DreamWorks Pictures
Directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(DVD, DreamWorks)
At a chicken farm resembling a WWII POW camp, the hens plot an escape. A cockerel crash lands in their pen, and believing he can fly they hide him from the farm owners. Feigning a broken wing, the cocky American flyer puts off training the hens for flight, until he throws a party and reveals his wing is not broken after all. He flees the next day leaving the hens to fend for themselves. They come up with the idea to build an airplane and manage to do so from parts around the farm. The cockerel shows up just in time to help them escape in the big, loud finale. The farm yard, surrounded by barbed wire, with patrolling dogs and evil human overlords, made this feel almost like a concentration camp for chickens. I found it terribly bleak and depressing, with a formulaic plot and characters I did not like.
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