Hilarious Fun: "The Great Escape" revisited

Rating: 7/10 (16 July 2000)

Plot: In a chicken farm of the brutal Tweedy's, all but one chicken would be quite content with their lives, laying eggs. Except Ginger who drives them through escape trial after escape trial (end regularly ends up in solitary confinement). Until one day an American rooster enters camp, causing hearts falling in love, American-British bilateral friction and a new drive to new ways to escape. But Rocky turns out to be a no-good rambling rooster, giving no big help to the escape trials. Things got sped up when chicken are endangered by new pie-making machine. Then the happy-end turns in: Rocky returns just in time to help all the chickens escape, becomes a pair with Ginger and all end up happily in a chicken sanctuary.
Comment: If you like or know at least 'The Great Escape' then you'll have some hilarious moments, as some plots and scenes are almost perfectly replayed (the baseball in solitary confinement, the removing of planks in bunk beds, the tunnel railway, the British-American misunderstandings, etc.). Just this makes the movie worth watching. Add the inescapable kindness of clay pigeons (of "Wallace and Gromit"-fame) and the ever-present temptation of comparing Rocky with some Mel Gibson-characters, and you're up to a much-too-short lovely movie. Definitely worth watching (even if you're not a kid).