![]() Meanwhile, Peter Lord, Carla Shelley, Karey Kirkpatrick, and Nick Park have returned as executive producers. Sam Fell, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Aardman Animation's Flushed Away, is directing the poultry picture from a script by Karey Kirkpatrick, John O'Farrell, and Rachel Tunnard, with Steve Pegram and Leyla Hobart both on board as producers. But back on the mainland, the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat, inspiring Ginger and her team to break back in. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger's happy ending seems complete. ![]() The new film sees Ginger and the rest of the flock living out their dreams on a peaceful island sanctuary, far from the dangers of the human world. Jane Horrocks is returning as Babs alongside Imelda Staunton's Bunty and Lynn Ferguson's Mac. Fry, though it's worth noting that not all of the original voice stars have flown the nest. ![]() And Ginger the chicken leader is a delightful character: brave, smart and devoted to saving her friends, (nice contrast with the self-satisfied Bunty, who initially refuses to participate in the escape plan because she feels safe herself).Other new additions to the coop include Josie Sedgwick-Davies as Frizzle, David Bradley as Fowler, Romesh Ranganathan as Nick, Daniel Mays as Fetcher, and Nick Mohammed as Dr. Netflix just confirmed that a Chicken Run sequel is on its way, exactly 20 years after the original film was released. Some pretty sophisticated humor and references to old movies, (notably "The Great Escape"). Check out the full preview This guide may also work well as a sub plan for your substitute teacher. Can they be brave enough to be a chicken, and ask with Babs, "Are those the only choices?" This 5 page movie guide with handouts accompanies the film ' Chicken Run (2000)'. The binary view presents us with false choices that ultimately are no choice at all.Ĭhicken Run offers a great opportunity to talk with your kids about times they're pushed to do something wrong or cruel, or simply unwise. Yet this binary view often keeps us from finding true solutions, and achieving meaningful understanding of "the other". When he catches Molly and her end is near, Ginger and her team decide to leave their freedom behind, travel to the mainland, break into Dr. Fry’ plans to turn all the chickens in his lab into chicken nuggets. We humans have a stubborn, but pernicious need to divide the world into 2 opposing camps: you're either for us or against us. Just when news arrives of a new deadly menace plotting the demise of all chickens on the mainland. To which one chicken, the sweetly spacey Babs meekly replies, "Are those the only choices?" At one point, Ginger, exhorting her followers to risk it all issues the rallying cry, "We either die free chickens, or we die trying!" (Wild cheers!!) ![]() A coopful of chickens, led by the fearless Ginger, conspire to escape the farm before they are all converted to pies. I'm not sure what else to say, I think its fine for kids ages 5 and up.Ĭhicken Run is a sadly under-appreciated movie. But otherwise the only other scary part is the machine that turns chickens into pies, there are some blades and weapons that might scare younger kids. Chicken Run details the miserable lives of a clan of chickens being withheld within a sinister dairy farm in 1950s England. There is also a good message that you should really use teamwork, when the main rooster doesn't understand that, and says "Everybody listen to me", and is very full of himself as a professional. And the hard theme to understand is that one of the chickens gets killed with an ax which may be confusing to some young kids that she got killed. When they are learning to fly, one of the mice says "flippin' hell" which would be considered a swear. It is really funny, but there are a couple of swears, the main rooster pulls out a tail feather and calls it a "cocktail", implying that the feathers come from his butt, with the first 4 letters being a swear. Parents should understand that this is a great movie with all the claymation, and action making it probably Aardman's best movie.
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