Article: `Chicken Run'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

The foulest movie of the summer may also be the fairest.

In fact, "Chicken Run," a witty, heartfelt fable, is among the best movies of the year. Created by the folks who made the delightful, Oscar-winning "Wallace and Gromit" short films, "Chicken Run" pays homage to POW camp movies such as "Stalag 17" and "The Great Escape," except its hollow-eyed urchins, trapped in a barbed-wire-rimmed camp, are a bunch of chickens who view their English farm as a prison from which they must escape.

Beginning with the opening music, a making-the-world-safe-for-democracy march, "Chicken Run" establishes a tone of exaggeration and gentle irony.

Early on, ...

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