_“Bunty, why didn’t you give her some of yours?”_ _“I would have! But she didn’t tell me! _*_She didn’t tell anyone…”_* That exchange still makes my blood turn to ice. 😰

@crimsondynamo615

Жыл бұрын

Bunty may be prone to anger easily, but she never hesitates to help.

@Gunkle_Jeb

Жыл бұрын

Even when I was a little kid, I knew the “she didn’t tell anyone” had power behind it, but I didn’t understand the meaning until 15 years later

@madaxgaming6405

Жыл бұрын

This movie is such a master piece

@estrellaescobar5723

Жыл бұрын

Damn, she was suicidal. She knew her days were numbered and didn't care or worst: she did it on purpose.

@iantaggart3064

Жыл бұрын

@@crimsondynamo615 One of my favorite character tropes.

Realized years later from watching this movie that Edwina's death was no mistake, she just wanted to die, she couldn't take the abuse and didn't want to keep living a hopeless life anymore on the farm, you can completely tell from when she didn't struggle, scream, or cry Suicide in a film is something you won't see anymore without it being apparent..

@MMumbles

Жыл бұрын

I took it to mean that she was in denial of her problem, or that she didn't want to be a burden on anyone. But yeah, your idea makes more sense

@LooneyTuneLegendYT

Жыл бұрын

Wait, really. I never realized that. I just saw it as she not being able to lay eggs and she knew her life was up. Huh, the things you realize when you read KZread comments.

@firemiracle

Жыл бұрын

I realized that too after i rewatched this movie as an adult. Like holy crap, that poor chicken just couldn't take it anymore and technically committed suicide. It's so dark and sad 😢 And you know what makes it worse??? If edwina could've waited a bit longer when rocky came, then she could've tried to escape with everyone else. She could've had a free happy life 😔

@bluepastee8583

Жыл бұрын

wow this film is dark

@maxgoldpower

Жыл бұрын

@@firemiracle until the fox gets them anyway.

There is also the implication that Edwina wanted this to happen as she could have asked for them to share their eggs. But she didn't and even though she was scared this implies that she did this on purpose. She wanted to be free from this hell in any way necessary and this was her way out. Dark scene from a kids film that you see more developed as an adult. Really gives way to the need to escape from here as quickly as possible as Babs is next when they put the machine together.

@shipper-of-heart8898

Жыл бұрын

It was actually Ginger who was next when the machine was put together. Mrs Tweedy did say she wanted to fatten the chickens up to Bab's size. But when the machine's done, she tells Mr Tweedy to grab any chicken to test the machine-he immediately picks Ginger since she's caused the most trouble (and with the machine being able to hold more than one chicken at a time, multiple chickens would've gone next)

“Chicken run is a horror movie, right?” Definitely Also, favorite part was “M’life was flashing before m’eyes! It was all rather boring!”

@mondenkindqueen

Жыл бұрын

It would be if the beginning and end of your daily life is “lay eggs.”

@grim_2000

Жыл бұрын

_I told you they're organized!_ is definitely the best part for me ))

@JoeThornhill

Жыл бұрын

*"it was really boring."

@syrusangi8743

9 ай бұрын

Eggs from Heaven! No, from her bum! Hahahaha! 😂

@MoskHotel

9 ай бұрын

The video game is pretty terrifying with its game-over screens, especially with the dogs.

This scene definitely sets the tone of the film, and the seriousness of the situation. There's actually an interpretation that Edwina didn't ask anyone for help, or resist because she thought death was the only way out.

@454ChevelleSS

Жыл бұрын

Omg i never thought of it that way

@TadeuCunhaMiranda

Жыл бұрын

I started to interpret that way when I rewatched this movie a few years ago. It´s so sad omg.

@MissFlow

Жыл бұрын

She could have saved herself by asking for help. But she didn't WANT to be saved. She wanted it all to stop, and that's the depressing part.

@DemxnTheyThem

Жыл бұрын

Makes sense, it's established pretty quick that Ginger's escape plans have always failed

@decristal48

Жыл бұрын

Wow

Babs is the best girl. Her empty-headed sweetness offered a good juxtaposition for everything going on around her.

@edwinreid8355

Жыл бұрын

" My whole life flashed by right before my eyes. It were really boring. " One of the best lines in the film.

@Boundwithflame23

Жыл бұрын

“I don’t want to be a pie!” _pause_ “I don’t like gravy.” That’s what you focus on? Lmao

@liljenborg2517

Жыл бұрын

@@Boundwithflame23 To this day Jane Horrocks is plagued by fans asking her to say the line.

@eamonndeane587

Жыл бұрын

@@liljenborg2517 Jane Horricks is a National Treasure.

@InfiniteLoop

Жыл бұрын

Babs is the guy from Stalag 17 who's been there two years and gets a letter from his wife announcing she's pregnant and he's happy about it.

Ginger watched Edwina die, and then watched a flock of flying birds pass overhead. Those represented the only two options ahead of her: death or freedom.

The machine seen traumatized me as a kid. There was a wooden castle playground that I used to go to that had lots of tiny passages in the bottom I loved playing in them, but after seeing the movie, I saw it as the inside of the death machine and was too scared to. As an adult, I realized that this was really just a holocaust movie.

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

The irony is that the machine is comically violent / over the top (a bit like the ED-209 in Robocop), as putting live [as well as unplucked & ungutted] chickens through a shredder would be laughably messy, and give useless results.

@tylerrusnak7736

Жыл бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 Yeah but not something a 5 year old should have seen. I mean, this was a holocaust movie too...

@erikastone9183

9 ай бұрын

The pot pie machine scared me as a kid and it still scares me as an adult. First time I watched this movie I refused to eat chicken for a while cuz eating chicken only reminded me of this movie and I felt guilty eating what used to be a chicken that was once alive, I felt like I murdered what I ate. Now every time I watch a movie with talking farm animals(Charlotte's web, Babe, ect.), I refuse to eat pork, bacon, beef, steak, chicken, or even lamb the same day as the movie.

@Mar6008

5 ай бұрын

The machine scared machine also scared me haha i was like 5 when i saw it

It transitions from a work camp when it's still about egg production, where the characters would be killed if they can no longer produce, to the industrialized killing of a death camp when the business shifts to making pies.

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

What's kind of ironic is that not even the germans tried putting live prisoners into a shredder, which is what the pie machine does... nor for that matter do actual chicken farms XD. (After all; when you think about it, how would one deal with all the feathers & non-edible bits?)

@avroarchitect1793

Жыл бұрын

Mirroring the WW2 POW and concentration camps. They started as slave labour and turned into dealing death on an industrial scale.

@dragonfell5078

Жыл бұрын

@@jimtaylor294 I'm 90% sure Mrs. Tweedy either got scammed or picked that machine on purpose for maximum pain

@dustymcwari4468

Жыл бұрын

@@dragonfell5078 I'm no expert, but the problem with her plan that I see, is that the amount of chickens she needed to become a chicken pie business is massively bigger than the amount she had at the time, that also required feeding the chicken twice the amount they used to give them, and she was even marketining the chicken pies on a billboard as if she planned reaching higher than just some local grocery stores, perhaps even going country wide because she was ambitious, so even if she managed to slaughter everyone, she would've failed to supply demand, and the way she chased the chicken as they were running away could tell that she had no plans in getting some more for the time being, Ginger and her squad was all her stock for the pies, so she would've just killed the source of the little income they had, and be left with almost nothing, because the machine, extra food, and publicity was adding more to the bar the first wave of chicken pies needed to reach just so they didn't call it a loss And she didn't really study the market to determine if selling chicken pies was a good idea or not, she just saw a pamphlet telling her she would be rich by purchasing that chicken pie making machine, and she just rolled with it as if she was buying a money printer

@dragonfell5078

Жыл бұрын

@@dustymcwari4468 I never thought of it that way but you're totally right. Mr. Tweedy was right to be skeptical and wanting to stick to egg farming, at least that was a consistent and stable source of income

What makes what makes it worse is that a short time later you see Edwina's remains on the Tweedys' dinner table, having just eaten her.

@sheriasha18

Жыл бұрын

*Faints*

@erikastone9183

9 ай бұрын

😱🤮

@whyme3772

5 ай бұрын

@@erikastone9183 Hey, it's no different from what we do irl. Unless you're a vegan..

It's mind-boggling to me how few people seem to remember this film. It is one of the greatest claymation films of all time. Going back and watching it again recently, the visuals and jokes still hold up really well. And boy is it dark.

@masterknife8423

Жыл бұрын

I love the model of the pie machine. So well designed and evil looking it deserves more credit if you ask me

@fawfulfan

Жыл бұрын

@@masterknife8423 Mrs. Tweedy's insistence on making herself the face of the pie business because the "woman's touch makes the public feel more comfortable" is just such a hilariously macabre line that didn't hit me hard until I rewatched as an adult.

@fawfulfan

Жыл бұрын

@@masterknife8423 the line is meant to be a ridiculous juxtaposition. This sinister towering figure who runs an egg farm like a concentration camp and terrorizes even her own husband putting herself forward as a kindly smiling housewife. It hits the same part of your brain as a Stephen King monstrosity taking the form of a children's clown.

@Grane1234

Жыл бұрын

Aardman has made some great movies and shows, hell Shaun the Sheep is literally right there

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

@@fawfulfan For me it was Mr Tweedy's reaction that I noted most. It is after all *his* farm (started by a great great great [+ who knows] grandfather), but he has long since been "henpecked" into trying to please his wife.

Just to make it even sadder, they apparently named Edwina in honour of a real person some of the filmmakers knew, who had died. (I LOVED this movie as a kid! I was lucky enough to see it during a flight on British Airways, before it had been released in my native Australia).

@liamannegarner8083

Жыл бұрын

I'd read in the Making Of book that it was a reference to Edwina Currie, a minister of agriculture who was in charge during a salmonella outbreak that cacked British eggs for a month or so.

The part I found really bringing the whole thing home of how little these chickens meant was seeing the leftovers of her cooked body in the kitchen later. Imagine knowing you are just a slave and once you have no purpose for your master they will eat you and not even bother to clean up your body until they are done going through their paperwork.

She didn't tell anyone she wasn't laying eggs. She didn't reach out for help. She was scared, but she didn't fight death. Edwina was suicidal.

Chicken Run will always be one of my favourite stop motion animated films and the beginning of Chicken Run is insanely darker than I remembered watching as a child. Edwina's death has so many layers to it and the fact that Edwina saw death as the only way out, even when offered eggs by Bunty and the other chickens, and showing that the chicken coup is more prison like than we would think. I never realised this when I was younger, and it makes me love the film even more now than I did before , the filming angles here, the camera shots, the music, the way that Mrs Tweedy walks and goes through the list of chickens which all are represented by a number instead of a name.

@jacthing1

Жыл бұрын

Or how the pen their in literally looks like a Holocaust camp from the Holocaust?

i loved this movie so much as a kid, ESPECIALLY for the kinda dark humor "I dont wanna be a pie!!! I dont like gravy" still makes me laugh hard

@chrisg9383

Жыл бұрын

I usually eat a chicken pot pie while watching this movie…

@3va22

6 ай бұрын

@@chrisg9383LOL😭

When I saw the death of Edwina the first time, I had an adult to explain why it was happening. It was one of those moments where you accept the facts, but it’s still kind of a bummer.

@jaschabull2365

Жыл бұрын

This scene was actually the moment that tipped me off that that "woodcutter" in one of Geppetto's clocks in Pinocchio wasn't supposed to be trying to split the log.

It makes sense that it reminds you of a concentration camp, being that It is a chicken version of the great escape which is about POW’s. like the ball bouncing in solitary scene and a several others were directly influenced from the film (it started originally as a spoof of that from what ive read). I was a bit older when this came out but my family loved it lol

@grekabekis7750

Жыл бұрын

Also my family still quotes “i dont want to be a pie, i dont like gravy” any time we talk about pot pies. So lasting impact i suppose 😂

@emmaishida4386

Жыл бұрын

It is essentally a prison escape movie but set on a chicken farm.

@SlapstickGenius23

Жыл бұрын

@@emmaishida4386 It’s not just the chicken equivalent of the Great Escape, it’s also biting commentary on factory farms, which make tons of money via breeding screwed up battery chickens!

@emmaishida4386

Жыл бұрын

@@SlapstickGenius23 Thats true. I used to help my mum collect eggs in a large scale egg farm and the conditions weren't much different to those in the film. We sometimes get random chickens come in the shed whom we would call Ginger. My uncle kept chickens on his small allotment and it was paradise. They could enjoy the outdoors as long as they wished. When they stopped laying they were just kept as pets. He would only kill a chicken when it was suffering and could no longer walk

I remember, a couple years ago, there was a butchery near my house that had a plushie of Ginger hanging above the chicken, looking down at the meat. I could never decide if I tought it was funny or kinda disturbing.

@erikastone9183

9 ай бұрын

That sounds disturbing AF. I went to a butcher shop once to get some meat. And in the back room I caught a glimpse of the workers in the back cutting a freshly killed chicken. I felt sick to my stomach and refused to eat chicken for a while after seeing that. 😱🤮

@3va22

6 ай бұрын

Oh nah😭

My favourite part of this scene is the sound effect of the axe hitting the stump, and how understated it was. No echoing thud, that reverberates around, just a little *bap*.

@epoxylung

Жыл бұрын

I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO POINT THIS OUT , they couldve easily added some extra sound effect like many horror films do , but just a simple thud really emphasizes the raw reality of the situation , as well as demonstrating that these chickens really are powerless , seeing as how decapitating them is as easy as one effortless swing of an axe

@MASTEROFEVIL

Жыл бұрын

That's just what that would sound like in real life

Revisiting it as an adult, it's a lot darker than I remember it being as a child. Only the bit that unsettles me is Mrs Tweedy's abuse of Mr Tweedy. The poor guy is clearly utterly terrified of her, so you can tell from his reactions he's unsafe at home. Honestly, she deserved to have that barn door dropped on her

@its9333

5 ай бұрын

Totally agreed. I mean she did kick him at one point and threw pie in his face at another

@RKSTUFF357

5 ай бұрын

She's still here in the sequel

@pancakepop680

5 ай бұрын

She's great. We need villains like her. Ones nowadays are boring.

@kkaroli.k

4 ай бұрын

@@pancakepop680true

This movie introduced me to the horrors of reality. I didn’t understand that it was also symbolic of the holocaust, learning about that piece of history changed my out look on life all together. But I love this movie.

Edwina's scene certainly set a strong tone for the movie at the start, but the scene that changes everything, especially it's impact on the rewatch, has got to be Rocky's confession.

I grew up with movies from this company, mostly Wallace and Gromit, and Chicken Run, I barely realized these were British movies lol I was rather clueless when little, so the movie didn't really scare me.. The movies just give me nostalgia, and I'm still amazed how they can get so fluent animation with clay!

I don't remember being scared of this movie as a child, but it definitely stood out to me

@Pretzels727

6 ай бұрын

Me too , The only thing I remember was that I thought the film was weird because it was kind of dark.

I remember watching this movie at school. When the chicken was about to be cut up, some kid shouted 'CHICKEN NUGGIT!' and everybody started laughing and the teacher later told us to quiet down. She had a grin on her face going back to her desk.

@agentkmr

Жыл бұрын

C H I K N U G G I T

@HeilRay

Жыл бұрын

@@agentkmr 🤣

@Spingerex

Жыл бұрын

Lol

@sgtmyers88

7 ай бұрын

And now the sequel is about... nuggets.

@HeilRay

7 ай бұрын

@@sgtmyers88 wha no way!

This is one of the films that introduced me to stop motion the other being Coraline. And between these two films, Chicken run was much darker and is the one that really left a lasting impression on me as a kid.

@richardbell7678

5 ай бұрын

Forgive the thread necro, but I sincerely hope that if these films introduced you stop motion, you were able to find some of the old (ancient?) classics. In particular, the works of Ray Harryhausen. His films feature stop motion animated creatures composited into the frame with live actors. The first major film that Ray Harryhausen worked on was "Mighty Joe Young", a film that wanted to capture some of the magic of "King Kong". Ray Harryhausen went on to make several action/adventure films, including "Jason and the Argonauts", "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad", "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger", and "Clash of the Titans". Ray Harryhausen also did some science fiction films. The weirdest place to find stop motion animation is the soft core porn film "Flesh Gordon" and its sequel, but I cannot recommend them. They are not great, or even memorable, films, but, for reasons known only to their creators, they include some stop motion animation bits.

Wow, this brings back memories. This was certainly a dark scene, but you know what’s really terrifying? Babs is probably so traumatized that her brain is scrambled. That’s an explanation for why Babs is so scatterbrained. I can only imagine the horrors the other chickens have seen.

The saddest and most horrifying part of Chicken Run is that the chickens in it are kept in better conditions than most commercial chickens are.

"A symbol of freedom, free birds flying in the open air" Like many Irish or Scottish anthems: Fields of Athenry: "Low lie the Fields of Athenry, where once we watched the small free birds fly." Norland Winds: "And far above the Angus straits I saw the wild geese fly, a long long skein of beating wings with their heads towards the sea"

From the chicken beheading, to ms tweedy in the chicken machine as the grease is rising, or the scene where she’s climbing the plane in a crazed state, or when she gets the door dropped on her at the end, as a kid, this movie stuck with me for my whole life, I love this movie endlessly, but damn this movie got dark. I also think that Mr and Mrs tweedy have impeccable design, they’re so menacing while still just being people, but the movie makes you understand from the start that she will do anything to these chickens and will not care about their wellbeing as long as she makes her profit

Chicken Run was a favourite of mine as a kid. My dad would often quote the movie at times. It has a apecial place in my heart. We also see later that night as Ginger and the hens plan their next escape. We see a panning shot over the kitchen table and see the carcass of a roast chicken. I.e Edwindas ultimate fate- a Sunday roast. Later on in the film during the next roll call, Babs ( the naive hen) admits she hasnt laid any eggs. Mrs Tweedy comes to her but this time isnt holding a glove.. its a tape measure. She is measuring the fattest chicken for the pies. Its a stark contrast to picking the hen who is no longer useful to be turned into dinner.

I always thought of it more as a POW camp rather than a concentration camp. The roll call, the rooster being in charge as 'senior officer', the escape attempts. It's basically The Great Escape, Stalag 17, or Hogan's Heroes in chicken form.

Looking at this again, I am genuinely impressed at the power of childhood obliviousness... I missed most of the comparisons to real life events and simply saw it as a scary/sad moment for the chickens which made me root for them to escape to happiness, truly excellent film making which I can appreciate again from a completely new angle as an adult

I had a similar traumatic movie experience as a kid. My dad got Watership Down for me to watch, all he saw were talking rabbits and thought I would love it. I watched it at night and it gave six year old me nightmares. Of course, as a 25 year old adult now, I actually really like the movie and the book, but the scene where the rabbits were being buried alive still haunts me a little. I had a phobia of rabbits for three years after that

i grew up watching this movie and never really understood what was really going on since i was around 2-4 years old. seeing it now made me realize how dark this movie really is and honestly i find it really interesting

@rhysburns5420

Жыл бұрын

It had a good tone and was way darker than it should have been.

It's absolutely more terrifying after realizing that Edwina basically committed suicide by not asking anybody else for their eggs, it's possibly more then likely that whatever egg she did lay, she smashed them.

@dustymcwari4468

6 ай бұрын

Or maybe she put them on other's nests, like maybe Bunty assumed she layed more than usual, but it was just Edwina giving her her own eggs

Maybe I missed the trauma, since I was in my freshman year of college when it came out, but I adore this movie to this day! The soundtrack, the technical aspects, the story! It's all just so fantastic!

I think...You should've mentioned the LAST time we really see Edwina...before the scene with Mrs. Tweedy wanting to change from chicken farming to chicken pies...we see a plate of chicken bones. GOD, that was too deep for me, my kid brain knew but like the other chickens, it just numbly went about watching the movie.

I grew up watching chicken run, and somehow wasn't horrified by it, but I did end up watching Great Escape(a movie about a WWII POW camp) years later and was then horrified to realize how many similarities the two movies had.

they showed this to us in school in first grade (i had already watched it before) the other kids gasped in shock when Edwina was killed. i only though "what do you think happens to the chickens that became nuggets" we were young but you cant tell me NONE of those kids realized ya animal has to die to become food.

@pancakepop680

5 ай бұрын

These are humanized claymation chickens.

Poor, poor Edwina, I hope she's not in pain anymore in the afterlife and rest in peace to her. 😢

Members of my family have been known to exclaim “I don’t want to be a pie! I don’t like gravy” occasionally, this movie was a big hit for all of us

I don’t want to be a pie, I don’t like gravy. This movie was my childhood and I still quote it to this day.

On one hand, there exist a holocaust movie like this: an animation meant for kids but genuinely horrifying because it didn’t shy away from the horrid realities of the camps. On the other hand, you have holocaust movies like Life is Beautiful, a live-action comedy (albeit emotional and tragic) for adults about a father’s never-ending enthusiasm for life and his efforts to protect his son from the reality of being a prisoner in the camps, and ultimately succeeding.

@funtechu

Жыл бұрын

This movie is also heavily based off the movie The Great Escape.

It's not just a concentration camp allegory, but it is specifically a direct re-creation of the movie The Great Escape starting Steve McQueen. Even down to the Cooler King stand-in Ginger spending time in solitary bouncing a ball off the wall. If you haven't watch The Great Escape, I'd definitely recommend it.

This was my childhood and yet I was never traumatised by any of the scenes all I remember is that one clueless chicken knitting while cycling

Holy shit I forgot this movie exsisted💀 I didn’t really care about how scary it was. I was the “QUIRKY GIRL.” I thought it was just a phase but now I genuinely love horror, gore and dark depressing stories.

@MMumbles

Жыл бұрын

Same except I'm the creepy weird girl lmao

@samreddig8819

Жыл бұрын

I like dark films as long as it serves a purpose. I'm not too keen on slashers, but when a dark theme gives you something to think about? That's good writing.

@gilbertgoosey

Жыл бұрын

@@samreddig8819 agreed.

This film even disturbed my dad. Mrs. Tweedy is officially the scariest villain out there (for me). And now I can say I've watched a horror film. Please do 9 next!

@andrewtodaro2874

Жыл бұрын

I watched this movie when it came out in theaters with my dad and I remember him once saying that Mrs. Tweedy looked like Adolf Eichmann in the shot of her carrying Edwina to her death. This is definitely a Nazi death camp allegory movie.

love this movie watched it a ton as a kid

@the_screaming_cherry3678

Жыл бұрын

Same

@goldencobra9247

Жыл бұрын

Me too

I felt like after Chicken Run, Aardman went for more of a kids comedy genre for their movies, especially since the next big project at the time was Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Don't get me wrong, Chicken Run has some great comedy too, but overall the genres and emotions that you get in Chicken Run feel much stronger and superior to later projects. Also, as a drinking game, take a shot every time Dazz mentions being traumatised as a three year old from Chicken Run.

You never fail to give me pure nostalgia with these movies you review... thank you

This is one of the movies I watched on VHS on repeat! I LOVED this movie, I'm so glad to see more people talking about it. And yeah, pretty dark lol

this film is essencially 'the great escape' film; the soundtrack, the war theme they give off, the bit when ginger keeps getting thrown in solitary and bouncing the ball and many other references.

At 5 years old my parents took me to see this in the movie theater. This scene.... On the big screen.... The psychological scars still remain....

This film lives rentfree in my head, me and my family still say lines from the movies as our own little "memes" !! Its such a good film

My kid brother was obsessed with this and we had to watch it on endless repeat for about 2-3 years. Still somehow enjoy watching it. Idk there’s just something about chicken parody of The Great Escape that never gets old.

I know how everyone talks about Edwina's suicide in this scene, but a detail I find so interesting is the look on her face, you can tell she didn't want it to come to this and that in a way she still wasn't ready to go

I remember seeing this as a kid in Hawaii in theaters. I thought it was genius. I understood alot of the Great escape references because I had seen The Great Escape prior on TCM.

One thing that hit me so hard as a kid was how utterly ordinary the decapitation scene was. There was no cinematic *shing* of the blade as it's pried from the block, no horrified screaming from Edwina, no flashy sound effects as the axe comes down to finish the deed. It's just a dull thud as the blade buries itself in the cutting board. It really drives home how death isn't something special, significant, or entertaining to these chickens, in stark contrast to how most other animated films might treat it. Instead it's simple, standard, and completely inevitable for every chicken on the farm as we see each of them react from the sound. This movie is a goddamn masterpiece.

This is one of my favourite movies of all time. Not even as a kids movie just a movie. Drama, comedy, a kick ass female protagonist, trauma inducing scenes. It has everything for me

Bumbty: "It means pedal your flipping giblets off". Back then and now, The joke makes no damn sense but is freaking hilarious and catches me off guard every time I watch this movie.

Fun fact: Chickens are able to fly, or at the very least jump high enough to reach the lowest branch of a tree. My guess is that Mrs.Tweedy clipped their wings. Which while it is a common practice. Could have some sort of symbolism of them having their freedom talen away as soon as they get into Ms.Tweedy's farm.

I don't see this movie get enough love, so I was so happy, and actually a bit surprised, to see you talk about it. Thanks man! :)

I watched this film so so often as a kid but it's never on tv and the video broke years ago, so I havent seen it since I was young enough to have no concept of horror Like, Mrs Tweedy is so obviously terrifying now, so much of this is clearly horrifying, but I know that I was more caught up in the characters emotions, so I was SAD that Edwina was taken bc they were losing their friend without really registering that that friend was being murdered with the implicit threat that they will all eventually join her, since we hadnt actually gotten to know her at all yet. All she meant to me was what they reacted with, and I wasnt able to read far enough into their reactions when I just didnt...understand that kind of threatening atmosphere. The fact that Dazz knows this freaked him out so much as a 3 year old has me wondering how normal my reaction was...

@queeny5613

Жыл бұрын

Same, I just cared about ginger

I was 5 year old when it came out. Growing up with chickens didnt make this scarry to me, as chickens beeing cooked and eaten after not laying was just life for us. But what really stuck out with me in this movie was the determination of ginger and the tic marks on the wall when she was in solitary confinement.

The part where Mrs. Tweedy checks the egg production paper, and you see all the 0's for me I thought that chicken was Ginger since she was always getting locked up. So for it to had been a different chicken made the shock more surreal and shocking. I watched this movie when I was about 4 or 5 and this was and still is my favorite movie just the style and the feel of the stop motion.

This is such an underrated film. It's really good.

You can see a tear hanging off the side of Edwina's cheek. The sparkle you noticed was a new one following the first. She's been silently crying the entire time.

@Alistuart

Жыл бұрын

That's not a tear. It's the back of the foot of the chicken behind her. It doesn't move with her head when she is shaking.

About the free flying birds ad the end, I think it's a symbol that edwina has finally been freed of the agony she was in I mean she could have just prevented her own death by telling someone but she didn't so she clearly was at peace with the fact that she wasn't going to survive and she had truly fallen into despair.

I don't know why people think this movie is scary, to me, anything Aardman makes is a work of art. I've watched all of their movies, and all of the TV shows (walice & gromit was always my morning TV show), and I'm not even brittish. I don't see why it's scary, to me, it is a work of art dang it!

@Anime_theatre_lover

Жыл бұрын

I’m American and I grew up with Shawn the Sheep and Ive seen Chicken Run once

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

I saw a brief clip of Wallace (from *A Grand Day Out* ) in japanese once; one of the most randomly funny things I'd encountered at the time.

@RegstarRogstar

Жыл бұрын

A piece of art can be scary though?

One of the scenes that changed my childhood was in Mouse Hunt.... Where the bad guy is eating dinner, a cockroach gets on his plate, and he eats it, and they let him, from that moment on, I always pay attention to the texture of whatever I eat

I grew up adoring this film. I still do. Its a go to nostalgia trip for me. But it is super dark.

As a kid I was never horrified but intrigued from the movie.

Had a funny Chicken Run dream last night. It was showing at my local theatre as an adaption live on stage and I was really enjoying watching it at the theatre but I loved the bit where Rocky came through the audience to the " everybody dance now" song. I wanted to go and see it again so I was really excited about Rocky coming through the audience so I decided to film it so I could show my girlfriend to impress her. It was brilliant as I was filming and when Ginger left the stage, Rocky came through the door and said " oi, what's going on here then?" As Everybody Dance Now was playing but it kept saying everybody dance now over and over again. It took him a long time to get to the stage and when he walked past me, he said " you, put that phone away". I kept on recording though even though he told me to turn it off and when he had an argument with Ginger, he shouted at me to put that ' bloody phone away!". Afterwards, one of the staff members came up to me and asked me if I had been recording so I said I only recorded the sound so I wouldn't get in trouble but she told me that I needed to delete all the recordings off my phone so I deleted them but I took them out of the bin when I got outside.

Bruh this was one of my favorite movies as a child and because of that this movie brings me so much nostalgia.

Also weirdly had to convince my mom this movie and the Wallace and Gromit ones were made by the same guy 😂she thought this was just “British claymation style” and i facepalmed so hard

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if some people mistake *Team America* as being one of *Supermarionation* on the same basis XD (though I can't say I blame 'em, as TA:WP was inspired by the works of Gerry Anderson)

This used to be one of my favorite movies back then. It still is a work of art

I remember as a kid actually thinking the chickens were going on holiday 🤣

My father.. 59 years old now.. He love this movie so much.. So much... He always played this movie in his vcd player until it broke down..

I used to watch this movie a lot in my childhood, this is the best stop-motion movie ever made for me. I listen to the movie's soundtrack every now and then, it's damn epic and unforgettable.

This movie terrified me as a kid

@android7191

Жыл бұрын

How? It's funny

@squid8748

Жыл бұрын

@@android7191 it’s pretty weird

@EduardoMartinez-rs3bu

Жыл бұрын

@@android7191 dude it was freaking terrifying And so was the other cartoon of the man with the dog

@android7191

Жыл бұрын

@@EduardoMartinez-rs3bu its not

@android7191

Жыл бұрын

@@squid8748 it's not

Chicken Run is a masterpiece. This film was a driving conversation to add “Best Animated Feature” to the Oscars. Cause if that award been around for this film it would have won it hands down!

The scene when Mrs. Tweedy getting stuck in the machine scared me for life

Your trauma is my laughter - I never thought of it as a horror film, but I can definitely see why it would be through the eyes of a three-year old.

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. As a five year old & *Jurassic Park* was a hide behind the sofa affair... while at age eight, it was just seriously cool. Today though it just makes me rather sad, as most of the family members I had with me the Monday night I first saw it, have passed away. Chicken Run was & is by contrast a fun adventure, both when I saw it in 2000, and since.

Man, this film was an awesome watch! Despite not getting most of the jokes... I still enjoy watching it! Such a delight!

I always had the impression that this film was a love letter to prisoner of war movies like the Great Escape but with more darker tones. On the surface it seems like prisoner of war themes, especially with the music and the tropes taken out by the characters, until you realise that the chickens are a work force being systematically killed failing to meet quotas like what was experienced in labour camps of the Third Reich or Soviet Union. The black Wellingtons, tall collar, long coat and glove antics of Mrs Tweedy all an allegory for a German officer

I can't believe we're the same age but had such different experiences. In the US I always saw this movie and fell in love with it. The idea of being the underdog trying to seek freedom overshadowed the scary decapitation scene. Plus, the 40's/50's song was catchy.

Now that I’m adult studying to become a history teacher, I recognize the concentration camp aesthetic. The rows of identical houses, the lining up for roll call, the barb wire and guard dogs, and the multiple close up views of Mrs Tweedy’s boots as she presides over them like an SS commandant selecting their victims who didn’t meet quotas.

I’ve always loved this film. It was on every Christmas for like 4 years straight. It gets better every time I watch it Fun fact: did you know that all the chickens have scarves around their necks to hide the joints of the clay puppets?

@IAMXIM

11 ай бұрын

yep i knew that, it also makes them slay it with there fashion lmao

I just watched this movie for the first time 20 minutes ago- at the age of 20 and I’m shook I’ve no idea what I was expecting but that wasn’t it I remember seeing the scene where “they’re inside a cake” as a kid and being traumatized by it, I was surprised to find out it was actually right in the middle of the movie!! Anyway, the scene that broke me was at the end, when everyone is flying, Mrs Tweedy is holding onto the Christmas lights, Gaia is trying to cut them; the moment when the scissors fall, she doesn’t think twice and starts biting the wires. It was clearly useless yet she did it with so much determination it broke my heart and I absolutely fell in love with her and this movie. It was such a small but impactful move

I had the same reaction to toystory as a kid. We left the theater, and kindergarden me was having panic attacks for weeks after, when they ran commercials for it. The toy getting decapitated, and then new parts stuck on, when they are sentient beings in that world, traumatized me.

I honestly thought this might be the scene you would pick. It’s so intense!

I assume they were going for a POW camp, like in The Great Escape; not a concentration camp.

@jimtaylor294

Жыл бұрын

Yup. If it were a Concentration Camp, the Chickens would've been Battery Hens... which would've been seriously dark.

omg I remember watching this movie everyday in the morning, which was a habit I had up until I was 7. and i still watch it because i love it

I watched Chicken Run pretty regularly from the ages of like 5 to about 12. Easily one of my favorite movies from my childhood, as it was set apart from the majority of movies I had watched, mainly its animation style and dialogue. It's such an inventive movie. Then I didn't watch it for another 15 until earlier in 2023. I somehow remembered almost every scene with near pinpoint accuracy. Even after 15 years, Chicken Run is a memorable film. And now we get to see what the lives for these chickens are like with the Dawn of the Nugget. Also, yes. Chicken Run is a horror movie. And a prison movie. And an allegory for the enslaved. The fact this movie is rated G is astounding. If it was not a stop-motion Claymation film (perhaps even just CGI animation), it most definitely would have a more mature rating. And that's the beauty of films like Chicken Run.

I would say “opening up British-isms to the new American audiences” worked because goddamn if this movie wasn’t my intro to teabooism idk what was. Except maaaaybe Harry Potter

I somehow loved this movie as a kid

Chicken run was my childhood I loved it so much Watched it hundreds of time It was really interesting seeing someone else’s thoughts on it

I honestly don't remember ever being _terrified_ of that movie as a kid. Yes, it's scary and hard at times, like many good movies, but it doesn't count as a horror/spooky movie too me.