Critique: Park and Lord's full length animation flick mainly takes place in a depressing chicken coop. There are a lot of witty, fun, even intelligent moments that help Chicken Run enormously and so the depressing background is tolerable. My favorite line is when the old rooster says after Mel Gibson's "American" character arrives to the farm "Americans, always late to wars!" Don't even ask why Park and Lord casted Gibson as an American come to think of it (I'm pretty certain he is Australian and so resonates like a Brit). There is certainly a solid amount of inspirational moments also, and along with this film's generally likable characteristics it is recommendable.
I'm not quite sure however, why Park and Lord think most children would have patience upon seeing the same background over and over again, along with the sad mood. Nonetheless, most children who will or have seen this flick already probably had a good time. It was funny enough where they could forget about the jail scenario, but I still think that was a major miscalculation. Perhaps the chickens could escape a few times before escaping forever. It would change the scenario and make the film a bit more hopeful and even happy.
The rodent businessmen that keep watching, and mostly laughing at the chickens were also pretty funny. As were the attempts for the chickens to try to fly. Of course none of this was brilliantly funny, but it worked.
Lastly the characters weren't developed much, but the interactions between the characters was pretty solid. Like many things about this film it worked, not really well, but well enough.
review by supernothingman |
