Chicken Run
2000
*****
Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park
Cast: Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Tony Haygarth, Jane Horrocks, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Imelda Staunton, Benjamin Whitrow
In the 1950s, a determined hen leads her fellow chickens in a bid to escape the farm before they are turned into chicken pies by the sinister Mrs. Tweedy. Mel Gibson voices an American rooster who is not all that he claims to be. The brilliant first full length animation from the makers of Wallace and Gromit is a cornucopia of visual and verbal gags, and prison film references. Followed by a 2023 sequel Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget.
