Chicken Run
The plot revolves around smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky who is the only hope of a chicken band to escape from certain death when their owners decide to start selling chicken pot pies instead of eggs.
9 January 1956, Archway, London, England, UK
11 April 1965, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
3 March 1958, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
17 February 1937, Oxford, England, UK
9 September 1968, Wandsworth, London, England, UK
25 October 1958, London, England, UK
3 January 1956, Peekskill, New York, USA
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
18 January 1964, Rossendale Valley, Lancashire, England, UK
4 February 1945, Liverpool, England, UK
11 February 1971, Beverly, Yorkshire, England, UK
June 29, 2015
Chickens are inherently funny, like nature's idea of a very practical joke. Park and Lord have just improved the old rubber chicken gag, making it movable, turning it into something closer to who we are and what we know as humans.July 20, 2015
It coaxes you to laugh and cry, flatters your intelligence, and practically guarantees a cheap night out: at dinner afterward, no one's going to be ordering anything but salad.August 04, 2013
This first feature by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the team that brought you Wallace and Gromit, is a diabolically witty piece of work, a haymaker.August 24, 2014
Chicken Run is a charmingly conceived entertainment. But it's a little bit twee.July 20, 2015
Its plump chickens maintain that strange, haptic quality that makes you yearn to reach out and squeeze them.July 20, 2015
Even without Wallace and Gromit, most of the trademark joys are here: the compound of squashy creatures and heavy machinery, the wide, open-ended rictus of a toothy smile, and the great Parkian gulp.August 24, 2014
What gives this movie its oddly strong grip on a viewer's heart is a physical tenderness inseparable from the nature of claymation.June 29, 2015
It's a warm-hearted and amusing entertainment that your children will enjoy.August 24, 2014
The first feature film from England's Aardman Animation, and the first truly terrific film to be released by DreamWorks.August 24, 2014
Run to Chicken Run. This clay-animation comedy is the most entertaining animal story since Babe.August 24, 2014
The claymation comedy Chicken Run is eggsactly what the doctor ordered. It's a witty, high-spirited adventure that will appeal to moviegoers of all ages. Call it chicken soup for the funny bone.August 24, 2014
Most of the time Chicken Run entertains, instructs, involves and enchants.