Good, not great

Rating: 7/10 (5 July 2000)

Witty, clever film, but not quite as good as the IMDB voters would suggest. Basically the plot is pretty standard outsider-who-is-not-what-he-seems-inspires-townspeople-to-do-great-things kind of thing, with lots of chicken jokes thrown in.
And while I appreciate the subtext of the satire of the factory farm methods, I'm not sure this was really an intentional goal of the film, nor does it go far enough. England's small farmers are not nearly as heinous as American practices. Cal it an anti-meat tale for kids.