This shouldn't be funny

Rating: 6/10 (10 December 2000)

This movie is, but shouldn't be, funny. It's a dead-ringer for a Nazi concentration camp in WWII, with executions, mass murders, cruelty and hope. It is funny because the creators tried very (sometimes too) hard to make this a light comedy. But it is not one. I wouldn't take my children to watch this movie; too many questions would arise that needn't be answered at a young age.
It's a good movie; the thing is, it is great for adults. Entertaining enough. But for all of you who rave about the animation, I am surprised you have ignored the real masterpiece in plasticine stop motion: The Nightmare Before Christmas. That one is a movie with a heart and a soul of gold. This one is merely good; I think I will forget it in about a week. It doesn't raise enough questions (about life in a concentration camp -er, I mean, a chicken farm) and it fails to answer most of them (why did Rocky return to the farm? Why and how did he escape?). Read the plot outline, and you will guess every part of the movie in sequence.
Not bad, definitely. But it could (and should have) been so much better.