Chicken Run (Animated) (Wide Screen) > Reviews

Advantages: Great animation
Disadvantages: No humans!

I really went into this movie thinking the animation would be great but the story would be to childish. Well i was half right, the animation was amazing, totally crisp and smooth, and the story was wonderful. The Great Chicked Escape is what this movie could of been called. I was surprised how funny it was. I think the expressions on the faces of the chickens were just priceless. This is just a great movie for a person of any age to go see, even if ... Read review

Advantages: a good film worth seeing
Disadvantages: does not appeal to everyone's sense of humour

i went to see chicken run after seeing advertisements and reviews about it, i found it to be a funny film with brilliant animation and a good storyline, not quite the rip off of the great escape that some reviews have described it as, though some parts appear very similar. though certified as a 'U' and young children would probably enjoy it, some of the humour is quite adult orientated (but there is nothing so bad that children should not see the ... Read review

Advantages: great animation, enjoyable
Disadvantages: maybe a bit slow for younger kids

Chicken Run is a film by Oscar winning Nick Park, the Bristol-based man behind Aardman Animations, the creators of Wallace & Gromit & the Creature Comforts films. Chicken Run is about some (guess what !) chickens trying to escape from their cruel owner, who first kills them if they fail to produce enough eggs, then buys a machine to turn them all into chicken pies ! If I wasn't already a vegetarian, I might have been convinced to become one, after ... Read review

Advantages: Funny and moving - you CARE for the chickens
Disadvantages: Just not long enough

Upon seeing "Chicken Run" while I was on a trip to sunny Great Yarmouth, I was surrounded by noisey little five year-olds. But this didn't matter, I laughed myself silly all the way through the film. It took a long time to make, and I think it was worth it, not only for the animation as I believe it did have a really good script as well. From the opening shot to the elaborate final sequence, it was exactly what I had expected - I had fun, I laughed, ... Read review

Advantages: geared towards all audiences
Disadvantages: movie tickets are so damn expensive

Chicken Run is a new claymation film from the creator of the Wallace and Grommit cartoons. It is about a group of chickens who want to escape from the farm before they are made into chicken pies. That's all I'm telling you! You have to see this movie. Even if you think it would look strange for a thrity year old single man to ask for "one ticket for Chicken Run" you have to see it! The film offers funny moments that adults and children will enjoy ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant film, great animation
Disadvantages: None

As a Wallace and Gromit fan, it was my duty to go along to the cinema and watch this new feature length product of Nick Park's animative genius. I was not at all disappointed. I was laughing from the first pain stakingly detailed frame onwards. It would have been acceptable for such a well animated film of such duration to have a less than gripping plot- though, whilst not exactly riviting, the simple story line, based on a whole farm of chickens ... Read review

Advantages: good moral point thorn in the humour mix
Disadvantages: life span

Chicken Run Though most of the elements of this Ardman animation are aimed at children there is also some squarely aimed at adults this aside it is a very funny and well styled film which is centred around a chicken farm of which the chickens are trying to escape from in numerous escape attempts all of which have humorous parts and the whole film has well defined voices for the chickens and other characters. And when things start to ... Read review

Advantages: Very well made film
Disadvantages: a bit typical

...try to run from the chicken farm because it's owner is really harsh and the farm is like a prison. The leader af the chickens is Ginger. She plans all runs, but because of her retarded, fat, stupid chicken friends they never succeded. Then they find out that the farm is not eggfarm anymore -- the evil woman is going to make many chicken pies!!! And when they prepaired to die and Ginder was sitting on the roof praying to God, the superchicken lands ... Read review

Advantages: funny, easy to watch
Disadvantages: too much hype

Having watched all the hype about the film and the fact it's from the makers of Wallace and Grommit, I couldn't wait to see the film. I was intrigued by the fact that Mel Gibson and Julia Sawahla were providing the voices for the central characters of the film as well. The plot revolves around a group of 'captive' chickens devising plans to escape from the evil farmer and his wife before they get the chop when they can't produce eggs any more. The ... Read review

Advantages: Loveable characters
Disadvantages: Can't think of any

...often, and I only watched Chicken Run because I had nothing better to do that evening and a few people from work were going, but I loved it. The character's are superb, particulaly Ginger, the lead hen, who far and away the only one with any sense at all. Her relationship with the the flying chicken is also great, a good love story to go with the great eggscape (sorry for the pun). The film has convinced me to go out and watch the Wallace and Grommit ... Read review

Advantages: Great film, very well done, and enjoyable for children, and adults alike
Disadvantages: None.

Is chicken run really what its made out to be? Totally! Imagine being a chicken, kept in the chicken run, with ambitions to fly free and be happy, with no quotas to keep. Then one day a flying cock falls in. Soon the lead girly chicken falls for the flying cock, and enlists him in their never ending quest to find greener grass. Throw in humour, comedy, sadness, and some adorable rats, and what you have is chicken run. This film is enjoyable ... Read review

Advantages: Great characters good animation
Disadvantages: Too many children in cinema (may be because it is aimed at children)

...and I particually liked the chicken and the egg debate at the end. ... Read review