Chicken Run [2000]

Chicken Run [2000] Full Story Summary :-

The Tweedys are a grumpy middle-aged couple who run a chicken farm in Yorkshire, England, in the manner of a World War II prisoner of war camp (or a concentration camp). One chicken, Ginger, continually tries to get the chickens (including her best friends Babs and Bunty) to escape from the coop using various plans and contraband obtained from two rats, Nick and Fetcher. The story begins during Ginger's (unsuccessful) attempt at going under the fence. But Ginger is always caught by Mr. Tweedy and his dogs, and while she is kept in solitary confinement in the Coal shed, she comes to realize their only hope of escape is to go over the coop's fence.

After Mrs. Tweedy finds out that one of the chickens, Edwina, has laid no eggs, Mrs. Tweedy kills her with a hatchet. Ginger tells Nick and Fetcher to find parts for a catapult, but Nick and Fetcher are tired of being paid with chicken food and want her to give them eggs in exchange instead.

Mrs. Tweedy, struggling to keep the farm financially viable on dwindling egg production ("I'm sick and tired of making miniscule profits"), notices a magazine advertising poultry products; she decides to convert the farm from egg production to chicken pies, and orders a giant pie-making machine. Mr. Tweedy believes the chickens are organising a big escape, but Mrs. Tweedy dismisses the idea as a ridiculous notion and does so in a rude, domineering manner. While the Tweedys await delivery, Ginger tries to keep the chickens' hopes up, but Bunty, a champion egg layer, says that their chances of escaping are a million to one. To this, Ginger responds, "Then there's still a chance." Outside her hut, she cries to herself, wondering why she's trying to lead the chickens and prays for help. An explosion sounds, and a Rhode Island Red rooster named Rocky Rhodes appears to "fly" into the coop, though damaging his wing on landing after crashing into a weather vane and power lines and finally the chicken feed box (the box sprains his wing). While the other hens fawn over him, Ginger convinces Rocky to help teach them how to fly. Fowler, an elderly rooster, doesn't like Rocky as he views all Americans as selfish people (a possible reference to Americans refusing to fight in World War 2 until the Pearl Harbor bombing).

Rocky plays for time by putting the chickens through seemingly-futile training exercises while he tends to his injured wing. At the same time, the Tweedys provide the chickens with more food in order to make them plumper for their pies. Ginger tells them that they're going to be killed with Rocky telling her that if the chickens expect to escape, then they have to remain motivated, but Ginger doesn't see it that way. To prove what he meant, Rocky has Nick and Fetcher bring a radio so that he and the chickens can have a party. Bunty, ironically, is the first to go with the music, followed by Babs, a chicken who is known to knit, and then the rest of the clan. When the pie-making machine soon is completed, Mr. Tweedy is asked to get a chicken for the machine's demonstrations, Mr. Tweedy attempts to put Ginger through the machine, despite his wife saying to keep his suspicions about the chickens in his head. But she is saved by Rocky, and they are able to disable the machine by increasing the gravy pressure with a carrot and jamming some gears with a wrench, giving themselves some more time while Mr. Tweedy tends to its repair. Back at the huts, Rocky gains Fowler's respect and a medal for bravery.

The next day, Ginger finds Rocky has fled, leaving behind the medal and a part of a poster that explains that he was a circus act, only "flying" over the land after being launched out of a cannon. He felt too ashamed to say it and leaves, afraid of how everyone will react. Ginger and the other chickens lose hope of escape. They wonder what was the real reason he left was, which leads to a huge brawl in the mud, until Ginger finds out that Fowler was once an honorary member of the Royal Air Force. With Fowler's knowledge, and with the nervous and scientist-style Mac's aeronautical engineering, they begin working hastily to create a flying machine pedal-powered by the chickens themselves, in secret from Mr. Tweedy, who has become suspicious of the chickens' ingenuity because of the rats sneaking around in gnome statues. The craft is completed even as the repairs on the pie-making machine are completed. As Mr. Tweedy attempts to grab the chickens, he is restrained by the attacking chickens and 'hidden' under one of the coops.

The chickens quickly assemble their plane and attempt to take off, despite Mr. Tweedy's attempt to stop them. Mrs. Tweedy hears the commotion outside and arrives armed with her earlier-used hatchet, attempting to stop the plane from flying by attacking Ginger, swearing that she will be a pie. However, Rocky's return results in her almost getting killed when her hatchet falls out of her hands and lands within inches of her neck; she faints. Rocky and Ginger continue to enable the escape by righting the chickens' makeshift launching ramp (which Mr. Tweedy had knocked down moments earlier), succeed in doing so, and grab onto a string of Christmas lights unceremoniously trailing from the craft. But Mrs. Tweedy (recovered from her shock) is able to grab onto the string of lights before it takes off. Ginger attempts to sever the bond to detach Mrs. Tweedy because, in addition to her threat, her weight is too much for the chickens to keep the plane airborne. She manages to trick Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the light string with her hatchet, just barely escaping death in the process. This causes Mrs. Tweedy to fall right into a vent on the pie-making machine; the machine explodes in a mushroom cloud of gravy as Mrs Tweedy had increased the pressure to maximum speed, destroying the Tweedy's barn and leaving just the door standing. Mr. Tweedy then berates his irate wife for not listening to him about the fact that the chickens were being organized. Mrs. Tweedy growls at him in fury, but is cut short when the door comes down on top of her before she can react (possibly pushed by Mr. Tweedy, as he had enough of her abuse). Rocky, Ginger, and the other chickens celebrate as they fly off and Ginger kisses Rocky. At the end of the film, the chickens have found themselves a protected bird sanctuary in which to live and raise their chicks, with Rocky and Ginger having become a couple. As the credits roll, Nick and Fetcher discuss their plan to open their own chicken farm for eggs leading to the chicken and the egg theory. One becomes confused, and the credits roll.

In a scene during the credits, Nick and Fetcher continue to argue about the theory, but are interrupted by Rocky telling them to be a little quieter. They apologize, but silently insult him and criticise him for his supposed "big shot" personality, proclaiming themselves to be the movie's stars.