Chicken Run flies short of a good fare

Rating: 5/10 (11 August 2000)

Chicken Run is a Burger King kids' meal. But the movie is not family fare. In the Pie Machine scene, mothers were removing their hysterical 6-year-olds. Children old enough to understand that this an animated farce, along with adults, would be too old for a Burger King kids' meal.
The animation, as good as it is, has not the story as clever as creators' hit series, Wallace and Gromit, a witty commentary on contemporary life. Chicken Run croaks with the silly American rooster. He makes the black British humor too banal.
As a sophisticated dark picture, Chicken Run flies onto the chop block. Make that a deluxe chicken sandwich with fries.