Chicken Run (2000)
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 84m
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Cast: Voice cast: Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels
Synopsis:
Hens at an egg-laying facility revolt against their inhumane treatment, with the encouragement of Ginger, their own 'cooler king', and an escaped 'flying rooster'.
Review:
The first 'non-Wallace and Gromit' feature from Aardman/Park productions is an ingeniously conceived mix of The Great Escape and Animal Farm. The arrival of an American character is the inevitable corollary of the involvement of a US studio (Dreamworks), but this is exploited with some neat culture clash humour, often at the latter's expense ('doll face'). All in all a hilarious and superbly animated suspenser, with plenty of touches only adults will appreciate, not least a pair of rodent scroungers from east London.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 84m
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Cast: Voice cast: Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels
Synopsis:
Hens at an egg-laying facility revolt against their inhumane treatment, with the encouragement of Ginger, their own 'cooler king', and an escaped 'flying rooster'.
Review:
The first 'non-Wallace and Gromit' feature from Aardman/Park productions is an ingeniously conceived mix of The Great Escape and Animal Farm. The arrival of an American character is the inevitable corollary of the involvement of a US studio (Dreamworks), but this is exploited with some neat culture clash humour, often at the latter's expense ('doll face'). All in all a hilarious and superbly animated suspenser, with plenty of touches only adults will appreciate, not least a pair of rodent scroungers from east London.
Country: GB
Technical: Technicolor 84m
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Cast: Voice cast: Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Miranda Richardson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels
Synopsis:
Hens at an egg-laying facility revolt against their inhumane treatment, with the encouragement of Ginger, their own 'cooler king', and an escaped 'flying rooster'.
Review:
The first 'non-Wallace and Gromit' feature from Aardman/Park productions is an ingeniously conceived mix of The Great Escape and Animal Farm. The arrival of an American character is the inevitable corollary of the involvement of a US studio (Dreamworks), but this is exploited with some neat culture clash humour, often at the latter's expense ('doll face'). All in all a hilarious and superbly animated suspenser, with plenty of touches only adults will appreciate, not least a pair of rodent scroungers from east London.