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Article: PLENTY TO CROW ABOUT IN FUNNY 'CHICKEN RUN'.(LIVING)(Movie review)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2000
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Critics have been clucking excitedly about the arrival of ''Chicken Run,'' the long-awaited full-length feature film from the team that created the Oscar-winning shorts featuring the clay-animated characters ''Wallace and Gromit.''
And ''Chicken Run'' is worth getting your feathers ruffled about. Smart and sassy, this prison escape movie featuring a flock of freedom-loving British chickens never talks down to its audience, and it delivers that rare summer movie treat - something completely original.
Remember, I'm saying that about a movie that lifts whole scenes from ''The Great Escape.'' But, when you see a clay animation chicken scooting along on a ...