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Chicken Run Official Site Rated G **** of **** Length: 85 minutes Written & Directed: Nick Park and Peter Lord Chicken Run Entertains in nearly every way possible.  How could a movie about chickens attempting escape from a farm be fun for all.  The humor is richly distributed in several ways, visually, situationally, verbally, and so on such that everyone will have plenty of reason to chuckle at the chickens.  For the kids, there is plenty of physical humor and action, and for the adults there is that and the obvious romantic subplot done in a way that you see in real life.  The homage paying references to The Great Escape and Stalag 17 are done well.  The issue of the death machine was done with enough cartoonish silliness so as to not be a problem for the kids, while the teen and adult viewers could not help but be mindful that humans have actually done this to other humans.  The adventure of rescue and escape from the chicken pie machine was very busy, and actually got my active 3-year-old niece to stand still while it was happening!  The escape in the end was very active as well.  This is one of this year's best films because it is so good at it's intention of being completely entertaining, and the story is cohesive.  The interaction between the characters was well translated, so you felt quite comfortable listening to talking pieces of clay in the shape of various poultry.  The characters are all humorous and have separate personalities, mostly British, that help develop the prisoner of war camp parallel into the chicken farm you see.  Several subplots within and between characters makes for a solid story that you are not used to seeing in movies these days.  This claymation flick should be a kick in the pants for all those that though CGI was going to make everything else obsolete.