Article: HATCHING A COUP `CHICKEN RUN' IS FOR AUDIENCES WHO ARE GAME FOR GOOFINESS.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI Staff writer

Speaking frankly, here, the chickens in ``Chicken Run'' don't look all that chickeny. Their beaks are rubbery. Their cans are bell-shaped. They have teeth. And they're accessorized -- scarves, pearls, Coke-bottle glasses, cute little beanies. One of them wears powder-blue bangs and knits.

At night, while the nefarious chicken farmer and his even-more-nefarious chicken-farming wife are otherwise engaged, hens as intrepid as the POWs in ``Stalag 17'' hatch not babies but elaborately mapped-out escape plans involving underground tunnels and egg beaters. Ginger, the plucky (plucked?) heroine of the farmyard, constantly ...

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