Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 15 Dec 2023
• Country: United Kingdom, United States, France
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8337264/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/chicken_run_dawn_of_the_nugget
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 1080p
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
• Runtime: 101 min
• Writer: Karey Kirkpatrick, John O’Farrell, Rachel Tunnard
• Director: Sam Fell
• Cast: Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey
• Keywords: chicken, sequel, stop motion, animal, reboot, claymation,

	6.4/10
	79% – Critics
	75% – Audience

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget Storyline

Having pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back on the mainland the whole of chicken-kind faces a new and terrible threat. For Ginger and her team, even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk – this time, they’re breaking in.—Aardman Animations

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Mission Impossible chicken style.

This sequel to ‘Chicken Run’ arrives after 23 years, but don’t worry, being animated the returning cast haven’t aged a bit! Although the story picks up where the original left off, this is an entirely new adventure and you don’t really have to see the first film to follow the story, although it is highly recommended. The opening to ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ recaps the events of the first film in a nutshell.

The chickens are living happily on an island away from humans, and Ginger and Rocky starts a family. Their daughter is Molly. No sooner has she become a teenager than she becomes curious about the world and what lies on the other side of the lake. When trucks arrive and start clearing the forest, the chickens devise a plan to shelter themselves from human vision, but Molly wants to explore…and so she does.

She befriends a chicken named Frizzle, and together the head to Fun-Land Farms where they believe chickens to live happy lives, according to an advert they saw. Off course the farms are not what it seems, and they soon get into trouble.

It’s up to Ginger, Rocky and some of their friends to save them. Last time they broke out of a chicken farm; this time they’re breaking in. A familiar antagonist from the first film returns, as well, but I won’t spoil it for you.

I enjoyed the stop-motion animation, the characters, their adventures, and the humour. This is a delightful film young and old can enjoy. The film also illustrates how the younger generation are not always appreciative of what their parents went through to ensure their survival, and I don’t think youngsters watching this will fully understand. These are lessons a mature audience will relate to.

As much as I enjoyed ‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’, I enjoyed ‘Chicken Run’ more, because it was simpler and funnier.

Not worth the wait.

There are some prequels or sequels that no one asked for, but end up being happy that they happened anyway.

This sadly isn’t one one of them.

I was already upset by the fact that many of the core voice actors were being replaced. Mel Gibson I could understand for obvious reasons, but the excuse for Julie Sawalha’s exclusion was not acceptable. I do believe the real reason was because Sawalha is no longer famous, while Thandi (or Thandiwe) Newton, her replacement, is a big name in the industry. This is a growing trend in modern animation where famous actors are favoured to voice cartoon characters rather than actual voice actors.

At one point Ginger fearfully says “that voice!” before the reveal of the return of Mrs Tweedy. It would have been extremely awkward if Miranda Richardson was no longer voicing the villain.

The story itself is a little too similar to the first Chicken Run and the animation looks too shiny and CGIed, despite most of it being clay-animation. The stakes were not really as high, and the characters were not as fleshed out as they were in the first film.

My favourite character is still Fowler, as he was still hilarious. And unlike the new voices for the other main characters, David Bradley does a great job here.

The humour in the first film was intelligent and witty. But despite most of the film still being proudly British (even including a chicken character with a Scouse accent) , the magic and the passion found in the first film has dampened down quite a lot here.

Kids will no doubt enjoy it. But after 23 years, I wasn’t all that impressed.

Human chickens or chicken humans?

I was keen to see this movie, as I loved the original Chicken Run.

It’s a long time since the first movie, so naturally the voice actors have changed. This was OK, except I thought Thandiwe Newton sounded a bit too ” posh” to play Ginger. I got used to it (love Thandiwe!), but I did miss Julia Sawalha and I think the original had a better cast.

The main problem for me was the way the chickens are now portrayed. In the first movie, they were hens living at a poultry farm, having to lay a certain number of eggs each day, or risk getting topped by the farmer’s wife. So they were basically chickens living like chickens. What made it amusing, of course, was the hens’ human qualities, and the fact that whole thing ran like the satirisation of a prisoner-of-war escape movie.

However in the sequel, all pretence at “chicken life” has gone; the chickens live exactly like humans, and are in effect just humans who look like chickens. Egg laying is a rare event; it’s all farming and building and lounging in deck chairs sipping drinks. The spivvy rats with their dodgy goods are now lovable. And to make matters worse, Rocky and Ginger have a ghastly brat of a kid called Molly.

As the plot of this movie is also pretty weak, I found it hard to get involved. God forgive me, I was dying for Molly to get turned into a chicken nugget.

Didn’t work for me. I find it hard to care about chickens who have turned into humans.