Hardly Anything To Dislike!

Rating: 10/10 (2 December 2000)

Chicken Run was a total must-see for me because I love the Wallace and Gromit films, which were done by the same people, and filmed in the same way. Chicken Run impressed me just as much as W&G did!
Ginger (Julia Sawalha) is the leader of a gang of chickens who are trying to break out of a Yorkshire chicken farm set in the 1950's. As the group of chicks continuously try to break out of their hatching-hell, more chickens are been taken into a machine to be made into chicken pies. Ginger and her gang are about to give up, but then an inspiring and decidedly sexy chicken named Rocky comes along and announces that he is able to fly. In a matter of time, Ginger realises Rocky is actually a runaway circus chicken. Ginger then demands to Rocky that he must teach them how to fly out of the Yorkshire farm or else Ginger's group will give his secret away.

There is basically nothing to dislike here, the voice-over performances are naturally astounding, the cinematography is breathtaking, the direction effort from Nick Park is some of the best I have seen all year and the screenplay is simply lovely. The way the film all strings itself together is just beautiful, and parents, teenagers or adults better think again if they think that Chicken Run is just a kids flick. No-siree. This film will impressive everyone who goes to see it, and if you do take an hour-and-a-half off your busy schedule to see Chicken Run, you won't regret doing so.
Cute, cuddly and amazingly inventive, Chicken Run is one of the best films I have seen all year!
I rate Chicken Run 9 out of 10.