Fun Stuff

Rating: Null/10 (14 April 2004)

"Chicken Run" is good clean fun. I'm not going to comment on this one too deeply, others have done that already. What I will say is that I enjoyed it from beginning to end, and though the ending is fairly predictable, it's getting there that's the fun part. BTW I would not have known it was Mel Gibson as the voice of "Rocky" had I not seen it on the DVD jacket/poster.
This movie is darker than it seems, after all, the chickens are in a forced labor camp that is being converted into a death camp, right? Not really a theme for kids, right? But this isn't a movie that you'd want to think too deeply about, it moves very quickly and is just fun, and that's how I watched it.