A chicken farm at night. The sky is clear and the moon is high in the sky. A chicken is using a spoon to dig through the Earth. She and her friends are trying to escape. A fat man and his vicious dogs stalk the farm. They catch the chicken. The man sternley tells the chicken: "No chicken escapes from Tweedy's Farm." Welcome to the epic film that is Chicken Run.

 

  Alright Chicken Run! Well this claymation film is brought to us by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the guys behind the Wallace and Gromit short films. Hey you know what? Maybe we'll review the Wallace and Gromit feature film someday. Anyway I saw this film when I was a wee little lad when it first came out in theaters. It still manages to amaze me to this day.What's this movie about? Chickens trying to escape a Yorkshire chicken farm. It takes place in the fiftes.

 

  The film starts off as we noted with our main character Ginger trying to escape Tweedy's Chicken Farm. That fatass is Mr. Tweedy and that bitch he's married to is Mrs. Tweedy. Mr. Tweedy is a paranoid schizonphrenic man who has delusions that the chickens are organized and they're trying to escape the farm. What the hell is this man smoking? Honestly? I mean chickens rising up against humans! Poppycock! I'll have you know when my grandfather was young his father owned a chicken farm! And those chickens never tried to escape.

 

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  Wait, the chickens are organized and they are trying to escape? And these chickens have hands and wear clothing? Holy shit this movie is going to be epic. 

 

  So anyway there's a few important chickens (and others). Ginger is our main character and she's leading the revolt against the damn dirty humans, Babs is a ditzy little thing who loves to knit, Bunty is a fat bitch, Mac is a scientist who creates all sorts of shit, Fowler is a retired army rooster, and Nick and Fetcher are two scheming mice salesmen.

 

  Anyway so the Mrs. Tweedy comes in for the morning egg inspection when she discovers that one chicken hasn't layed any eggs in a whole week. This is not good. The chicken who's name is Edwina is taken to the shed and turned into dinner. Yum, when do we get to eat? I'm starving! I, uh mean we must not speak ill of the dead.

 

  Mrs. Tweedy decides that she's sick of making miniscule profits and at that moment discovers a pamphlet in the mail asking her if she's tired of just that. It proceeds to tell her how she can turn her chicken farm into a gold mine by buying this machine that makes... Chicken pies! The gravy encrusted horrors! You know this movie actually inspired me to make a homemade chicken pot pie. 

 

  You know what? It's all the food chain. Animals eat each other in the wild all the time, but the way we systamatecially kill animals is just plain wrong! That's why Mrs. Tweedy is a bitch that should burn in the firey pits of hell! 

 

  Anyway Ginger is trying to motivate everyone to rise up against the opression, but the chickens are beginning to feel that it's hopeless. Then an explosion in the distance and a rooster named Rocky lands in the farm! Apparently he's from the United States and he can fly! Ginger decides that she wants Rocky to teach them to fly. So she puts up his poster to motivate everyone (the bottom of the poster is mysteriously missing). Rocky claims he's a lone free ranger. Chicken shit.

 

  Anyway a man from the circus comes looking for Rocky and Ginger hides Rocky with Fowler who refuses to have anything to do with "Yanks". The next day Rocky begins to teach the chickens how to "fly", but things don't go to well.

 

  Meanwhile Mrs. Tweedy gets her death machine up and running and singles out Ginger to be their test subject. Rock jumps into action to save Ginger! Also Rocky's wing has healed so now he can give them a flying demonstartion tommorow. Alright the pie machine scene is awesome. It really shows off what claymation can do (I just love claymation, there needs to be more claymation!) and it's an intense scene! Plus the chickens are fighting a machine that makes chicken pot pies. Mull that over for a second. 

 

  Rocky manages to save Ginger and Fowler gives him a medal. However Rocky runs off leaving behind a part of the poster. Turns out he's shot out of a cannon. Well, duh! Chickens can't fucking fly! Jesus fucking Christ almighty! Well the chickens find a picture of an airplane in Fowler's army trunk and decide they're going to build an airplane.

 

  Meanwhile Mr. Tweedy is trying to fix the machine.

 

  Now I want to mention two characters for a moment. Nick and Fetcher. These two mice salesmen are the ones who have been supplying Ginger with the nessecary machine parts to build all her contraptions. They love eggs and Rocky once promised them he'd lay them eggs for them. They called him a sucker, but they're the suckers. Gotta' love British humour.

 

  Anyway the airplane gets up and running, but apparently Fowler can't fly. He was the mascot of the army, they would never let chickens behind complex machinery! Anyway there's a huge airplane scene, Rocky returns and Mrs. Tweedy gets her ass handed to her. The chickens live happily ever after.

 

  This movie is fucking awesome. The claymation is wonderful and the creators are defintley experts in their field. It's a great story with great pacing and of course some British humour. Overall Chicken Run makes me run with joy. 

 

  You know, maybe in the near future I might review Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit...