"Grade A" Film

Rating: 9/10 (22 June 2000)

As a Nick Park fan, I eagerly awaited the opening of this film. "The Great Escape" is one of my favorite films of all time and the first five minutes of "Chicken Run" is a complete riff on it. However, they did not depend on that venerable film much after that, to my relief. The plot is not complicated, but is kept fresh with hilarious dialogue (full of puns) and characterizations. The voices were one of the most wonderful elements in the film. The other was references to other movies, including "Braveheart", "Star Trek", "Indiana Jones" and I'm sure many more that I missed the first time round.
A half-step below "Toy Story 2" (which had a slightly more original plot and characters) this is one movie I will definitely be buying on video or dvd. It begs repeated viewings.