Chicken Run 2 breaks Rotten Tomatoes record for Netflix with string of rave reviews
CHICKEN Run: Dawn of the Nuggets has set a new record after earning the highest-ever audience score for any Aardman animated feature to date.
Since landing on its platform, the new claymation film has topped Netflix‘s most-watched charts over the last few weeks.
The streamer’s most recent No. 1 movie, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, has reached new heights on review-aggregation platform Rotten Tomatoes.
Chicken Run 2 follows a young, intelligent hen called Ginger voiced by Thandiwe Newton as she tries to build a peaceful and safe sanctuary far away from Tweedy Farm, the grim chicken coop she and her partner Rocky voiced by Zachary Levi escaped from in the first film.
After they welcome their daughter Molly portrayed by Bella Ramsey into the world and their new home, the couple seemingly believe that they’ve found their “happily ever after”.
A whole new adventure starts as Ginger, Rocky and Molly are thrust into danger when the whole of chicken-kind faces a “terrible new threat”.
The official logline reads: “For Ginger and her team, even if it means putting their own hard-won freedom at risk – this time, they’re breaking in!”
The follow-up to Aardman Animations’ 2000 blockbuster has obtained a combined audience score of 86 per cent, signifying the percentage of viewers who rated a movie or show positively.
The original Chicken Run gained a viewership score of 65 per cent, with other Aardman films such as Flushed Away obtaining 65 per cent, Shaun the Sheep gaining 81 per cent, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit gaining 79 per cent.
The sequel also earned a Certified Fresh rating of 79 per cent on the Tomatometer, with primarily positive viewer reviews.
The Independent gave the film three stars and described the film as “an Ocean’s Eleven-style heist mixed with Mission: Impossible”, praising Dawn of the Nugget as a “convenient, but clever, reversal of the previous film’s parody of The Great Escape”.
However despite its success the sequel has also ran into some controversy with its ‘ageist’ cast shake-up.
This controversy came after 55-year-old actress Julia Sawalha claimed that she had been dropped as a cast member from Dawn of the Nugget after being “informed out of the blue, via email” that her voice “now sounds ‘too old’ and they want a younger actress to reprise the role”.
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nuggets was released on the streaming platform on December 8 and is availablen to watch now.