The next day, Ginger finds Rocky has left, leaving behind part of a poster that shows that he is in fact part of a 'chicken cannonball' act with no ability to fly on his own.

Rocky saves her and sabotages the machine, buying them time to warn the chickens and plan an escape from the farm. Ginger insists that he demonstrate flying the next day, but Mr Tweedy finishes assembling the machine and puts Ginger in it for a test run. 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 the Tweedys increase the chickens' food rations and ignore the decline in egg production, Ginger deduces that the couple's new plan is to fatten the chickens for slaughter. One evening, a load of equipment is delivered to the farm, containing the parts for a chicken pie machine that Mrs Tweedy has ordered as part of a plan to convert the farm into a profitable pie-making factory. 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 night, 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. Mr Tweedy suspects the chickens are organised 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. The farm is run by the cruel Mrs Tweedy and her submissive husband, Mr Tweedy, who kill and eat any chicken that is no longer able to lay eggs. In the countryside of Yorkshire, a flock of chickens live on an egg farm structured like a prisoner-of-war camp. Its Netflix release will follow its world premiere at the 67th BFI London Film Festival on 14 October 2023, which will also see preview screenings taking place at UK cinemas at the same time. Ī sequel, titled Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, is set to be released on Netflix on 15 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 DreamWorks Animation's biggest success until Shrek in 2001 doubled it. Set in the countryside of Yorkshire, 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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