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Summary: Chicken Run
Review: This is brilliant, enough action to keep the children happy and planty of very clever and subtle jokes to keep the grown-ups happy.Your kids will love you for buying this film. This will become one of the classic animated films made. BUY IT!
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Summary: Delightful all the way through
Review: I found this movie to be absolutely charming and funny from the very beginning. Who knew that animated chickens could be so endearing. There is humor, suspense, and a moral in this storyline. I loved it.
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Summary: Chicken Run was Total FUN!
Review: I went to see Chicken Run on friday night. I went to the movie thinking that it would be all right but not great. I saw the preview and just thought that the clamation was great. I did not expect it to be such a great movie. I went in to the show and saw half of the theater was kids and the other half old folks. The movie started and the opening scene not only made the kids and the older people laugh but I caught my self laughing as well. The movie was good all the way through (unlike any recent disney movies). I thought this movie was alot better than that dinosaur movie. I came home and wrote this review and hope to see it again. Otherwise I will wait till I buy it on DVD.
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Summary: chicken run i cant think of a pun like that other dude
Review: I just saw chicken run today at the first possible showing. It was pretty cool. It is funny and there is no bad language or anything. It's all about these chickens trying to escape their farm, and by doing so need the help of the "flying" mel gibson rooster, rocky. It's got great animation just like wallace and gromit, and it is a good movie. I think the best character is the old army chicken (he always bosses around the other chickens and tells them what it was like "back in the day"), he is hilarious. It's a good movie and i suggest everyone to go see it.
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Summary: great for kids, but meant for adults
Review: While children will enjoy the great animation and slapstick humor, much of the dialog and plot is meant for adults. Children can understand the plot and the obvious verbal jokes, but the comic references to older prisoner-of-war movies will leave them wondering what the grown-ups in the audience are laughing about. So while this is a great comedy for children, adults who see it will probably laugh even more. The plot is interesting, and full of surprises, unlike typical predictable Hollywood scripts. (Also, the surprises made sense; they weren't just plot-hole non-sequiters.) It's not just a beautifully animated feature-length ad for Disney action figures and soundtrack albums. We cared about the characters, and never knew what would happen in the next scene. The characters include chickens, both heroic and "chicken", greedy rats, and villainous humans. Every character with a speaking part has a clear personality. Don't miss it just because you don't have any kids to drag you to the theater.
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Summary: Chicken Run
Review: The creators of the British animated classic "Wallace and Gromit" bring their magic to a full length feature. It's an ingenious little adventure that follows the hopes and dreams of a chicken named Ginger (Julia Sawalha). Her dream is to escape Mrs. Tweedy's chicken farm. She claims she can do it on her own but what bewilders her is that she is afraid for all her fellow fowl within the coop. So their plan focuses upon all of them in one huge jail-break. Ginger's prayers seem to be answered when a "flying" rooster named Rocky (Mel Gibson) drops into the coop after escaping a traveling circus. Meanwhile Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) develops a plan to turn her little farm into a massive "chicken pot pie" factory forcing Ginger and Rocky to teach all the others to fly before they become pies. What makes "Chicken Run" so ingenious was how the animators made us want to be apart of the chicken world. We fall head over heals involved with these chickens and their daily lives. Coupled with that involvement, "Chicken Run" also cleverly delivers us into a "prison breakout" movie filled with humor, and excitement. "Chicken Run" is a pure delight. For many people this will be their first experimentation with a full length animated feature involving clay. The clay for me helps reflect the tones and dimensions of the characters. In some ways I think it aids a lot in the audience's involvement in the chicken world. Placing aside the claymation and those magnificent machines, "Chicken Run" also brings back a lot of classic Hollywood moments in the films setting. There are scenes which remind us a lot of the classic World War 2 prison movies. Films like the "Great Escape", "Stalag 17" and even the misadventures of "Hogan's Heroes". What I liked about those film references here is that they weren't here to poke fun at the films but to play homage. The references also aid the audience in diving deeper into the film and its delight. If you remember "Wallace and Gromit" then you may recall all their huge machines which helped enchant their everyday lives. From the rocket-ship to the sheep shearing machine, "Chicken Run" has these kinds of machines which have always amazed me in their transformation and assembly. How do they dream up these wondrous machines? (4.5 of 5) So Says the Soothsayer.
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Summary: Chicken FUN!
Review: Last night, I was lucky enough to attend a sneak preview of this new adventure from Aardman Studios (makers of the "Wallace and Gromit" films), so let me be the first (but definitely not the last) to say that "Chicken Run" 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 Jane 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 a 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: Fun and engaging entertainment for the whole family
Review: CHICKEN RUN from Aardman Productions is a treat through and through. This feature length claymation film was created by Nick Park and team, the creators of the Oscar-winning characters "Wallace and Gromit." Since I am a long-time "Wallace and Gromit" fan I went to this movie with high expectations -- I was not disappointed. The characters develop nicely as the show moves along, and the voice actors really help the claymation characters come to life. The best way to describe this movie is, well, "Wallace and Gromit" meet "The Great Escape." Wallace and Gromit do not appear in this movie -- the main characters are a pair of chickens and the human owners of the chicken farm. While the lead roles are good, I think that the supporting characters move this show from "cute" to "memorable and lasting." I particularly like the clueless knitting chicken and the staunch old-school former R.A.F. rooster. The humans also do their bit to keep things rolling. The premis for the movie is this (without giving too much away)... Chickens in a patrolled, fenced-in yard must lay eggs or they are taken to the block and served up for dinner. One chicken "Ginger" is not willing to accept that as their fate and she plans a series of unsuccessful escapes. The stakes are then upped when the chicken owners plan to change their operation from egg to chicken pie production! For those of you who may be fans of WWII POW movies, keep an eye open for connections to and even scenes from movies like "The Great Escape," "Stalag 17," and others. The wife of the chicken farmer seemed somewhat Commandant-like to me, and her husband was very much the dull-witted but dangerous head guard type. This movie is watchable for the entire family with sight and verbal gags for children and for adults. The only violence is implied but not shown (i.e., killing a chicken with a hatchet -- followed by a plate of bones). 5 stars all the way. Enjoy! Alan Holyoak
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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: Beyond the Clay Animation... important MANAGEMENT lessons!
Review: Ever found yourself comparing and contrasting movies, or t.v. dramas to real life applications, more specifically at the office? Most of us do - it's how we relate with the characters in the movie or t.v. drama.
As most people who frequent their neighborhood movie store, OFFICE SPACE was the satire of Corporate Life. Chicken Run on the otherhand is the real deal. It provides great value as a unique means of learning corporate structure, and management.
No matter your level in any organization, this movie has some serious, deeper connections to strategic management and managerial style. I challenge you to grab a pen & paper, watch the movie, and write down any situations that mirror a real life / corporate application and/or situation - then pay close attention to what happens, and write down your thoughts. You'll have to press Pause/Play a few times - but it's absolutely worth it!!!
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