find that there only way of getting out of the place is gone. After this, it all changes.

i would recommend this film to people who like animated films and like a bit of comedy. i think it is a good movie because the acting is award-winning, the script is entertaining, the soundtract is splendid and wonderful, costumes were great in the film, stunts in some areas were done well and the location of the film suits it well.

Rating:
Summary: real art, great satire, and many levels of interpretation
Review: Hopefully they will not be binge eaters, but my kids just love this film and have watched it 30 times (at least). As I watch them watch it, I am fascinated at the many levels this can be seen on: as a concentration camp drama, as an ironic and hilarious drama on American bravado, and as just a great and funny story with deliciously delineated characters. This animated film maker is unique in that he is really serious about his art - wanting to do more than just make money - and uses a technique that many think is outmoded (claymation).

Warmly recommended. I never groan when my kids decide to put this on, as I even do with many disney films. This is superior filmmaking. Truly. Get it.

Rating:
Summary: Hogan's Chickens?
Review: Claymation chickens with a plan, greedy chicken farmers, "can do" claymation rats, and viscious dogs all conspire to make this a truly enjoyable film. Can you really resist a movie that features chickens with English accents and an American rooster (hero?). I think NOT!

Wonderful DVD extras that you'll actually watch!

Highly recommended.

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: I loved Wallace And Gromitt from the moment I saw them in The Wrong Trousers. Now I love Ginger, the strong-willed hen from Nick Park's amazing full-length feature.

Anyone who has enjoyed the great prisoner of war films (The Great Escape, The Grand Illusion, Stalag, etc.) will absolutely love this tale of chickens trying to escape from a chicken farm. As each plan to escape meets with failure, hopes begin to sag. But when they learn that the farmer's wife wants to turn them all into pies, desperation takes hold. Then hope springs again as a flying rooster crashes into the camp. Just what happens after that will have to be discovered by viewing this gem.

Once again Nick Park shows that he has an encyclopedic knowledge of films and just what really made them tick. He then takes this knowledge and weaves it seamlessly into his films.

Like many movies, this is one where you will want to sit through the credits as the fun is not quite over until the very end.

Rating:
Summary: VIVA LA POLLO!!!!
Review: VIVA LA POLLO!!!! Finally a movie that represents the true spirit of the mighty and noble chicken. One day we will rise against the human master and strike down the poultry industry.

Rating:
Summary: Plucky Hens
Review: As a fan of the Wallace and Gromit movies, I was looking forward to seeing this full-length animated feature and I was not disappointed. Using the same sophisticated adult humour meshed with eye catching animation for the kids, the film is a winner. It tells the story of a group of hens trying to escape from a chicken farm where they are all about to be turned into pies. A rooster arrives on the scene making big, but empty promises of helping them to escape, so it's up to the plucky hens to save themselves.

There are a lot of tie-ins to other movies that adults will recognize and appreciate the cleverness, but there's enough colourful action and adventure to keep the kids happy, too. The voice actors all do a great job bringing the characters to life.
Of course, the animation is superb and very unique and a lot of fun to watch. The film is a real winner!!

Rating:
Summary: One of my favorite films...
Review: Chicken Run is a true work of art in claymation. It's entertaining and funny to children and adults alike, with plenty of subtle (and not so subtle) nods to things like Star Trek and Indiana Jones. Any fan of Wallace and Gromit should buy this, as well as everyone else!

Rating:
Summary: Good but no staying power
Review: My kids loved this movie the first and second time they watched it. Then, never wanted to watch it again. Cantrast that to the lion King of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Brave little toaster or swan princess which they have watched 10 ten plus times each.

I should have rented not bought.

Rating:
Summary: Better than I'd expected
Review: When I saw this advertised, I wasn't sure what to think. I'd never seen Wallace and Gromitt, created by the same team. I was pleasantly surprised.

The film follows a group of chickens in an egg farm. Slowly, they disappear by the farmer's axe as they stop producing eggs. The chickens continually try to escape, but to no avail. Eventually, Mrs. Tweedy the farm's owner, decides to get out of the egg business, and into the chicken (pot) pie business.

The chickens get wind of her plan, and decide they must escape at all costs. Their salvation, literally, flies over the fence one day as Rocky, voiced by Mel Gibson, enters their lives. He claims that if they hide him in their coops, he'll teach them how to fly so they can get over the fence to safety.

All in all this was a very good movie, and suitable for children. The humor is good, and the plot sound, for an animated chicken movie that is. I'd like to see more feature films done in the style that this was done in. Like I said, I've never seen Wallace and Gromitt, so maybe it's time I checked it out, and you should check Chicken Run out as well. You'll be pleasantly surprised as well!