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

| Mar 15, 2021

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

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

| 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

This first feature by Nick Park and Peter Lord, the team that brought you Wallace and Gromit, is a diabolically witty piece of work, a haymaker.

| Aug 4, 2013

Apart from looking like no other type of animated film, Chicken Run stands alone in its unwavering determination not to play down to the kiddies.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2013

Chicken Run isn't just chock-full of references to classic prison-break movies and some witty inside Hollywood jokes, but is filled with a secret ingredient sadly missing from its super-digitized, merchandise-driven counterparts: heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 4, 2013

It is not only an amazing technical accomplishment, it's also the wittiest and best-voiced animated movie to come along in years.

| Aug 4, 2013

Chicken Run boasts the most delicious collection of desperately funny Brits since The Full Monty. Poultry has never been so stuffed with personality.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 4, 2013

The finale and a scene set inside the pie-making machinery prove that the Rube Goldberg formula is infallible, and the puns -- another staple of crossover animation -- range from "fowl" to "poultry in motion."

| Aug 4, 2013

The level of invention on display, from the vividly detailed models and figurines to the gallery of memorable supporting characters, is astonishing at any length.

| Aug 4, 2013

Fab animation from Wallace and Gromit creator.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 22, 2010

Exactly the picker-upper this macho-movie summer needs.

| Sep 3, 2008

It'd be churlish to carp about this triumph of craftsmanlike technique.

| Feb 9, 2006

The poultry cast are capable of an extraordinary range of expression, especially during the sad or mildly scary scenes.

| Dec 2, 2002

May not maintain quite the same frantic level of invention as the Wallace and Gromit shorts, but it has more heart.

| Original Score: A- | May 8, 2002

Fans of the more subversive Wallace and Gromit tales are almost bound to be somewhat disappointed by this safer, more mainstream effort.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 5, 2002