The chickens of Tweedy Chicken Farm are generally content, with the possible exception of Ginger (Julia Sawalha). She seems to be the only one who realizes that things may be fine if you are laying eggs, but as soon as the eggs stop, things aren't so good for chickens.
Let's face it, chickens may not be the brightest, but Ginger is a different sort, so she's constantly planning how to escape from the farm. She just has one problem, and that's that to get one or two chickens out is easy. To get the whole lot out is a different matter entirely.
One day, as the chickens are going about their normal business, they get a visitor from outside - quite unusual indeed, but even more so because he arrives by flying, and most chickens can't fly. Ginger is downright ecstatic.
Their new visitor, Rocky (voiced by Mel Gibson) is different not just because he's a male but because of his previously-announced ability to fly. So Ginger promptly recruits him to teach the girls how to fly.
He'd show them, but he hurt his own wing when he landed. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to tell them that he can't actually fly - he only arrived by way of cannon from the local circus. But for now, he'll be content to accept the accolades and attention from all the womenfolk.
In the meantime, he has them working out and practicing their flying moves while they continue to (mostly) lay eggs. It seems, however, that some of them have forgotten to concentrate on doing so, but for once it's not going to cost them their lives. Instead, the Tweedys simply come to check up on their size and focus on their new contraption. There's no telling what it is, however.
That is, until one night when they come and get Ginger and take her inside. Then she sees that it's a pie-making machine. They thrust her inside, and Rocky comes to her rescue, and in the process of escaping, they manage to do some damage to the machine. It really just delays the inevitable, however, and they need to escape and do so now!
And that leads to another problem, because by then Rocky's arm has healed. He decides that he can't "teach" the other chickens to fly, and he can't save them, so he just takes off on his own. That leaves Ginger and the rest of the chickens to figure out how to save themselves before the Tweedys fix their infernal machine.
Ginger and the other chickens start building, and create a rather impressive flying chicken, which they start down their "runway" just as Mister Tweedy comes out to collect them for the machine. Just before he can get them, however, Rocky returns to help them out, and sure enough, they all manage to escape safely to their own little haven over the hill.
Rated G.
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