Chicken Run

Chicken Run (2000)

29 corrected entries

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Corrected entry: If you watch Ginger and Rocky flying out of the machine frame by frame, you'll see that they suddenly flip from being feet-first to head-first.

Correction: The requirement to use "frame by frame" invalidates this 'error'.

Corrected entry: There are several points throughout the film where you can see a fence go right through the farm. This is proved by the fact that there are huts on either side of the fence.

Correction: And this is a film mistake because?

Corrected entry: When they are all lined up, Ginger hands Mac the plan for the escape. Mac wrongly reads it and says about going under the fence, then Ginger turns it. Then Mac realises they go over the fence. But Ginger only turned it 90 degrees. If Mac was to read the plan properly, it should have been 180 degrees.

Correction: Mac could have been looking at the chickens as though they were going under (think of them on their bellies). By turning the paper 90 degrees, the chickens would have been standing upright, in a climbing position, therefore going 'over' the fence.

Corrected entry: Its funny that how Mrs Tweedy who says that the chickens "are not organized" can see them all stand in line on role call, and not move a muscle.

keith summers

Correction: This isn't what she means by "organized". She thinks that they just come to the role call out of fear. They don't come together for secret meetings to plan a way to escape.

Corrected entry: After take-off, the chickens fly the 'crate' away from the farmhouse, and even just over the Mrs Tweedy's Chicken Pies sign, yet Mrs Tweedy still manages to enter the farm house via the round window in the farmhouse, and this would have only been possible if a number of about turns were made, which we would have noticed during the action with the axe, etc.

Correction: Why "would it have been noticed"? That would require reference points on the ground, and the 'crate' is flying too fast to register them. It is entirely possible that Fowler - who has never flown before - is circling the farm trying to regain control after Mrs Tweedy's weight was added to the plane, affecting his controls.

Corrected entry: The film takes place in the 1950s, but the song "Flip Flop and Fly" by the Blues Brothers that the chickens play at the dance was not written until 1978.

Correction: Flip Flop and Fly was written by Jesse Stone, under the pseudonym of Charles Calhoun, and Lou Willie Turner in the mid-fifties. The version heard in the film is the original, performed by Ellis Hall.

Tailkinker

Corrected entry: When Babs is helping to make the plane, her scissors have normal steel ends. But when Ginger uses them on the plane, the ends are plastic coated.

Correction: Who says she only has one pair of scissors? One could be a pair stolen by the rats and the other her normal sewing scissors.

Corrected entry: After Rocky collides into the flower bed at the start, the chickens help him in and if you look closely at his chest you can see a faint thumbprint on it.

Correction: We never even see Rocky being brought into the hut in this scene. All that happens is that Mr. Tweedy comes outside to see what happened, and Ginger tells the chickens to get him inside. The next time we see Rocky, he is lying on a bed inside the hut.

Corrected entry: When Nick and Fetcher bring the radio into the pen, it is about as tall as Rocky. Yet later, when he is on the tricycle, it is small enough to put in a little basket. How is this possible?

Correction: The radio on Rocky's tricycle is different to the radio in the hut when they are throwing a party. The big radio is blue, and the other on Rocky's tricycle is white.

Chicken Run mistake picture

Continuity mistake: Mrs. Tweedy stretches her gloves out and releases them. The chickens gulp and Mrs. Tweedy walks away. Between these two shots of Mrs. Tweedy, the clouds behind her obviously change.

More mistakes in Chicken Run

Babs: Hello, Ginger. Back from holiday?
Ginger: I wasn't on holiday, I was in solitary confinement.
Babs: It's nice to get a little time to yourself, isn't it?

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Trivia: As Rocky flies his tricycle over the fence to aid Ginger with the launch ramp, he flashes the European "flipping the bird sign" - index and middle fingers extended - to Mrs. Tweedy.

Brenda Elzin

More trivia for Chicken Run

Question: Did anyone catch what Mac is talking about thrust? Or is she just mumbling?

Answer: The first bit is "Thrust! I went over my calculations, hen, and I figure that the key element we're missing is thrust". Rocky says that he didn't catch a word of it, and Mac replies "Thrust! Other birds like ducks and geese, when they take off, what do they have? Thrust!"

Tailkinker

Answer: Mac said, "Thrust! The key element is thrust! Other birds, like ducks and geese, when they take off, what do they have? Thrust!"

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