{"id":42041,"date":"2001-05-15T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2001-05-15T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42041"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:02:55","slug":"chicken-run-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2001\/05\/15\/chicken-run-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Run (2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chickenrun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chickenrun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chickenrun.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chickenrun-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/chickenrun-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a>This is a cute story. Mel Gibson never ceases to pull in a fun performance. He&#8217;s energetic and realistic in this movie. He doesn&#8217;t have a humongous part or the starring role yet he pulls in an excellent performance. He&#8217;s hilarious and very funny. The dialogue is hilarious and the character set-up is great. We get to see the characters and their flaws which is great. The story takes place in a rural England farm where this woman named Ms. Tweedy grows chickens and sells their eggs.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The problem is if one of the chickens don&#8217;t lay eggs they die and become dinner. Now the chickens are trying to escape but can&#8217;t, due to the guard dogs and patrolmen. The chickens try and try and try but cannot escape from the farm. One day a rooster named &#8220;Rocky the Flying Rooster&#8221; (played by Mel Gibson) gets accidentally launched into the chicken coop and misleads the hens into thinking he can fly. Now they must devise a new plan to escape. But Ms. Tweedy has a new machine.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one that makes Chicken Pot Pies. Time is of the essence now, and they must escape before the machine is installed. This is a very good cartoon. Unfortunately what ruined this cartoon for me was that I&#8217;m not a big fan of stop motion. I never have been, which is what prevented this from getting a solid ten and dropped it to a nine. Another factor is that this is a very dark movie for a cartoon intended for younger audiences. The plot is a bit slow in the beginning which dropped the cartoon another point from ten.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this movie is animated entirely with stop motion ruined the enjoyment for me while watching this. Aside from that, I had a great time with the wacky characters and kid-friendly action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a cute story. Mel Gibson never ceases to pull in a fun performance. He&#8217;s energetic and realistic in this movie. He doesn&#8217;t have a humongous part or the starring role yet he pulls in an excellent performance. He&#8217;s hilarious and very funny. The dialogue is hilarious and the character set-up is great. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71,99,219,349,989],"class_list":["post-42041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42043,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42041\/revisions\/42043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}