# Chicken Run!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 26, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588 "2000-05-26T11:14:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/1 "2000-05-26T11:14:38Z")
You’ve seen the previews! Academy-Award winners Nick Park and Aardman Animation are coming out with a full-length movie!! Woohoo!!! ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/2 "2000-05-26T13:47:18Z")
And I for one, cannot wait! I have all the Wallace and Grommit tapes, which I absolutely love. But I cannot convince my girl to watch them. She just doesn’t seem interested, for whatever reason. “Honey, they’re hysterical!” I say. “Eh…” she replies. “There’s this diabolical penguin jewel theif and mechanized pants that run all over town, and the toy train…” “Eh…” “Well, they fly to the moon and run into this robot…” “Eh…” “Sheep… There’s sheep…” I don’t know why she just doesn’t want to watch them. I’m going to force her to, and then she’ll see that I’m right. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/3 "2000-05-26T13:51:39Z")
Woohoo! Mel Gibson, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha!! Yeah! This is gonna be a cooool movie. Anything Aardman does rocks, even Wat the Pig. Can’t wait can’t wait can’t wait… ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/4 "2000-05-26T14:11:40Z")
I’ll be there in the theatre with you guys. Heck, I’ll buy the popcorn if someone else gets the sodas. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/5 "2000-05-26T14:12:26Z")
Include me in the “Holy Shit, I can’t Wait!” Crowd. W&G rocks, as does the “creature comforts” tape. Anyone else like to get baked and wathced these things? I’m gonna be high as a kite when I go see Chicken Run. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/6 "2000-05-26T14:15:30Z")
That should read “watch”, not “wathced”. No, I’m not baked now. Maybe I should be, it would give me an excuse… ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/7 "2000-05-26T14:29:47Z")
Add two, possibly three here. Mrs. O and I been waiting for this one to come out since we saw the trailers at “Sixth Sense”. We got all three tapes, seen ‘Creature Comforts’ on the Net, and we’re pumped for this one. I’d suggest the baked approach to Mrs. O but I believe we’ll be taking the Tzeroling along\* when we go. \*Tzeroling along… sounds like some sort of refrain to a ballad or something. Tzerolingalong, Tzerolingalong… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/8 "2000-05-26T14:31:01Z")
It’s circled on my calendar. I first heard of it when we took our daughter to “Road to El Dorado.” During the coming attraction, the first thing you see is the credit “Aardman Animation.” Me (thinking): “Aardman. Aardman. I _know_ that name. It’s . . . (the penny drops). . . Nick Park!” I turn to my daughter. “That’s Nick Park!” Daughter: “Who?” Me: “Nick Park . . . you know, Wallace and Gromit!” We’re there. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/9 "2000-05-26T14:51:49Z")
I’ve been waiting for this for over a year. I saw a preview on my DVD for Prince of Egypt and have been patiently awaiting the release. The wife and I will certaily be there! ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/10 "2000-05-26T16:48:48Z")
I first heard of chicken run while on an airplane a couple of weeks ago. I was reading Entertainment Weekly and there was a short blurb about it. I’ve never been more impatient to get off a plane than that day. I wanted to get onto the net and find out more, but I was on a flight from Sydney to LA, and had another 9 hours to go. Then a 4 hour layover and a 6-hour flight to Boston. Grrr. I didn’t know what they were working on, but sincerely hoped they were working on SOMETHING since we hadn’t gotten anything new in far too long. When I did get home we watched all 3 W&Gs again, plus the Creature Comforts, Wat’s Pig, etc tape. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/11 "2000-05-26T22:54:01Z")
_Chicken Run_ is far and away my #1 most-anticipated movie of 2000. If I were forced to choose only one new film to watch this year (which would be tough – I usually see around 150), _Chicken Run_ would be it. Potentially bad news, though: It’s right in the thick of a very competitive couple of weeks, in the heart of summer. _Chicken Run_ comes out June 23. The week before, Disney sends its post-IMAX _Fantasia 2000_ to the regular multiplexes, with _Shaft_ and _Titan A.E._ both opening as well. The week following are three even bigger films: _The Patriot_, _The Perfect Storm_ (both of which are supposed to be excellent), and _The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle_, which has mixed buzz but will still be a formidable film marketing-wise. And opening on the same day as _Chicken Run_ is _Me, Myself & Irene_, the new film reuniting directors Peter & Bobby Farrelly (_There’s Something About Mary_) with their _Dumb and Dumber_ star Jim Carrey. _Chicken Run_ is still first on my list, but given the competition, I worry it’s going to get buried… ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/12 "2000-05-27T01:09:51Z")
I absolutely love wallace and gromit, and I’m totally awaiting the premiere of CHICKEN RUN, especially after seeing the preview for it a few weeks ago in the theaters. “But I don’t want to be a pie!!!” heehee, can’t wait. ---
**Author:** ![Brunetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@Brunetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brunetter)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2000, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/13 "2000-05-27T02:52:22Z")
Reservoir Dog … I’d watch those tapes with ya. Anytime. You wouldn’t even have to resort to touting sheep as a selling feature. By the way, I would just about die of ecstasy if MY guy every wanted to watch a comedy as opposed to 6-guys-dying-per-minute movie. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/14 "2000-05-28T22:31:54Z")
The Family Dave-Guy will be there as well. We are rabid Wallace and Gromit fans (when my son was about 4 years old, he heard my daughter playing one of the W&G tapes. He just looked at me and said, “I love Gromit.”) Aardman Studios kicks ace in the claymation department. I hope the film does well at the box office, but even if it doesn’t, I’m anticipating buying it when the video becomes available. That stuff just fascinates me, even after repeated viewings. ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicken-run/20588/15 "2000-05-28T23:46:59Z")
This looks GREAT! Just saw the previews today while watching Galaxy Quest (Don’t ask :() Can’t wait! I miss my Wallace & Grommit boxed set. My damn Ex took it!