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Aardman Animations, the British clay-animation studio that created a cult sensation (and won three Academy awards) with its short subjects featuring Wallace and Gromit, presents its first feature film, a mixture of comedy and adventure. Mrs. Tweedy (voice of Miranda Richardson) operates a chicken farm, where most of the birds have resigned themselves to a short and uneventful life of producing eggs and ending up as the main course of someone's Sunday dinner. But when Rocky (voice of Mel Gibson), a rooster from America, arrives on the farm, things begin to change. Rocky soon finds romance with a hen named Ginger (voice of Julia Sawalha) who longs for a better life and has been trying to find a way out of the farm for some time; together they devise a plan to escape to freedom. However, Rocky and Ginger soon find themselves racing against the clock when Mrs. Tweedy decides it's time to turn the entire flock into chicken pies. Nick Park, director of the Wallace and Gromit shorts, co-directed Chicken Run with Peter Lord, who produced several Aardman projects and created animation for the TV series "Pee-Wee's Playhouse". The voice cast also includes Jane Horrocks, Phil Daniels, and Timothy Spall. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Subtitles/Audio
Special Features
Audio Commentary With Peter Lord & Nick Park
Poultry In Motion: The Making of Chicken Run
The Hatching Of Chicken Run
Read Along
Dvd-rom
Trailers & TV Spot
Trailer 1
Trailer 2
TV Spot
Sneak Preview
Production Notes
Cast & Crew
Cast Bios
Phil Daniels
Lynn Ferguson
Mel Gibson
Tony Haygarth
Jane Horrocks
Miranda Richardson
Julia Sawalha
Timothy Spall
Imelda Staunton
Benjamin Whitrow
Crew Bios
Dave Sproxton
Peter Lord
Nick Park
Jake Eberts
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Michael Rose
Karey Kirkpatrick
John Powell
Harry Gregson-williams
Carla Shelley
Mark Solomon
Lyod Price
Dave Alex Riddet
Egg Hunt
Chapters
Side #1
0. Scene Index
1. No Chicken Escapes From Tweedy's Farm [4:21]
2. Opening Titles [2:49]
3. Eggless Edwina [3:41]
4. Nick and Fetcher At Your Service [1:44]
5. They're Organized [1:48]
6. Operation Cover-Up [3:42]
7. The Lone Free Ranger [4:44]
8. Teach Us To Fly [4:15]
9. Poultry In Motion [4:13]
10. Special Delivery [3:46]
11. We Need More Thrust [4:37]
12. Roll Call [3:57]
13. Shake Those Tail Feathers [4:03]
14. It's A Pie Machine [2:02]
15. Chickens Go In, Pies Come Out [4:26]
16. I Don't Want To Be A Pie [4:00]
17. Rocky's Secret Is Revealed [4:25]
18. Building The Plane [4:15]
19. The Escape [2:37]
20. Ready For Take Off [3:36]
21. We're Flying [2:48]
22. Bombs Away [1:54]
23. Chikin Sanctuary [1:18]
24. The Chicken Or The Egg (End Credits) [5:04]
Features
Director's commentary with Peter Lord and Nick Park
DVD-ROM: two interactive games, desktop icons and pets, calculator, screensavers, and poster sets
Read along to the script
Two behind-the-scenes featurettes
Screaming chicken panic button
Trailers, bios, production notes, and other surprises
Additional Dialogue - Mark Burton
Additional Dialogue - John O'Farrell
Art Director - Tim Farrington
Associate Producer - Lenny Young
Casting - Patsy Pollock
Cinematographer - Tristan Oliver
Cinematographer - Frank Passingham
Composer (Music Score) - Harry Gregson-Williams
Composer (Music Score) - John Powell
Costume Designer - Sally Taylor
Digital Effects - Computer Film Co.
Executive Producer - Jake Eberts
Executive Producer - Jeffrey Katzenberg
Executive Producer - Michael Rose
First Assistant Director - Fred de Bradeny
Line Producer - Carla Shelley
Production Designer - Phil Lewis
Production Designer - Jan Sanger
Re-Recording Mixer - Adrian Rhodes
Screen Story - Nick Park
Screen Story - Peter Lord
Supervising Animator - Loyd Price
Supervising Cinematographer - Dave Alex Riddett
Supervising Sound Editor - Graham Headicar
Supervising Sound Editor - James Mather
Technical Director - Tom Barnes
This film marked the smashing feature-debut of Aardman Animations, the Oscar-winning model-animation studio from Britain that specializes in "Claymation." Co-directors Nick Park and Peter Lord have eliminated the jerky motion traditionally associated with the process through the use of high-tech models and computer-aided filming methods; the painstaking methodology results in a triumph of a family film, seamlessly blending a sly script, intelligent pacing, memorable visuals, and joyful vocal performances by stars Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, and Julia Sawalha. The barometer of a successful "kids picture" is whether there are enough laughs to keep adults entertained, and Chicken Run is Grade A on all counts. A box-office success, the film was also a triumph for the animation division of Dreamworks Pictures, the U.S. studio financing the project, which quickly re-upped with Aardman for another feature project. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
