Chicken Run
As much as I like chickens, I didn't like "Chicken Run". Several
chickens on a chicken farm decide to escape. You can't blame them
- eventually, they will be killed and made into chicken pot pies
- yuck. They come up with several harebrained schemes and run
into a few problems before ultimately succeeding at their mission.
(And don't tell me that was a plot spoiler - unless your brain
is chicken-sized, you must have figured out the ending the minute
you saw the previews.)
Ok, so Mel Gibson voices one of the characters. Here's the problem
with selling "Chicken Run" on that merit: The producers did this
backwards. I would much rather look at Mel Gibson's body and listen
to a chicken clucking that look at an animated chicken and listen
to Mel Gibson's voice. Aside from that, "Chicken Run" offers nothing
profound in the way of scripting. This film even closes with two
mice debating the age-old question: Which came first, the chicken
or the egg? Everything else in this movie has been done before,
too.
