Chicken Run (2000)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/France/USA

Feature Film

Directors: Peter Lord, Nick Park

Writers: Karey Kirkpatrick, Peter Lord, Nick Park

Cinematographers: Tristan Oliver, Frank Passingham

Composers: Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell

Cast: Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Tony Haygarth, Benjamin Whitrow, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Jane Horrocks

Though hamstrung considerably by the horribly inexpressive faces of its feathered protagonists, Lord and Park’s stop motion feature debut, which follows the escape attempts of a coop full of chickens, aided by a brash American circus rooster, who hope to escape the nefarious Mrs. Tweedy's new pie machine, still makes for some good, parodic entertainment. Iain.Stott