Chicken Run (DVD)

Chicken Run tells the humorous story of a band of chickens who seek escape from their coop before their owners, the hilarious oafish yet suspicious egg farmer Mr. Tweedy and his greedy, dominatrix wife, surprisingly named Mrs Tweedy,who wants to make them all into chicken pies. The film is a homage to the World War II prison films of the 1950s and 1960s (particularly The Great Escape), but it alludes to numerous other films, including Braveheart and the Indiana Jones films. Seen where ginger is trapped in a oven and her hat comes off and she just has time to pick it up before the oven closes (similar to Indiana Jones). Chicken Run is brought to us by legendary ...  Read the complete review

I was recently given a video as a gift for doing one of my neighbours a favor, Chicken Run. The front cover boasts that the film is made by the same team that made the Wallace and Gromit features. Can't be that bad then, as I adore that broad Yorkshire man and his play dough canine friend. There is always one of the three 20 minute Wallace and Gromit films on TV over the Christmas holidays, in fact seeing them at Christmas has almost become as mandatory Yuletide viewing as the Indiana Jones movies or The Snowman cartoon. Anyway I'm wandering, back to my Chicken Run opinion. PLOT: Chicken Run is about the escapades from ...  Read the complete review

Chicken Run is a classic animated film that was directed by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park, under his Aardman Animations production company, and was a considerable hit upon its release with audiences and critics alike. It is animated in the now familiar "claymation" style that Park has helped become famous and quite charmingly retrograde, given its release several years after Pixar had arrived on the scene with their visually elaborate CGI productions. The Tweedys run their farm in Yorkshire much like a POW camp of some sort, with the chickens who are nearing readiness to be butchered obviously quaking in their boots and resembling the soldiers ...  Read the complete review

I remember Chicken Run fondly as it was the film i went to see on my first date with my ex boyfriend. Although nervous and probably not paying as much attention to the film as i should, i ended up buying the dvd for £12 from Woolworths when it was released. There is a brilliant cast in this film doing the voices of the chickens and some other characters. This includes the brilliant Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson and Jane Horrocks. If you have never heard of Chicken Run, it is an animated film mainly aimed at children and made by the Aardman Animations studios. It hit our screens in 2000. It was made in the same production studio as the brilliant ...  Read the complete review

Chicken run, a claymation in an industry based around real actors or 3d models. I've always loved the odd movie like this that has a unique feel to it with a good story to boot. In this particular story we are taken to a farm filled with hens and a mean mean farmer with her assistant. Thin, slender, void of compassion, she runs the concentration camp that is this farm. The hens in the farm are to deliver eggs every day or become a pie to be sold later. A rather dark setting if you think about it. Our protagonist believes that all they would need to do... is learn how to fly! That is of course, after failing to escape via any other means several ...  Read the complete review