Chicken Run (2000)

Chicken Run  (2000)

Genre(s): Animation & Cartoons, Birds, Crop Dusters, Great Britain, Great Escapes, Period Piece: 1950s, Top Grossing Films of 2000

Voice(s) by: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Tony Haygarth, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, Phil Daniels, Benjamin Whitrow, Lynn Ferguson; DIRECTED BY: Nick Park, Peter Lord; WRITTEN BY: Karey Kirkpatrick; MUSIC BY: John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams. PRODUCER: Jake Eberts, Pathe, Dreamworks Pictures.

Review: It's a prisoner-of-war escape movie with chickens. This Claymation wonder is a comedy set on a failing 1950s Yorkshire chicken farm, where the hens realize their necks are literally on the chopping block when greedy farm wife, Mrs. Tweedy (Richardson), decides to go into the chicken pie business. So chicken leader, Ginger (Sawalha), tries to find a workable mass escape plan. And then daredevil Yankee rooster Rocky (Gibson) literally drops into the barnyard and Ginger believes he can teach all the hens to fly out. Chickens are just funny and you'll be amazed at what the animators have managed to make them do and how expressive they are.