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Chicken Run is my favorite Aardman feature so this announcement both excites and worries me. I can't help but feel a little disappointed that Aardman has hopped on the sequel train with Shaun the Sheep 2 and now Chicken Run 2.

'Chicken Run' Sequel in Works at Aardman (Exclusive)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ ... an-1098310

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I'm really excited to see how this turns out. If worse comes to worse, you can always pretend the sequel doesn't exist. I'm hoping for the best myself.

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Listening to most often lately:
TLM ~ "Part of Your World" & Reprise & Choral Ending
TLM ~ "Intro Ursula" / "Poor Unfortunate Souls" / "Ursula's Defeat"
TLM ~ "Under the Sea"

I suspect Aardman's decision to start making sequels may be diminishing returns at the box office - in the USA at least. They know the original Chicken Run is popular and highly-regarded and are trying to exploit that. Perhaps if they get back on their feet they will start announcing original projects again.

I just wish The Pirates! had done enough at the box office for it to get a sequel(s). I strangely liked that film (not something I thought I would've enjoyed), and it was disappointing to read that they would've made follow-ups if it had only done a little more.

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Listening to most often lately:
TLM ~ "Part of Your World" & Reprise & Choral Ending
TLM ~ "Intro Ursula" / "Poor Unfortunate Souls" / "Ursula's Defeat"
TLM ~ "Under the Sea"

That is indeed a shame. The Pirates! was rollicking good fun.

I wonder what the real Queen Victoria would make of it if she were to watch it.

I just went ahead and ordered the original Chicken Run on blu-ray from Amazon Germany. Why on earth is this film still not available on blu-ray in its native UK?

DreamWorks/Universal please note that I would also appreciate the vaults opening up for an HD presentation of Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away.

I too long for a proper 4k release of all the above Chicken Run is epic and I hold it in high regard! I'm a sucker for Mrs Tweedy:-p Maybe they get to know some Turkeys and ruin Thanksgiving this time

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When it comes to brains, I got the lion-share,
but when it comes to bruth strength, I'm afraid I'm at the shallow end of the gene pool

Pity Free Birds did that already. Somehow I cannot see Aardman making a movie involving Thanksgiving, though. It is an exclusively American holiday and Aardman's films are very, very British.

In other news: I have since received the Chicken Run blu-ray and watched it. AV quality is fine, though I would have liked grain to be more finely resolved. I suspect they used an older master for it, but it's ok. Detail is decent. No issues to report in the audio department.