

Imelda Staunton as Bunty, the champion egg-layer and group cynic who is skeptical of Ginger's escape plans.Jane Horrocks as Babs, a chubby and naïve hen who loves knitting.Phil Daniels as Fetcher, Nick's slow-witted partner.Timothy Spall as Nick, a cynical, portly rat who smuggles contraband into the compound.Benjamin Whitrow as Fowler, a feisty elderly rooster who prattles endlessly about his experiences in the Royal Air Force.

Despite his low intelligence, he is more aware of the chickens' escape plans than his wife. Tweedy's oafish and hen-pecked husband and owner. Tweedy's evil, greedy and power-hungry wife and owner of the farm who wants to make the chickens into pies. Mel Gibson as Rocky Rhodes, an American circus rooster who crash-lands on the coop and must teach the chickens to fly.Julia Sawalha as Ginger, the de-facto British leader of the chickens who is determined to protect her friends from facing certain death.During the credits, Nick and Fetcher discuss starting their own chicken farm so they can have all the eggs they could eat, but then end up arguing over whether or not the chicken or the egg came first on top of a Chicken Sanctuary Keep Off Sign. The chickens celebrate their victory while Ginger and Rocky kiss, and they fly to an island that they make their home. Tweedy of his warning that the chickens were organized, much to her frustration. Tweedy falling into the safety valve of the pie machine and causing it to explode. Tweedy follows by climbing up the lights with an axe Ginger dodges an axe swipe which cuts through the line, sending Mrs. Tweedy attacks Ginger as she helps the plane take off but is subdued by Rocky, who leaves with Ginger by holding onto a line of Christmas lights snagged by the departing plane. Tweedy’s chicken pies and returns to the farm out of guilt for abandoning the chickens. Meanwhile, Rocky encounters a billboard advertising Mrs. Tweedy to gather all the chickens for the machine, but the chickens attack him, leaving him bound and gagged as they finish the plane.

The chickens-with help from Nick and Fetcher (two rats who smuggle contraband)-assemble parts for the plane as Mr. Elderly rooster Fowler tries to cheer them up by telling stories of his time as a mascot in the Royal Air Force, giving Ginger the idea to create a plane to flee the farm. The next day, Ginger finds Rocky has left, leaving behind part of a poster revealing him as a former cannon stunt actor who is unable to fly, depressing her and the others. Rocky saves her and inadvertently sabotages the machine, buying them time to warn the chickens and plan an escape from the farm. Tweedy finishes the pie machine and puts Ginger in it for a test run. Later that night, Rocky holds a dance party when his wing is healed Ginger insists he demonstrates flying the next day, but Mr. Rocky gives them training lessons while Mr. Interested in Rocky's apparent flying abilities, Ginger begs him to help teach her and the chickens to fly.

One day, the chickens' leader, Ginger, witnesses an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes crash-land in the farm's coop the chickens put his damaged wing in a cast and hide him from the Tweedys. Tweedy suspects the chickens’ sentience and wonders if they are plotting, but Mrs. Tweedy gets an idea of converting the farm to automated production and having a machine turn the chickens into meat pies. Frustrated at the minuscule and declining profits that the farm generates, Mrs. The chickens try to escape frequently, but are always caught. Tweedy, who kill and eat any chicken that is no longer able to lay eggs. Ī group of British anthropomorphic chickens live on an egg farm set up like a World War II Nazi Concentration Camp. A sequel titled Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is scheduled to be released in 2023 on Netflix. Released to critical acclaim, Chicken Run was also a commercial success, grossing over $224 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history. The plot centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners want to turn them into meat pies. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. Aardman’s first feature-length film and DreamWorks' fourth film, it was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and story by Lord and Park. Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with DreamWorks Animation.
