Director: Arjan Wilschut
Release Date: 2006
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘Hard Boiled Chicken’ is a short gag short about a rooster and a chicken who try to save their egg from the farmer.
The film is shot in sepia tones, and uses simple comic designs on the chickens, while the cat and the farmer are a little more elaborate in design. The short partly evokes the atmosphere of a film noir detective, but this idea is not worked out well (for example, the short also features a totally unrelated The Matrix-inspired moment), and in the end the short falls short in its inconsistency. Yet, ‘Hard Boiled Chicken’ is a small, gentle film, and excellent for children.
Watch ‘Hard Boiled Chicken’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Hard Boiled Chicken’ is available as a bonus on the DVD ‘Animazing! – Mindblowing Animation Films Supportes by the Netherlands Film Fund 1998-2008’ and on the DVD ‘Independent Animation from The Netherlands Volume 2’
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March 23, 2019 at 01:07
Roger Crownover
I useally don’t like this what I call block and tackle models of the char’s , but this short make this style work…the gags are not really out there like a Tex Avery or Robert Clampett..but it does the job of an us vs. them or in this case him the farmer…story line, and the direction of the camera placement as it were is spot on.