A Look Back at Chicken Run (2000)

 

With Dawn of the Nugget arriving very soon, it's time to look back at the first movie.

Chicken Run is a stop-motion comedy movie. It was produced by DreamWorks Animation, Aardman Animation, Allied Filmmakers, and Pathe and distributed by DreamWorks Pictures. The movie is Aardman's first feature-length film. Chicken Run was written by Peter Lord, Nick Park, and Karey Kirkpatrick and directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park.

The story is there's an egg farm run by the cruel Mrs. Tweedy and her submissive husband, and at this farm if a chicken can't lay any eggs, they're done for. Because of this, a rebellious chicken named Ginger wants to bust out of the farm and take both herself and her friends somewhere safe. She thinks she's found the answer with a rooster named Rocky Rhodes.

• Negatives

I've got nothing.

• Mix

Still nothing.

• Positives

It goes without saying but, the claymation, stop motion, whatever term you want to use, is spectacular. It's also very surprising how despite being clay, we're able to see so much emotions out of the characters.

Speaking of characters, the movie does a tremendous job with them. All of the animal characters are very likable and charming. There's really no character to hate, well you'll most likely hate the Tweedys, but they're the villains so who cares.

Which now brings me to the humor. This was and will always be a funny film. While there are physical bits of comedy, the strongest bits of humor mainly comes from the dialogue. One that had me laugh out loud was when one of the chickens said "I don't want to be a pie, I don't like gravy." Like seriously? THAT'S your biggest issue with the whole pie thing? 😆

The last thing I'll praise is the story. Not only is it funny, it's also very entertaining how this is basically The Great Escape but with chickens, but what also made the story great was it's pretty dark despite being very lighthearted. Mainly because these chickens will actually die if they fail and are then get captured. Something the movie touches on earlier. So there's some actual stakes involved.

Chicken Run is a very fun movie and I strongly recommend you watch it, if you haven't already.

My final rating is, A Must Watch.

Okay, that's gonna do it. Come back on Saturday, Dec 16th, for my review of Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.