The stakes are both enjoyably high and simultaneously very silly, and it keeps the film in that same sweet spot that made the first one so watchable for children and adults alike.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 11, 2024

Our favourite chicken revolutionary returns in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget for another life or death fight against evil, meat-hungry humans.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget ... feels like a referendum on children's animation, a call for well-crafted kids' movies built on compelling characters, smart themes, and actual jokes instead of cynical, synergistic products.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2024

This latest adventure is every bit as well-crafted, cleverly written, and stuffed with gallinaceous puns as its predecessor.

| Original Score: B | Jul 17, 2024

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is a film that is very much about getting old, and that is perfect theme for a franchise the waited 23 years to come back.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is so passable in every way that it could be voiced entirely by one person, and it would still be entirely watchable. It won’t offend, surprise, or inspire in any way, but it isn’t boring, either.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2024

The action element of the film has the enjoyable verve of the original, particularly when the mechanics of the nugget-maker are involved, but the lack of a tight focus on characters in one place makes the emotional heart of the matter more diffuse.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 30, 2024

[Dawn of the Nugget] does repeat some old hits, but it is a wacky, wild and ever so slightly scary follow-up, that has laughs and tail feather shaking delights over a rather pro-vegan story of trauma, freedom and family.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2024

The rumours of Aardman’s demise — the animation studio, not anyone with that surname — have been somewhat exaggerated.

| Jan 9, 2024

Aardman, founded over 50 years ago, is well known for its unique brand of good-natured British humor and expert stop-motion animation techniques. All of that is on display again in this fine sequel that is just as funny and engaging as the first one.

| Original Score: B | Jan 7, 2024

Some of the simple beauty from more than two decades ago has been lost in the constant complexity and the busy nature of Nugget.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 30, 2023

Full of off-beat Aardman charm, this family adventure is a lot of fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 30, 2023

It’s pleasingly daft, very British and not exactly memorable.

| Dec 29, 2023

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget only holds a fraction of what made the original animated feature great, while the rest is a disappointingly forgettable and unoriginal film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 29, 2023

"Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget" serves up a tasty sequel.

| Original Score: 3 stars | Dec 27, 2023

I enjoyed seeing the characters again but it's also highly forgettable and nothing I will remember going forward like the original film

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 25, 2023

There are some fine new villains. The voice work rumbles with buttered-crumpet charm. Middle-ranking Aardman is better than almost anyone else on top form.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 23, 2023

This Netflix-financed romp blessedly preserves the original’s thumbprint-smeared, dad-joke-peppered charms and ignores recent trends toward bloodless kids’ fare in favor of another jerry-rigged thrill ride.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 20, 2023

Dawn of the Nugget is a notable sequel to Aardman's gem. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 20, 2023

Though like most follow-ups it doesn’t quite match the fun of the original, “Nugget” is an amusingly droll sequel that fans will enthusiastically welcome, especially after nearly a quarter-century wait.

| Original Score: B | Dec 20, 2023