On one hand, the Toy Story of stop-motion animation. It’s an absolute masterpiece. On the other hand, how did the Tweedys not notice the chickens were wearing clothes and jewelry?

| Dec 6, 2023

With a scene-stealing ensemble, the characters shine for their charisma and are led by two protagonists with hilarious chemistry. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 9, 2023

Chicken Run, if anything, offers an alternative to a desolate world that many of us are increasingly afraid of.

| Mar 15, 2021

So great.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 14, 2019

Its plump chickens maintain that strange, haptic quality that makes you yearn to reach out and squeeze them.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 20, 2015

Even without Wallace and Gromit, most of the trademark joys are here: the compound of squashy creatures and heavy machinery, the wide, open-ended rictus of a toothy smile, and the great Parkian gulp.

| Jul 20, 2015

It coaxes you to laugh and cry, flatters your intelligence, and practically guarantees a cheap night out: at dinner afterward, no one's going to be ordering anything but salad.

| Jul 20, 2015

It's a warm-hearted and amusing entertainment that your children will enjoy.

| Jun 29, 2015

Chickens are inherently funny, like nature's idea of a very practical joke. Park and Lord have just improved the old rubber chicken gag, making it movable, turning it into something closer to who we are and what we know as humans.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jun 29, 2015

Chicken Run is a charmingly conceived entertainment. But it's a little bit twee.

| Aug 24, 2014

What gives this movie its oddly strong grip on a viewer's heart is a physical tenderness inseparable from the nature of claymation.

| Aug 24, 2014

The claymation comedy Chicken Run is eggsactly what the doctor ordered. It's a witty, high-spirited adventure that will appeal to moviegoers of all ages. Call it chicken soup for the funny bone.

| Aug 24, 2014

The first feature film from England's Aardman Animation, and the first truly terrific film to be released by DreamWorks.

| Aug 24, 2014

Most of the time Chicken Run entertains, instructs, involves and enchants.

| Aug 24, 2014

Run to Chicken Run. This clay-animation comedy is the most entertaining animal story since Babe.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 24, 2014

The film is brilliantly voiced across the board, with special notice to Mel Gibson as Rocky and Julia Sawalha as Ginger.

| Aug 24, 2014

The sly, sardonic flight of fancy known as Chicken Run is a delightful epic of fowl deeds, quests for freedom and poultry heroics from the off-kilter English cartoon house, Aardman Animation.

| Aug 24, 2014

Like Wallace & Gromit, it's a paean to British eccentricity, equal parts cluelessness and hopefulness, full of English slang and dry Brit humor.

| Aug 24, 2014

Indeed, it's the best movie comedy to come out of England since Monty Python packed up the circus.

| Aug 24, 2014

Chicken Run contains some gorgeous, destined-to-be-classic set pieces, and this is where the Aardman production team flex their animation muscles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2014