Article: 'Chicken Run' game fails to take off.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Chicken Run

Eidos Interactive, $30

CD-ROM for Win 95/98 or PlayStation

For ages 7 and older

Two stars

"Chicken Run" - the story of a group of chickens escaping from a prisonlike farm - first appeared about a year ago as a feature film. It blew away a generation of assumptions about kids' movies.

Before this movie, everyone took it for granted that American kids wouldn't put up with odd regional English; that Claymation could never hold the mass appeal of cell or computer animation; and that a movie for kids about a prison camp - excuse me, chicken farm - would never find commercial success. "Chicken Run" 's huge ...

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