"Chicken Run"

Yesterday I borrowed "Chicken Run" from the Segers. Yes, we do own a copy of it but we don't own a functioning VHS player anymore, so I borrowed their DVD for the youngers in the family. (Olders were going to watch Gettysburg but that's another post.)

"The story revolves around an English egg farm designed a lot like a WWII-era prison camp, with overtones of the Nazi concentration camps as well, in that chickens that don't produce end up as dinner. While most of the chickens are resigned to their fate, one plucky hen named Ginger keeps leading escape attempts and keeps getting locked in "solitary" for her pains. Her task takes on new urgency when the Tweedys (the couple who run the farm) prepare to convert their operation into a chicken-pie factory. Hope arrives in the form of an American known (amusingly, in view of the recent "Rocky & Bullwinkle" film) as "Rocky the Flying Rooster", whom Ginger thinks can teach the chickens how to fly. Naturally, Rocky isn't really what he seems to be, and the revelation of his secret threatens to dash all hope of escape, because everyone knows chickens can't fly-or can they?"

Chicken Run has long been a favorite of mine; it's one of those that I will watch more than once. A friend invited me out to watch it the day it came out in the theaters. My dad and mom not knowing what it was about decided it would be best to wait until they had watched (nothing new, they are still doing it. :D ).  When it came out on VHS (yes VHS) my parents watched it and then allowed us to watch it. Mind you that was when we lived in the city, it was a funny movie and we all loved it, we were also known to use lines from the movie often (lose our heads?)

Once we moved to the country and had as our first country animals chickens the movie started making more sense and being a common joke in our family, when the chickens would try to run out the door or fly into the chicken wire one of us was bound to say ”They're *chickens*, you dolt...they're the most stupid creatures on this planet. They don't plot, they don't scheme, and they are *not* organized"


It's a great movie, one in which the entire family can enjoy together. Just be careful or you might start hearing lines like...

Rocky: Oh, just a little place I call the land of the free and the home of the brave...

Mac: Scotland!

Rocky: No! America.

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Chickens go in; pies come out. Chicken pies. Not apple pies, chicken.

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Babs: Morning, Ginger. Back from holiday?

Ginger: I wasn't on holiday, Babs. I was in solitary confinement.

Babs: Oh, it's nice to get a bit of time to yourself, isn't it?

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Mr. Tweedy: [being attacked by chickens] Mrs Tweedy! The chickens are revolting!
Mrs. Tweedy: [not paying attention] Finally something we agree on.