Chicken Run

Pros: Excellent animation, voice acting, music, script, humour...
Cons: ... nothing, absolutely nothing.

I watched Chicken Run again recently and was reminded of just how good a film it was. Directed by Wallace & Grommit maestro Nick Park and Aardman colleague Peter Lord (an Executive Producer for both “A Close Shave” and “The Wrong Trousers”), it ...

Pros: Impressive animation, funny story and performances
Cons: A lot is inspired by other movies

(This is an entry in the sleeper54 Rewrite Write-off. I wrote my original review on this movie in June 2000, and it met with some mixed reviews. It has been deleted in favor of this update.)

"Chicken Run" is an animated feature that brings us...

Pros: A sort of goofy malleability of beaks and wings.
Cons: A tedious and thoroughly predictable story derived from Toy Story.

I would like to begin by issuing a blanket apology to the human race for what is bound to come across as my arrogance in this review. Please be assured that it is not arrogance, that I know that my reaction to and assessment of Chicken Run must...

Pros: Includes humor and parody from many other films, including Star Trek and The Great Escape
Cons: If you don't understand British English, some of the jokes are not as funny

Let's face it. Whenever a movie is rated G I start to wonder if it is really entertaining for an entire family. After watching 102 Dalmatians this past winter in the theaters and realizing just how weak the plot was, I had great...

Pros: animation and story
Cons: story made me not want to eat chicken

Chicken Run called "the year's funniest movie" by US weekly, is a clay animation film, starring Chickens, and two roosters, one, "Rocky the flying rooster" features the voice of Mel Gibson as the American Rooster "the Lone Free...

Pros: charming characters, hilarious dialogue
Cons: the beheading scene

Having seen and loved the escapades of Wallace and Gromit, I eagerly awaited the release of this full-length feature to the big screen. I finally got to see it, and my hopes were not dashed. My brother and I both gave the film two thumbs up, and we even...

Pros: Inventive, clever and exciting--it might just be the funniest movie of the summer!
Cons: Get the cluck outta here!

By the time the opening credits started to roll, Chicken Run already had my vote as the funniest movie of summer to date. A cross between Hogan’s Heroes and a picnic catered by Kentucky Fried Chicken, this full-length feature film from...

Pros: Everything looked pretty much real.
Cons: Not too interesting for adults.

I heard so much about this movie. People who just loved it so one day I went out and rented it..
I just could not believe it.. I did not care for it at all.. Of course my kids sure did.. But as of me and my husband we both could not stand to sit...

Pros: One of the funnier films of the year.
Cons: None really

"Freedom is not a privleage its a right"
-- Barnaby Mclaughlin


Mel Gibson roared into theaters with two big films last summer. There was the American Revolution drama and Saving Private Ryan wannabe, The...

Pros: great use of claymation and effects, I also liked the use of "real life" backgrounds with the clay in some of the scenes; cute story with no offensive parts
Cons: Younger viewers (3 & under) might not understand the scene with Bernadette and might find Mrs. Tweedy a bit disturbing

Great Britain has given us many great sources of entertainment over the past century. Shakespeare showed us how to love, as did Keats. The Beatles were the epitome of rock and roll, and Duran Duran and the Spice Girls lyrically shook things up a...

Pros: Very funny and well written with lovable characters.
Cons: Not long enough!

Well, I see that over 300 people have already watched this movie but I just watched it and had to write a review on it since I enjoyed it so much.

I just bought a DVD player and wanted to buy a new DVD to go along with it and everywhere I saw...

Pros: Adult Humor - Creative animation
Cons: Adult Humor - misrepresentation as a "child's" film

Crochet hooks, beaded necklaces, a map, one smart hen, one axe,"bum" plucking, weak husband/bossy wife syndrome, sneaky rats, a few foreign "hens" thrown in the mix for laughter, and an American bird with a "chip" on his...

Pros: Great script, bitingly funny!
Cons: A bit on the short side...only 85 minutes long.

First, Toy Story managed to make its viewers feel guilty for every toy that they had ever neglected or abandoned, and now Nick Park and Peter Lord, the creative team behind Wallace and Gromit, do a pretty good job of...

Pros: Strong female (hen) lead. Humor appropriate for kids and adults. The clay work is technically impressive.
Cons: Some younger kids will miss many of the references. A little bit slow in the middle.

My kids don't know anything about The Great Escape. They're not real prison-camps-movie buffs. Would they get a spoof of a POW film?

I put the question to them. "Okay girls - we only have time for one thing tonight:...

Pros: Gentle, good-natured humor and suspense
Cons: Wait... are those chickens going to kiss???

Looking for a movie the kids will enjoy, but one that won't make you feel like tearing your hair out? I wholeheartedly suggest Chicken Run, a wonderfully gentle yet substantial film that is both well-grounded and fantastical.

No cheap...