Chicken Run

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	Phil Daniels	Fetcher
	Lynn Ferguson	Mac
	Mel Gibson	Rocky
	Tony Haygarth	Mr. Tweedy
	Jane Horrocks	Babs
	Miranda Richardson	Mrs. Tweedy
	Julia Sawalha	Ginger
	Timothy Spall	Nick
	Imelda Staunton	Bunty
	Benjamin Whitrow	Fowler
	Jo Allen	Additional Chicken
	Lisa Kay	Additional Chicken
	Peter Sallis	Wallace
	John Sharian	Circus Man
	Wyatt Shears	Additional Chicken

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Director	Peter Lord
	Nick Park
Writer	Peter Lord, Nick Park, Karey Kirkpatrick, Mark Burton, John O'Farrell
Producer	Jake Eberts, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Peter Lord, Nick Park, Jacky Priddle, Michael Rose, Carla Shelley, David Sproxton, Lenny Young
Musician	Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell
Photography	Simon Jacobs, Andy MacCormack, Tristan Oliver, Frank Passingham, Dave Alex Riddett, Michael Rose, Carla Shelley, David Sproxton, Lenny Young, Paul Smith

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Story Synopsis:
The Academy Award®-winning creators of Wallace and Gromit, Peter Lord and Nick Park have fashioned their first feature film: Chicken Run. Using the painstaking art of claymation, the story begins at an English chicken farm run by Mrs. Tweedy (Richardson). The farm fowl understand their existence is purely for the inevitiable moment when they will end up gracing the dinner table of some hungry family. But with the arrival of Rocky (Gibson), a cocky rooster, this resignation will soon change as he motivates the flock-especially the lovely Ginger (Sawalha)-into escaping their fate. (Laurie Sevano)

DVD Picture:
The anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 DVD is an egg-ceptional transfer that exhibits impeccable detail and clarity into backgrounds. Images are sharp with egg-cellent contrast throughout. The clay animation egg-xhibits fully saturated, vibrant colors and deep, pure blacks. I did not notice any major distractions for a picture that will surely please. (Suzanne Hodges)

Soundtrack:
Chicken Run contains two discrete mixes on this DVD, a 5.1-channel Dolby Digital Surround EX track as well a DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 track. When the soundfield is fully engaged as in chapter 15 "Chickens Go In, Pies Come Out," Chicken Run can be an exciting and involving sonic experience. The surrounds and surround back channel are used to great effect to heighten the suspense and comedy of this scene as every cog and gear in the nefarious chicken pie machine is resolved, creating a spatially dramatic surround sound experience. The LFE channel’s impact is felt during this scene as well, providing a substantial augmentation of low frequency content. But throughout much of the movie the surrounds and LFE channels are largely absent, with only occasional surround envelopment and the occasional spot effect placed in the surround back channel. I wish the filmmakers had made more of this soundtrack as exciting as chapter 15. The DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 track is noticeably more involving during the active segments of the soundtrack, with superior low level detail and greater high frequency extension, and a more robust and articulate LFE. The surround back channel is better defined and the surrounds image wider during these sequences with the DTS-ES Discrete, an observation that holds during matrixed playback as well (although not to as high a degree obviously.) The fidelity of Chicken Run’s soundtrack is bright, a condition that’s somewhat exacerbated by to the greater high frequency extension of the DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 track. The DTS-ES Discrete 6.1 track is nevertheless the preferred sonic experience providing a fuller and better defined spatial experience compared to the Dolby Digital Surround EX track. (Shane Buettner)

This Disc Contains The Following WSR-Rated Superb Qualities:
Superb Special Visual Effects Quality
Superb Color Fidelity
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