| 100 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's aimed at adults as much as children, with jokes that work on multiple levels, and contraptions.
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| 100 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
People who have seen it seem to be crazy about it.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It will be the most talked-about comedy of summer.
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| 100 |
Washington Post
The visual comedy is brilliant.
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| 100 |
Portland Oregonian
It's a purely winning film.
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| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor
The suspense isn't exactly breathtaking, but there are some mighty fine laughs in this clever Claymation cartoon.Family fun for all.
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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
A delightful, perceptive, funny, detail-perfect fable.
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| 90 |
Mr. Showbiz
Flock (don't walk) to the theater to see Chicken Run.
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| 90 |
Dallas Observer
Gleefully blurs the line between species. Vive la révolution!
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| 90 |
The New York Times
Doesn't try to cram messages of uplift down its audience's gullet. It's a great eggscape from banality.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
Never loses its priceless stamp of individuality. Reduced to its essence, this is a joke told by a person, not a corporation--and that makes all the difference.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
A delirious fable about every creature's need for espace.
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| 90 |
Newsweek
It starts quietly, introducing its splendid gallery of fowl, rats and humans, then builds and builds until it achieves full comic liftoff.
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| 90 |
Variety
Technically superb and witty in an old-fashioned, veddy British way that will delight many adults but will sail over the heads of young audiences.
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| 90 |
Film.com
Finally, there's a female action hero for the summer of 2000, and she's a . . . chicken. But a chicken to believe in.
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| 90 |
Film.com
All but guarantees that you'll want to see Chicken Run more than once.
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| 90 |
Salon.com
Michael Sragow
This movie's cornucopia of humorous riffs and stunts never fails to amuse or enthrall because it never ceases to be unexpected.
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| 90 |
TNT RoughCut
Heather Fehere
A movie that kids may want to see again and again, and adults will be happy to oblige.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
It may sound silly, but Lord and Park conjure up a world of visual miracles.
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| 90 |
Slate
Poetry in motion: It's eggsquisite.
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| 90 |
Chicago Reader
A scene set inside the chicken-pie-making machinery proves that the Rube Goldberg formula is infallible.
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| 90 |
Film.com
That rare movie, a clever and unabashedly fun adventure that has as many winning moments as it has hen's teeth -- which is quite a lot.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Not only funny and wicked, clever and visually inventive, but . . . kind and sweet. Tender and touching.
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| 88 |
USA Today
A little slapstick, a little action, rich characters and a whopping serving of wit. All baked to near-perfection.
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| 88 |
Boston Globe
There's nothing paltry about its poultry.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
Imbued with infectious pluck. It's also a lucid, competent, titanically entertaining movie loaded with workable gags.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
Staff (Not Credited)
Funny, even thrilling.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
A bizarre, thrilling, warmly funny spoof of the WWII Steve McQueen prison camp thriller, "The Great Escape" remade for a near all-chicken cast.
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| 88 |
New York Post
It is not only an amazing technical accomplishment, it's also the wittiest and best-voiced animated movie to come along in years.
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| 80 |
TV Guide
Who'd have thought you'd find yourself caring so much about the fate of a flock of fryers? This chicken has legs -- lots of them.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Absolutely delightful filmmaking, chock-full of gorgeously goofy animation and a storyline that cleverly echoes everything from "Stalag 17" to "Cool Hand Luke."
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| 75 |
Miami Herald
The package is perfectly irresistible.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
That rare kids' movie that may be even more entertaining for its intended audience's adult companions.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
A combination of "Barnyard Follies" and "Schindler's List."
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