It'll make you look at your chicken pie differently.

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2000)

I've always loved the Nick Park animation shorts in the past, so this was a must-see. The action centres around a chicken farm in England and takes the lines of some of the great prison escape movies of all time.
Ginger the hen isn't happy with life in the pen and dreams of making it out in to the big wide world. After numerous failed attempts all looks lost. Enter Rocky, a 'flying' rooster, the possible means of escape.
What follows on from this is an hilarious escape, slapstick comedy brilliantly animated by Park's team, with the help of the boys' at DreamWorks. The humour is non-stop with many knowing references to classic PoW camp movies of the past, as well as some other well known films.
The characters are well voiced, although Jane Horrocks as Babs steals the show for me. Gibson as Rocky is good but Sawalha seems lost at times. The rest of the (mainly British) cast are uniformly excellent.
Although not jaw droppingly good, it's still one of the funniest pieces of animation I've seen recently. Go and see it.