Release Date:
06/23/2000
Chicken Run is for the birdsand thats a good thing. The first full-length feature from Academy Awardwinning animators Peter Lord and Nick Park, its a comic adventure about nervous chickens on the lam from their cruel masters. Carefully paced, expertly animated, and surprisingly adult, this is a cartoon thats more eager to please grown-ups than the Pokemon set.
Chicken Run is an extended parody of the classic movie The Great Escape, with Mel Gibson lending his voice as a rooster charlatan who convinces a group of hens that they can fly to safety. Meanwhile, the evil farmers, who summarily chop the heads off of chickens if they dont produce eggs, are planning to turn their coop into a pot pie factory. A dark and morbid adventure follows, complete with a number of brilliant action set-pieces that show off the eye popping, three-dimensional qualities of stop-action animation.
Chicken Run is an extended parody of the classic movie The Great Escape, with Mel Gibson lending his voice as a rooster charlatan who convinces a group of hens that they can fly to safety. Meanwhile, the evil farmers, who summarily chop the heads off of chickens if they dont produce eggs, are planning to turn their coop into a pot pie factory. A dark and morbid adventure follows, complete with a number of brilliant action set-pieces that show off the eye popping, three-dimensional qualities of stop-action animation.