Even better than Wallace & Gromit!

Rating: 10/10 (13 June 2000)

Who could have believed that Nick Park (director of The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave) and the crew at Aardman animation would better Wallace & Gromit's originality with Chicken Run. Okay, Park and co-director Peter Lord had more time, more money, some big name star voices (Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson) but this works on every level. It really draws the audience in, the preview audience I saw it with were cheering, applauding, gasping. While it takes a little time to find its pace as it sets the scene and introduces the key characters and their motivation is soon roars ahead full steam, to the finale. Providing hilarious joke after hilarious joke and some inspired set pieces. Whatever else you see this summer, don't miss this!