Why so restrained in the user ratings of old DreamWorks? This movie rocks!

Rating: 10/10 (26 April 2018)

Chicken Run is great movie, but I won't count it as much of a DreamWorks movie than an Aardman animation one. The British humour is just too much to call it DreamWorks. Not necessarily Wallace & Gromit style, but its own style of dialougue and physical comedy.
The atmosphere we are presented to in the beginning is just unnerving, and with a solid performance by Miranda Richardson as the devilish Mrs. Tweedy topped with an almost constant feeling of peril a PG-rating might have fitted better.
Even though the movie has some intense action scenes, which are truly spectacular, and some dark atmospheric passages it also features some hilarious British humour and well acted charaters. Fowler and the two business rats were my favourites, they made me laugh several times. Mel Gibson as Rocky was not necessarily insufferable, but was too much of a generic douche who learns his lesson which you have seen many times before. Everything else is great, so that's just nitpicking.
Chicken Run is a thoroughly enjoyable and underrated flick which will keep you on the edge of your seat with great animation, great characters, fantastic action scenes and a reminder that stop-motion still has a place among top quality entertainment.