Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
2023
***
Director: Sam Fell
Cast: Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, David Bradley, Jane Horrocks, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Josie Sedgwick-Davies
After escaping Tweedy's farm, Ginger and Rocky (and the rest of the hens) live peacefully on an island. One day, their curious daughter Molly ventures out and is taken to a high-tech nugget factory. Aardman's Chicken Run (2000) was a hilarious and joyously inventive animation. 23 years later, we get this frustratingly formulaic and frankly unnecessary sequel, which has lost of most of what made the original so loveable, namely humour, originality, visual imagination, and most of the voice cast.
