Chicken Run comes from Nick Park and Peter Lord's Aardman ... and his domineering wife (with Miranda Richardson's voice) has a presence as cold and metallic as Miss Murdstone in David Copperfield.

A voice off-camera is heard encouraging the chicken: "Oh my God. Go, run little chicken, run!" As the eagle draws closer, the voice continues: "Go, chicken go. Make it to the coop. Please ...