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The beauty of Chicken Run is its refusal to accept modernity as having squatting rights in a Yorkshire state of mind. Park's heart is with the comics his dad read.

The action element of the film has the enjoyable verve of the original, particularly when the mechanics of the nugget-maker are involved, but the lack of a tight focus on characters in one place makes the emotional heart of the matter more diffuse.

Corpse Bride is even better than The Nightmare Before Christmas. It displays the imagination of a man, haunted in childhood by the Brothers Grimm, with a twisted sense of humour, steeped in 19th century romanticism.

Two lazy fat cats with accents halve the fun.

The atmosphere and aesthetics are engrossing and go a long way to carrying the show.

John Williams' direction is good, managing to make stage magic look like stage magic while using screen magic to make photographs come alive.

While in plotting terms, the film pretty much stays in the lane you'd expect, it has plenty of heart.

A very effective piece of low budget storytelling.