Another Aardman plasticine triumph...

Rating: 8/10 (26 August 2012)

...which, although it fails to solve the riddle of which came first, the chicken or the egg, nonetheless fits its 80-minute running time as smoothly as an egg in its shell. Nick Park and Peter Lord, the heart and soul of the illustrious Aardman Animations, deliver another superb piece of stop-motion entertainment, this one a riff on "The Great Escape," only it's chickens trying to escape their rubber-booted owners and the threat of a chicken pot pie machine. It's great stuff, nicely written, and gorgeously conceived and executed, pardon the pun. The only thing I thought was sadly lacking was a "chicken crossing the road" joke, and it's possible I just missed it. Eminently worth a rewatch. And another...
"I told you they was organised."