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Aardman has always been the British underdog for stop motion animation. But the movies did cause the company some hassle and working with the big animation studios at America. Its surprising a movie made so long ago and does it holds up well today? I watch chicken Run on Disney+ and the first time Disney mention their big mocking company DreamWorks. Lets see what this movie offers: Animation: For a movie over 20 years old it still looks surprisingly good. Its more scaled and feels big like the huge lorry in front of the chickens as an example. They used real vegetables and the fire add on to it makes it feels more believable as a visual perspective. They used a lot of zoom in and out camera angles. I love the plane and the machine scene because how fast it is and how feels real. I like how grounded it feels .I notice that they already done it before like the Wallace and Gromit shorts in the past. The funny: The comedy is pretty funny , all of the jokes landed. Not as funny as other DreamWorks movies , its no Shrek or Over the hedge level of comedy but still I had good laughs of it. Some of the comedy is dialogue based like "its all in my head" or like a fish" Nick: Like a fish? You stupid Norbert" and "Ladies, please. Let's not lose our heads". "Lose our heads?" "AH"- Plot + characters: Its start off with Ginger trying to escape but fails and caught by Mr Tweedy. The liar reveal is just okay but hey at least it made a little sense then Shark Tale. Its a prison escape can of story but the problem I had with it is that in the third act of the movie it became very formulate at times like the liar reveal ,chickens escape and Mrs Tweedy getting destroyed , yeah , yeah all of that and they go hard with the cliché's. The liar reveal maybe cliché but I like how its subtle and cinematic and not like spell it out like Shark Tale. I think that's what Aardman is good at, being subtle. Ginger: She's an okay protagonist. She is I had a problem with her is that she has no flaws to her. I'm not saying she's a Mary sue but I found it harder to be engage and relate to her. Almost every DreamWorks protagonist has a flaw even the later Aardman Protagonist has flaws like Pirate Captain. I don't hate her she's in a chicken farm which chickens get killed and wants freedom. Hints the name Chicken Run. Rocky the cocky: He is also an okay written character: In the scene where he tricks the rats by giving his eggs to the rats even know that they know Nick said its a lady thing . I like that Rocky isn't an idiot. His motive is to get freedom is similar to Ginger's motive to get away from the circus but why. Rocky never explains his experience with the circus and why is he afraid of it? The ring master asked Mrs Tweedy to go and look for him and he looks nice. (For some reason he never and his fine with that and somehow found Rocky right in front of him) I wish we get to see more development for Rocky. Like I said liar revel trope is done cliché and where is Rocky going and what desire he wants? Mrs Tweedy: She's an okay antagonist because I like she is a threating antagonist to the chickens. She constantly hit Mr Tweedy every time he say something and she ignore him every word, even the dogs are afraid of her. WW2 Representation: I notice that there has been WW references mainly Fowler who said to Rocky "pushy Americans always late and overs*x and over here"! (I didn't made that up the movie did) It is true in WW2 Britain is face alone to fight the Germans and it didn't went well so the Americans and Canada help to stop the Germans. I think it fits well with the concept of the movie. Final thoughts: I think Chicken Run is an enjoyable movie with some good laughs , if you put it on for your family they will have a good time. it's decent but not amazing sadly. It's surprising this is the highest grossing stop motion movie (over 220 million at the box office) but its not as good as other ones that came after it. So that's everything.