Nick Park is god!

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2000)

Nick Park is god. This is most definitely one of the best 10 films I have ever seen. The use of stop-motion claymation was great and fitted with the story, and in no way made the movie seem stilted.
The story, was amazing, managing to parody and homage to almost every prison flick around (They even got a few Star Trek references in too!) yet still having the originality and humor as to not be too dark.
The characters where very well designed, Ginger and Rocky's romance was foreseen but still enjoyable. The chicken gags where brilliant.
The direction of this movie by both Peter Lloyd and Nick was fabulous, considering that they had a two year shooting schedule with each directing capturing around 4 seconds of animation a day...it makes you wonder how they did it.
There was one little disappointment...there was no walk on by Parks (and Aardman's) most famous clay duo, Wallace and Gromit...even a reference would have been a nice little nod, but still the movie was great and thankfully not too short, while Toy Story was also the first of its kind (for pure CG animation) I felt at just over an hour it felt too short, thankfully Chicken Run came in at just the right length even considering its the first claymation movie to be made.
The best movie of the summer? Oh yeah...it rocks.