Chicks on the run: the origin of nuggetswhich has just been released Netflixis not a children’s film: it is a family film, which is not exactly the same.
For those adults (or children) who enjoyed the first one the most. Chicken Runreleased in 2000, seeing Ginger the chicken and Rocky the rooster again, plus the evil Mrs. Tweedy, is more than a nostalgic trip, thanks to the fact that The origin of nuggets It is an independent film from the original.
OK, for those who didn’t see it, there is an introduction to find out how Ginger and Rocky escaped from the villainous Mrs. Tweedy’s farm. They now live on Chicken Island, a relative paradise not too far from the farm that was like a concentration camp. They don’t lack food (they even make popcorn using a magnifying glass so the sun can cook it) and there are no humans.
Ginger and Rocky have had a chick, Molly, to whom Rocky tells about his escape adventure. And Molly is determined to experience it firsthand. She will leave that pristine place to live her life. She crosses paths with a chicken named Frizzle, and without warning they are put to sleep and sent to Fun-Land Farm.
It’s like coming to Disney. There are games, and they eat and drink as much as possible. A small detail is that the chickens have a device on their neck.
But that multicolored farm inside, it’s like where Truman lives in The Truman Show. Everything is fictitious. Even though they have rides, slides and stairs that lead to the painted sky, the outside is pure steel and has barbed wire. And yes, Tweedy’s idea is to turn chickens into nuggets and sell them to a fast food house…
When Ginger and Rocky discover that Molly is gone, they will assemble a squad of chickens to go to Molly’s rescue. Are they going to return to that land, where she had such a bad time?
Yes, everything is for his little daughter.
In addition to naive humor, the film has many cinephile references – the one mentioned about the film with Jim Carrey, Mission Impossible– and even allows us to consider whether Ginger, by not wanting her daughter to go outside, did not become a kind of jailer.
The directors of the first production company Aardman, Peter Lord and Nick Park, are no longer here, but director Sam Fell continues to improve stop motion animation, Wallace & Gromit and of The strange world of JackFor example.
And well, Mel Gibson and Julia Sawalha are not there either, and now the voices of Rocky and Ginger are those of Zachary Levi and Thandiwe Newton. Young Molly is voiced by Bella Ramsay, the actress from Game of Thrones (it was Lyanna Mormont) and The Last of Us.
Summarizing, Chicks on the run: The origin of nuggets It is hilarious, it repeats some cliché that many may see as winks, it lasts almost 20 minutes longer than the original, so there is more fun for the same money that one pays for the Netflix account.
“Chicks on the run: the origin of nuggets”
Animated comedy. United Kingdom / United States / France, 2023. Original title: “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget”. 101′, ATP. Of: Sam Fell. With the original voices of: Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsay, Miranda Richardson, Imelda Staunton. Available in: Netflix.