The Great Eggscape?The yolk goes on too long for me....

Rating: 5/10 (25 March 2008)

Foghorn Leghorn...now there was a chicken;feisty,cocky,funny and with a great voice.Compared to him,Nick Park's collection of milquetoasts are a Mild Bunch indeed.I thoroughly enjoyed Aardman Animation's anthropomorphic commercials,but a good proportion of their appeal was based on the premise that they were voiced by "real people" unaware as they spoke that their words would later be "sampled".Wallace and Grommit had a certain Northern charm,mainly provided by Peter Sallis,but "Chicken Run" is too self - consciously cute and takes a one - joke concept too far.Bigger is not necessarily better nor indeed funnier.The great Silent comedians knew a thing or two about brevity being the soul of wit;if the Mona Lisa was twice the size it wouldn't be twice as good. I found the movie a great disappointment.It quickly runs out of chicken jokes and the references to various PoW films start wearing thin early on.This is a good 15 minute short dragged on far beyond its welcome.