Adam Mulcahy's Chicken Run Research

Question answers based on the film:
1. Who do you think the different target audiences could be and why?
The target audience could be children because it is an animated film which revolves around unrealistic plot devices such as Chickens being able to talk. However, older adults could be the target audience as the plot revolves around the film 'The Great Escape' which only adults will have seen. The film also has many other references to other films but only minor.

2. Would you class this as a children's film and why?
- Yes because the rat characters tell many jokes which revolve around toilet humour.
- The colours are really defined and bright so they stand out to children.
- The obscure characteristics of the chickens would make children laugh.



Institutional Information
Directors: Peter Lord/Nick Park
Writers: Peter Lord/Nick Park
Stars: Mel Gibson/Julia Sawahla/ Phil Daniels
Release date: 30 June 2000
Genre: Family and Comedy
Budget: $42,000,000
Gross: $106,793,915
Production company: Dreamworks SKG
Run time: 84 minutes

References to: 
The Wooden Horse (1950)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
A Town Like Alice (1956)
Separate Tables (1958)
The Great Escape (1963)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
"Star Trek" (1966)
The Italian Job (1969)
Escape of the Birdmen (1971)
Enter the Dragon (1973)
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Hooper (1978)
Alien (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
"Tenko" (1981)
Rocky III (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
"The Simpsons" (1989)
Silent Cries (1993)
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (1993)
Braveheart (1995)
Rocky (1995)
Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave (1995)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Gladiator (2000)