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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Apr 13, 2003
Pros: Impressive animation, funny story and performances
Cons: A lot is inspired by other movies
Summary: (This is an entry in the sleeper54 Rewrite Write-off. I wrote my original review on this movie in June 2000, and it met with some mixed reviews. It has been deleted in favor of this update.)
"Chicken Run" is an animated feature that brings us ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 4, 2009
Pros: Fun entertaining animated movie.
Cons: None.
Summary: Aardman Studios first became known for the Wallace & Gromit shorts. In 2000, the studio released Chicken Run, their first full length movie. DreamWorks was involved with the project.A group of chickens living ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 17, 2007
Pros: Funny, Witty, and very entertaining
Cons: It's not an instant classic.
Summary: Plot summary There are always a few key things that separate an original from its remade version. some things may be hard to catch, but when found they make the remake all the more entertaining. I watched, reviewed, and enjoyed two movies in which ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 4, 2007
Pros: everything, I'm serious
Cons: not a single thing
Summary: I wanted to see this movie for a really long time, since I first heard of it, a few years ago. Every time I had a chance to see it, I would always be detained by something I had to do. When I finally had the time to see it, I got my bag of popcorn, soda ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 2, 2007
Pros: Excellent animation, voice acting, music, script, humour...
Cons: ... nothing, absolutely nothing.
Summary: I watched Chicken Run again recently and was reminded of just how good a film it was. Directed by Wallace & Grommit maestro Nick Park and Aardman colleague Peter Lord (an Executive Producer for both “A Close Shave” and “The Wrong Trousers”), it ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 13, 2006
Pros: Cast, good laughs.
Cons: The chickens have teeth.
Summary: In the farming community of England there is a chicken farm which resembles, and is run like a POW camp by the "Tweedys" (voiced by Miranda Richardson and Tony Haygarth). "Mrs. Tweedy" (Richardson) pays close attention to the egg output, then picks the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 7, 2005
Pros: Great, funny film !
Cons: None !
Summary: Firstly, I promise not to crack any puns about eggs, chickens, pies or farms during this review. Honestly. Chicken run was one of those films I could'nt decide whether I wanted to see or not. I dithered around blockbuster for a while, and it was ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 3, 2004
Pros: Clay-animation at its best! You'd forget it's all plasticine.
Cons: A little formularic.
Summary: This movie is by Aardman Studios, who gave us the wonderful Wallace & Gromit animated short films which have garnered Oscars. The clay-animation is fantastic! The figures are so expressive after a while you forget they are blobs of plasticine. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 14, 2002
Pros: good family movie, kids can watch it,funny details in movie.
Cons: sometimes it gets sort of violent.
Summary: Well I watched this movie and the part where the rooster got flown into the yard and the hens thought he could fly was not very original everyone knows they cannot fly. Then when Mrs Tweedy got the machine to make th pies it was a glitch and chance for ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 21, 2002
Pros: Excellent animation and range of special features.
Cons: Not quite as good as Wallace & Gromit.
Summary: Chicken Run was released on video and DVD in 2000 and is a feature length animation from Aardman studios: The Nick Park led outfit that bought us Wallace and Gromit and Creature Comforts. It is described officially as a "claymation" film, rather than ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 6, 2002
Pros: Funny, Entertaining and a landmark for clay animation...
Cons: But a bit of a let down.
Summary: I am a Wallace and Grommit fan. As of yet I haven't found a person who doesn't like and Wallace and Grommit. Wallace and Grommit are good. So was Creature Comforts.
So, therefore, their director and animator Nick Park is a good person to watch ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 25, 2001
Pros: Made in England
Cons: Made in England
Summary: There seems to be a school of thought that says that modern entertainment must contain sex, nudity, blasphemy, profanity, big guns, big egos and big explosions in order to be classified as "entertainment". Thankfully, once in a while something ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 20, 2001
Pros: great story, very funny
Cons: there's one scene that might not be pleasant for children 5-10
Summary: At first I wasn’t so sure that I really wanted to see this movie. I couldn’t tell you why but I just had the feeling that it wasn’t going to be a good one. But one day, a while after the movie was released. I was looking for movies to rent and I thought ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 17, 2001
Pros: good claymation, funny
Cons: dragged on a bit, some scary parts for younger children
Summary: One of the funniest parts of this movie is the begining while they show the credits. It shows many of the ways that the chickens are trying to escape from the farm they live on. Every attempt fails and one chicken, Ginger, gets caught every time and put ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 12, 2001
Pros: Good, family entertainment
Cons: Ever hear a chicken speak with a British accent?
Summary: This is a well-done movie that does a good job developing the characters, and by the end, makes you hope the chickens succeed in finding the wide-open spaces they dream about.
The protagonist, Ginger, is a plucky hen on a mission to free all ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 25, 2001
Pros: A sort of goofy malleability of beaks and wings.
Cons: A tedious and thoroughly predictable story derived from Toy Story.
Summary: I would like to begin by issuing a blanket apology to the human race for what is bound to come across as my arrogance in this review. Please be assured that it is not arrogance, that I know that my reaction to and assessment of Chicken Run must ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 20, 2001
Pros: Its a Nick Park film
Cons: Like Babe, may drive younger audience to vegetarianism.
Summary: In the beginning, there was Wallace and Gromit. One was an eccentric English tinkerer and cheese lover. The other, his faithful, and frequently sardonic dog. Both were made of clay, and animated in a series of short films that, hopefully, will be ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 19, 2001
Pros: The kids loved it.
Cons: I found it to be boring.
Summary: Chicken Run is about a chicken farm that the chickens are trying to escape from. Every time they attempt an escape, they get caught. Ginger is always trying to come up with an escape plan and something or someone always messes it up.
You see, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 10, 2001
Pros: Cute animation. Good story. Keeps children glued to the television.
Cons: Kids seem to want to watch it over and over again.
Summary: "Chicken Run" is one of those movies that children seem to want to watch over and over again. This doesn't phase me much, since I don't have kids of my own, but every time my nieces and nephews are visiting I have to watch it again and again.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 2, 2001
Pros: Includes humor and parody from many other films, including Star Trek and The Great Escape
Cons: If you don't understand British English, some of the jokes are not as funny
Summary: Let's face it. Whenever a movie is rated G I start to wonder if it is really entertaining for an entire family. After watching 102 Dalmatians this past winter in the theaters and realizing just how weak the plot was, I had great ... read more
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Release Date: 2005-02-08, Rating: G (General Audience)
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