Absolute, Complete, Total, perfection...

Rating: 10/10 (21 November 2000)

From the creator of 'Wallace and Gromit' comes Chicken Run, a claymation movie about chickens trying to literaly fly the coop! Ginger is a chicken who keeps getting caught, trying to escape from a chicken farm where the chickens get the axe if they stop laying eggs. After several failed escapes, Ginger spots a rooster flying overhead, and it lands in their coop. His name is Rocky, a real 'Rhode Island red' as he puts it. The site of Rocky in England has all the other chickens excited, they never have had anyone from America before in their coop. But Ginger sees Rocky as the chickens ticket to freedom. Ginger thinks they can escape by getting Rocky to teach everyone to fly (of course he can't, he's just an awol rooster escaping from the circus who is routinely shot out of a cannon). But time is short, and the farmers wife has plans for a new machine where you insert chickens in one end, and out the other end comes out instant chicken pies!!
This movie is hilarious, touching and absolutely perfect. The film contains, Mac a scottish inventor, 2 vicious guard dogs, a clueless chicken named Bab, 2 shady mice (one sneaky the other dumb) who steal stuff and provide all the tools for the escape attempts from the farmers house, and Fowler an old English rooster who dis-trusts the 'American' as a Yank who knows nothing about discipline. Fowler is probably the best character and my favourite in the film who waxes poeticaly about his days in the RAF, and is literaly the English version of Sam the Eagle on the Muppet Show. 'Always late to the war you Americans' he keeps saying. This movie is also filled with lots of British and American bashing which is very funny, and it contains lots of parodies of other films such as 'Stalag 17', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', and 'Star Trek'.
A perfect film for kids, and adults will love it. Also the animation is INCREDIBLE. It seems like this claymation movie could have taken 5+ years just to make!!. This is absolutely one of the best films of the year.. and the only one so far that I have seen to come out this year to receive this rating..
Rating 10 out of 10.
If you did not like this film there is something SERIOUSLY wrong with you!