Chicken Run (Disney) "What if..."

Chicken Run is a 2000 stop-motion animated, comedy film produced by Pathé and Aardman Animations in partnership with Walt Disney Feature Animation. Aardman’s first feature-length film and Disney's 40th film was directed by Peter Lord and Nick Park from a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and based on an original story by Lord and Park, after the release of Dinosaur. The film stars the voices of Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Tony Haygarth, Miranda Richardson, Phil Daniels, Lynn Ferguson, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, and Benjamin Whitrow. The plot centres on a group of British anthropomorphic chickens who see an American rooster named Rocky Rhodes as their only hope to escape the farm when their owners want to turn them into meat pies.

Released to critical acclaim, Chicken Run was also a commercial success, grossing over $224 million, becoming the highest-grossing stop-motion animated film in history and the biggest success in Disney Animation history until The Emperor's New Groove in 2000 doubled it.