Chicken Run Reviews

I really enjoyed this. Once you get involved in the storyline, you root for the Chickens to succeed. "I don't want to be a pie, i don't like Gravy." Good!

A fun film featuring many well-known British voices. And I seem to recall an obscure American in the line up as well (just kidding, Mel).

I'm a big fan of Nick Park's work as I've always been in stop-motion animation. It has a realistic feel that Pixar-style animation has only been able to simulate in the last few years because it's so computationally demanding. I recommend the DVD because it includes a decent length "making-of" featurette which shows the amazing amount of skill, patience and time that went into making this film and into Park's subsequent effort Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Recommended for children aged 8 to 80.

After the huge success of Creature Comforts and Wallace And Gromit, expectations of Chicken Run were exceedingly high! Chicken Run is almost like an animated version of the classic film The Great Escape with the same music and very similar dialogue! I have to say that Chicken Run is one of the smartest and most extraordinary animated films that I think have ever been made! It is a very British film with really fantastic British humour and modern Britain background.


Chicken Run is set in a countryside chicken farm in Yorkshire, England in 1959. Ginger is the leader of the entire farm of chickens who are under the dominion of an idiotic farmer and his psychotic, greedy and evil wife. The chickens fall victims to the couple to make money by at first selling eggs (like workers) but then selling chicken pies. Many times, they have all tried to escape the farm and earn their freedom but when they meet Rhode Island Red rooster Rocky and catch him flying over the farm, their hopes begin to rise and make an epic escape from the farm. Mel Gibson voices Rocky and his acting was fabulous! To be honest, I thought that Rocky was a typical Mel Gibson character with not a heroic and leading nature but a charming nature like ladies man so to speak. Well, a "chick's man". Julie Sawalha's performance was very good as Ginger. The rest of the cast did well such as Miranda Richardson, Benjamin Whitrow, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Jane Horrocks and Imelda Staunton.


Nick Park and Peter Lord create another masterpiece! What I admire about their work towards this film is that they bring something new to the screen but there are a lot of key points of originality like the Great Escape music, the clever jokes that we say nowadays and amazing characters! Aardman and Nick Park go onto create the Wallace And Gromit feature film after Chicken Run and now after seeing and loving both of them, I want to see something else from them but this time, something a tad bit different.


Overall, Chicken Run is a really smart, hilarious and quite emotional film that is one that I loved as a child and still love now! It is another fantastic demonstration at what we Brits can do. Definitely one of my all-time favourite animated family films!

This is a great movie, one that I remember really enjoying the first time I ever saw it, and one that has been watched many times in the week since it first came into our home. My daughter loves this movie, and I love watching it too. It has a great story, great animation, and is perfect for a family to watch. Definitely one to share with the children, if you have any, or watch even if you don't.