Sunday, July 16, 2017

Chicken Run: Their Great Escape

One of the best stop-motion animated films ever. It's not exactly underrated since it has 97% ratings in Rotten Tomatoes but not much people have even heard of the movie, unlike Frozen. 

Chicken Run is a 2000 British-American stop-motion animation family film produced
by Aardman Animations and directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. It was the first feature-length film to be produced by the Academy Award Winning creators of Wallace & Gromit and the first produced in partnership with DreamWorks, which co-financed the film (along with Pathé) and distributed the film in America. The film features the voices of Julia SawalhaMel GibsonTimothy SpallPhil DanielsTony Haygarth and Miranda RichardsonChicken Run received widespread critical acclaim and was a box office hit, grossing $224 million worldwide against its $45 million budget.
It is a pastiche of and homage to The Great Escape; the chicken coop in the opening shot deliberately looks like a POW internment camp, complete with what looks like a guard emplacement (it's actually a water tank).
The plot centers on a band of chickens who see a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pot pies.
source: http://dreamworks.wikia.com/wiki/Chicken_Run
This film was really fun to watch. I mean like, chickens trying to learn how to fly? Ha! I'm just kidding, anything's possible when you believe and make it happen. Aside from comedy, I thought there was a bit of suspense whenever the chickens try to escape a tragedy from happening. Ginger is quite strong and clever for a chicken and she does everything she can to save the whole chicken clan from slaughter. That says a lot—that she truly cares for each one.

 I was a bit pissed at Rocky for not telling them immediately that he can’t actually fly-- that none of them can, but at least he introduced to them the idea of catapulting out of there. I just get scared for them and I don’t know why, it’s just a movie. I had the feeling though, after watching the film, that I don’t think I’ll be eating chicken for a while.
Oh God, please no.





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