a film made out of sheer greed that misunderstands that a film has to be wanted by literally anyone to make money. 

Made under the assumption this frankly C-List character has enough fans to carry it, but made as if the film is a salmon swimming against the current of what this character is. The poster is the final shot where they desperately try to make him look like anything that resembles the source material and set up a sequel.…

Hearing that Aardman were working on a sequel to Chicken Run is enough to have anyone (with taste) excited. The end result is enough to have anyone (with taste) disappointed.

The first film's grounded locations lent themselves well to showing off the tactility of the medium-wooden chicken huts, rusted fencing, fields dense with mud, even the film's most fantastical set-the pie machine-worked within the realistic farmyard Aardman had crafted.

Dawn of the Nugget carries over some of this but finds…