英国のとある養鶏場。強欲な女主人ミセス・トゥイーディーの支配下、ここのメンドリたちは囚人のような毎日を送っていた。仕事といえば卵を産むことだけで、産めなくなったら食用チキンにされる運命。そんな人生に疑問を感じたジンジャーは、真のニワトリ人生を求め、今日も脱走計画を練っていた。そんなある日、空からオンドリが降ってきて養鶏場に墜落。それを見たジンジャーは「空を飛ぶ練習をすればいいんだ！」と閃く。
製作費: $45,000,000 (68億円)
興行収入: $224,834,564 (337億円)
推定収支: $179,834,564 (270億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: ニック・パーク / Peter Lord
脚本: Karey Kirkpatrick / ニック・パーク / Peter Lord
音楽: John Powell / ハリー・グレッグソン＝ウィリアムズ
制作: ニック・パーク / David Sproxton / Peter Lord
撮影監督: Tristan Oliver / Frank Passingham
制作会社: Aardman / DreamWorks Animation / Pathé / DreamWorks Pictures
10年ほど前にみましたが、何度みてもよくできていて好きですね。
A guilty pleasure for me personally, as I love both 'The Great Escape' and most of the works I have seen, over the years, from this rightfully-esteemed British animation company. Highly recommended both for children and for adults who enjoy animation.
Made my roommate who hates stop-motion animation watched this in 2018 and even he had a good time. It's maybe not as great as I remember thinking it was when I was a little kid, but it still holds up to some degree. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
A very good stop-motion animation! <em>'Chicken Run'</em>, which I watched a crap tonne when I was little but not for a vast number of years now, is an impressive production given it came out in 2000. Despite a pretty simple feel to the film, it's a very well developed concept. The, admittedly short, run time truly flies by. Of course everything looks, relatively, terrific, but I'm impressed by the pacing which is clean. As for the cast, Julia Sawalha is the definite standout - she's fantastic as Ginger. Timothy Spall and Phil Daniels, as rats Nick and Fetcher, are amusing. Mel Gibson (Rocky), though still decent, isn't actually that good in this. A fun and interesting story! Definitely worth seeing if you haven't already. I'm intrigued to see where they go with the upcoming sequel.
Ok, there is an huge temptation to riddle this review with puns - but I'm just going to say it's a cracking little family adventure. It's seemingly based on a whole range of classic movies from the "Great Escape", "Star Trek" to "Love Story" with a score cannibalised from just about any/everything ever written by Messrs. Korngold/Williams & Bernstein all adding to this really super stop-motion animation that Ray Harryhausen would have been proud of.. A flock of chickens are relentlessly exploited for their eggs by the evil "Mrs Tweedy" - that is, until "Rocky" (an on-form Mel Gibson) arrives over the fence and incites escape plans... Meantime their malevolent owner (Miranda Richardson) has plans to industrialise production - and this time, not just of the eggs... It's a fun frolic, this - with great vocal performances from Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and Benjamin Whitrow as the rather pompous RAF spotter chicken "Fowler". Nick Park and Peter Lord - and the wonderfully imaginative Aardman team - have built upon their "Wallace and Gromit" experience and created some charming characters with some great lines for both the young, and the formerly young. Certainly a film you can leave the kids alone in front of the telly to.
