Every night for many years, Ginger made a new escape attempt. This hen, who has spent her whole life in Mother Tweed’s fenced farm, dreams of the great outdoors and green valleys. His thirst for freedom takes on an urgency every time he sees the least productive of his peers headed for the chopping block.
While all her friends seem to have given up and accepted their fate, Ginger sees her hope reborn when Rocky, a lonely rooster, crashes into a chicken coop during a flight. Maybe this talker, a little full of himself, will be able to teach the poor prisoners how to steal before Mother Tweed completes her monstrous machine for making…chicken patties!
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Directed in 2000 by the acclaimed Nick Park and Peter Lord, Chicken Run is the first feature film from the prestigious British animation studio Aardman. After 28 years of honing their craft with excellent short and medium-length films, these model filmmakers with a keen sense of detail, irrepressible humor and, above all, indomitable patience, are finally seeing the fruits of their efforts come to fruition. dark rooms.
Specialists in Stop-Motion (or frame-by-frame animation, a noble but sophisticated technique that requires extreme endurance), Aardman artists made themselves famous thanks to the small adventures of their unscripted mascots: Wallace and Gromit.
Even if they dedicated a feature film worthy of their name five years later, they still decided to innovate their first movie on the big screen and in doing so offered the audience a masterful parody of the Great Escape… with chickens!
Equipped with a script brilliant in its simplicity, a cast of highly engaging characters, a blistering pace and perfectly balanced humor that never forgets to fade away to unleash emotion when needed, this first cinematic effort from Park and Lord stands out. Like a real masterpiece.
This farming adventure, with its excellent performance, is immediately worth discovering (or rediscovering) as a family while you wait for the sequel – Chicken Run: the Nuggets Menace – which will be available on Netflix from December 15.
What will you like…
- The numerous escape plans devised by Ginger and the spirit of unity that emerges from the small group
- Jokes that keep popping up throughout the movie, especially by the excellent Colonel Pollard, the lovely Bernadette, and the two rats, Ricky and Ruck.
What could be bothering them…
- The scene on the chopping block at the beginning of the film, when one of the chickens (who no longer lays eggs) has its head cut off. A sequence I recommend you save for the little ones, even if everything happens more or less off-camera
- Terrible Mother Tweed, truly evil, even if her cruelty is offset by her poor husband’s stupidity
(Re)discover the trailer for ‘Chicken Run: The Nuggets Menace’…
Source: Allocine
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