Chicken Run
BBC1 (NOT WALES)
2.35PM - 3.55PM ★★★★ ANIMATION Battery farm chickens plot to escape in this super cartoon from the team behind Wallace and Gromit. The film has exceptional fun sending up prisoner-of-war films as a wise-cracking rooster called
Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson) joins forces with true Brit camp leader Ginger (Julia Sawalha). The extended gag in which Rocky and Ginger tumble into a pie-making machine is slapstick silliness of the most creative kind.
Dirs: Peter Lord, Nick Park 2000, U
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