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Article: HATCHING A COUP `CHICKEN RUN' IS FOR AUDIENCES WHO ARE GAME FOR GOOFINESS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2000
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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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...CHICKEN Run, the most successful British animated ... British made and American financed, Chicken Run will join such films as Gladiator ... year's box office giants. So far Chicken Run, made by Nick Park's Aardman Animation in Bristol and ...
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