A Chicken's Quest for Freedom

Rating: 8/10 (29 December 2006)

This beautifully animated movie is both charming and hilarious. It explores an age old concept of the quest for freedom using chickens trapped in a pen as the setting for the tale, and they are all given individual personalities by the excellent voices from the likes of 'Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks and Julia Sawalha'
Their life on Tweedy's farm is heading for a huge turn for the worse when Mrs Tweedy 'Miranda Richardson' has a better idea of how to make money. Their only hope is Rocky 'Mel Gibson' a Rooster who knows the way out, if only he hadn't broken his wing.
Chicken Run is fresh, clever and very very funny, and it is a must see movie for all the family.
8/10