Ginger insists he demonstrates flying the next day, but Mr. After Ginger and Rocky get into an argument, Rocky holds a morale-boosting dance party during which it is revealed that his wing is healed.

When Ginger notices that the Tweedys have increased their food supplies while ignoring that some chickens have stopped laying eggs, she deduces that the Tweedys are planning to kill all of them for meat.

Tweedy hopes will turn the farm into a full-scale, automated, and profitable chicken pie factory. That evening, the Tweedys have strange boxes delivered to them they contain the parts to a machine that Mrs. Inspired by Rocky's apparent flying abilities, Ginger begs him to help teach her and the other chickens to fly, so they can escape. One day, Ginger witnesses an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes glide over the coop's fences and crash-land the chickens put his sprained wing in a cast and hide him from the Tweedys, who were promised a handsome reward by Rocky's owner for his return. Tweedy suspects the chickens are organized and plotting resistance, but his wife dismisses his theories while being frustrated with making minuscule profits. Led by the rebellious Ginger, the chickens constantly devise new ways to try to escape but are always caught. Tweedy, who kill and eat any chicken that is no longer able to lay eggs. In post- World War II Yorkshire, a flock of chickens live on an egg farm structured like a prisoner-of-war camp. Ī sequel, titled Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, is set to be released on Netflix in December 2023. Released to critical acclaim, Chicken Run was also a commercial success, grossing over $220 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history and the biggest success in DreamWorks Animation history until Shrek in 2001 doubled it.

The plot centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners want to turn them into chicken pies. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. Aardman's first feature-length film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and based on an original story by Lord and Park. Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated adventure comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation.

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