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Post by cannibalchris on Jun 28, 2007 23:40:01 GMT -5
Chicken Run tells the humorous story of a band of chickens who seek escape from their coop before their owners, the unambitious yet inconveniently oafish and suspicious egg farmer Mr. Tweedy and his greedy, overbearing wife, make them all into chicken pies. The film is an homage to the World War II prison films of the 1950s and 1960s (particularly The Great Escape, Stalag 17, and The Birdmen), but it alludes to numerous other films, including Braveheart, the Indiana Jones films, and Star Trek. (Stalag 17 and the latter 3 films or film series were all released by Paramount Pictures, currently sister studio to DreamWorks after Viacom bought the latter in 2005.)
The star roles in the film are those of Ginger (voiced by Julia Sawalha), a hen who has absolute faith that the chickens can fly out of the coop if only they train hard enough, and Rocky Rhodes (voiced by Mel Gibson), a rooster whom Ginger believes can fly, but who keeps the secret of his flightlessness from her for much of the film. Mrs. Tweedy (voiced by Miranda Richardson) is the nefarious, grasping farm wife whose exasperation at low profits from egg sales leads her to reinvent her farm as a chicken pie factory, while her husband does all he can to prevent the chickens from (as he rightly believes they are) escaping.
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Haven't seen this in FOREVER!!!
I Mac, so cute!
9/10
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Post by RacinFan44 on Jun 29, 2007 18:55:22 GMT -5
8/10 Good movie. I liked it!
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Post by cannibalchris on Jun 29, 2007 18:55:53 GMT -5
Fave character?
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Post by RacinFan44 on Jul 5, 2007 23:12:38 GMT -5
Don't have one.
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Post by cannibalchris on Aug 15, 2007 19:39:06 GMT -5
Mine was Mac
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Post by wowposter on Nov 2, 2008 22:50:17 GMT -5
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