I've been thinking over the many references "chicken run" has, and aside from the star wars references ("look at the size of that thing", etc), the indiana jones references (rolling gears chasing the two chickens in the pie machine, etc), star trek references (I need more power, etc), and the references to the WW1/WW2 prisoner camp escape movies, there are some other I most likely missed. Feel free to post your observations and interpretations.
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There's a Blues Brothers reference when the two rats are dressed in suits and dancing on one of the beams in the barn - if I remember rightly they're also playing Flip Flop Fly (a Blues Brothers track) at that time as well. There are loads of references all the way through, but I can't remember any of the others off hand.
shareBasically, the entire movie is a "great escape" parody.
"Whatever are you doing in such a nasty place?"
The main hut, hut 17, is a direct reference to Stalag 17
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In the new Harry Potter movie, The Prisoner of Azkaban, Timothy Spall plays Peter Pettigrew, who can turn into a rat at will. Guess what Spall voices here? A rat.
"The following occurs between (time frame) on the day of the California Presidential Primary. Events occur in real time."
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Also, in The Great Escape, they had all the meetings in hut 17.
J.P.
Favourite Films - (No Order)
Apollo 13
The Shawshank Redemption
Notting Hill
There is a reference to Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds Supermarionation television program. While the chickens are having a big planning meeting, the farmer approaches, Fowler yells, "Operation Coverup," and the chickens quickly race to make everything in the coop appear normal. This is just what Jeff Tracey would do in the television series.
This alone wouldn't be quite enough to convince me, but there's a scene in Nick Park's short film, A Close Shave, which is an obvious nod (right down to the background music) to the Thunderbird 2 launch sequence.
Lots of references to "Braveheart" as well (also starring Mel Gibson) when he cries "Freedom" and says he's from the land of the free and the Brave
There was also a Star Trek reference. When the plane is taking off and Ms. Tweedy grabs the lights, the chicken piloting the plane yells out "What the dickens was that?" and the reply was "Its a cling on (Klingon) Captain, and I don't know if the engines can take anymore!"
Pretty funny!
BEN
"Back 2 The Future" at the end where the plane graps the lightballs and our hero plays Doc 2 raise the ramp !!!
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I think you analized this movie way too much, weather it be compleatly true the very fact you had to point it out to the rest of us, only makes you like a compleat loser
shareNone of the other replies mention references to "Flight of the Phoenix" in Chicken Run. For one thing, they make an airplane from scratch just as in Flight of the Phoneix. And when the rooster says that he can't actually fly the plane, he was only a mascot and not a pilot ("the RAF wouldn't allow a chicken to fly anything as complex as an airplane!"). This recalls the part in "Flight of the Phoenix" where its revealed that the airplane designer has never actually designed real airplanes -- only models.
shareHow about Air Force 1, the scene where Ginger is strugling with Mrs. Tweety on the plane while cockpit door is open.
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