This is a family movie adults will enjoy more than the kids.

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2000)

This is an escape movie. Ideas are borrowed from:
- "The Great Escape" - One of the chickens digs a tunnel ala Charles Bronson and yet another mimics Steve McQueen bouncing a ball off the wall in solitary confinement.
- "Stalag 17" - Much of the action happens in coop 17.
- "Von Ryan's Express" - The chickens capture their warden and make him their prisoner.
- "The Birdmen" - Mimicing the escape of pilots from an Alpine POW camp during WW II, the chickens build their own aircraft.
- "The Brigde on the River Kwai" - The hero escapes and then comes back to help those left behind.
The movie gets off to a bang up start and has a rousing end. In the middle it drags a lot, in part because it gets away from the sight gags that evoke so many well known escape films that have gone on before.

The root cause of much of the drag-in-the-middle is the time invested in building a relationship between Rocky (Mel Gibson) and Ginger (Julia Sawalha). The relationship building audience) is never really convincing and becomes too talky.
All things considered, Chichen Run is a hoot and one you should see, regardless of whether you have a wagon load of children.