Saturday, December 23, 2023
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
This is the sequel to the 2000 animated comedy about chickens flying the coop à la “Stalag 17”/“The Great Escape” style. Back are Rocky & Ginger but now they have a baby girl named Molly. These escapee chickens have found sanctuary living on a quiet river island, but they become apprehensive & worried when they notice human activity just across the river. Molly becomes curious about these goings-on & tries to see for herself despite her parents being evasive about her questions & overprotective of their child. When Molly becomes captive at Mrs. Treedy’s new advanced high-tech poultry farm, Rocky, Ginger, & company must break into the Fun-Land Farms facility & rescue their daughter. This is good entertaining family fun as these chickens must escape the clutches of their past nemeses again. Can they save the day again as they originally did by derailing the chicken pot pies production, but now they must disrupt the chicken nugget manufacturing?
Alien gives it 3 “popcorn” stars out of 4.
