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www.cinema-scene.com - : There have been so many great achievements in animation over the years and Chicken Run is one of the best. Nick Parks (all the Wallace and Gromit shorts) and Peter Lord (Adam, Wat's Pig) have taken so long to work the clay perfectly, that the story remains finely tuned. Chicken Run is even better than the shorts, the best thing out of Aardman yet. more...
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3.5/
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : In a more conventional movie, the plot would proceed on autopilot. Not in ''Chicken Run,'' which has a whimsical and sometimes darker view of the possibilities. One of the movie's charms is the way it lets many of the characters be true eccentrics (it's set in England in the 1950s and sometimes offers a taste of those sly old Alec Guinness comedies). more...
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3.5/
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www.apolloguide.com - : Not only is Chicken Run a formidable human achievement (no computers – these figures are moved through space one frame at a time, by hand), but it is an artistic one as well. Each scene is as beautifully framed and elegantly crafted as a Stanley Kubrick film. The characterizations are so truthful that one feels more than a twinge of empathy for Mr. Tweedy, who spends most of the film trying to catch or kill our favourite characters. more...
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88/1
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