Technical tour de force, hilarious and a good storyline

Rating: 10/10 (12 December 2000)

Well, it's been a few years since "A Close Shave", but the wait HAS BEEN WORTH IT! Chicken Run bursts at the seams with inventiveness, in-jokes, puns and technical brilliance. Movie cliches are deftly and affectionately satirised, especially in the love story subplot. Julia Sawahla is a suitably plucky (sorry :-) heroine, and Mel Gibson is wonderfully brash as Rocky.
I will certainly be going back to catch all the things I missed the first time, and I really hope all the people who paid multiply for the empty whizz-bang of "Phantom Menace" come to see this, to find out what a special effects movie _WITH_ a storyline is like.