After Ginger finds a piece of a circus poster suggesting Rocky can fly, she agrees to hide him from his owners if he teaches them how to fly. As she stands outside that night, she sees a Rhode Island Red rooster named Rocky, who flies over the fence and crash-lands into the coop, breaking his wing. However, she soon concludes that their only viable plan is to go over the fence, something that has not been tried yet. Ginger attempt to rally the other chickens' spirits so they will speed up their efforts to escape. Tweedy finds an article in a magazine suggesting a new way to increase profits. Ginger becomes increasingly desperate to find a plan of escape after Edwina, another hen, who has not laid any eggs for several days, is slaughtered for the Tweedys' dinner with a hatchet. Their official leader Ginger has attempted numerous escapes to flee the coop but is routinely thwarted by the Tweedys and their dogs. The chicken coop is run in the style of a World War II POW camp, with the chickens accountable for the number of eggs they lay daily. Tweedy is more dim-witted and believes the chickens are plotting against them, much to Mrs. Tweedy is the malicious brains of the pair, while Mr. The Tweedy's are a middle-aged couple who run a struggling British chicken farm somewhere in Yorkshire of England. The plot centres on a collection of British chickens who see a smooth-talking Rhode Island Red named Rocky as their only hope to escape from certain death when the owners of their farm decide to move from selling eggs to selling chicken pot pies. It is a pastiche of and homage to The Great Escape the chicken coop in the opening shot deliberately looks like a POW internment camp, complete with what looks like a guard emplacement (it's actually a water tank). Chicken Run received widespread critical acclaim and was a box office hit, grossing $224 million worldwide against its $45 million budget. The film features the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Timothy Spall, Phil Daniels, Tony Haygarth, and Miranda Richardson. It was the first feature-length film to be produced by the Academy Award Winning creators of Wallace & Gromit and the first produced in partnership with DreamWorks, which co-financed the film (along with Pathé) and distributed the film in America. In 2016, Welker was honored with an Emmy Award for his lifetime achievement.“ There's nothing more determined than poultry with a plan.” ―TaglineĬhicken Run is a 2000 British American stop-motion animation family film produced by Aardman Animations, DreamWorks Animation, and directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park. He is best known for voicing Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo from the Scooby-Doo franchise (the former since the franchise's inception in 1969 and the latter since 2002), Megatron and Soundwave in the Transformers franchise, and Nibbler on Futurama. Welker was the highest-grossing actor of all-time until 2011, where he was surpassed by Samuel L. Most notably Mouse Hunt, Paulie, The Cat in The Hat, Transformers, Hotel for Dogs, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. He also played Grandpa Mort in All Hail King Julien, and starred in many of DreamWorks’ Live Action films. Chew in The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Termites in Antz, Willie in Madagascar, Sonya in Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, and Crows #1 in Turbo. He performed the voices of Altivo in The Road to El Dorado, Dragon in Shrek, Shrek 4-D, Shrek 2, Shrek the Third, Shrek the Halls and Shrek Forever After, animal vocal effects in Puss in Boots, Spike in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, animal vocal effects in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, animal vocal effects in Over the Hedge, Wolf Slashers in Kung Fu Panda 2, Insectosaurus in Monsters vs. 1967-present Source Franklin Wendell "Frank" Welker (born March 12, 1946) is an American actor who specializes in voice acting and has contributed character voices and other vocal sound effects to television and motion pictures.
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