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movie review - Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is an animated movie from the lunatics at Aardman. Though I suspect these spin-off movies are done with software rather than plasticine, they have much of the same bonkers charm. In this case, the heroes are a living in a quiet chicken village but one of them, a teenage girl chicken y'see, wants more. So she sneaks out and the next thing you know an agribusiness has its filthy mitts on the entire village.

I enjoyed the comedy, the animation style, the engaging characters, and the classic "regular people fight back" shtick. The plot takes us in a few unexpected directions and we find ourselves in something bordering corporate drama before it's resolved.

This movie is a step above a lot of the stuff I find myself watching for "movie night".

Recommended.