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 It's been nearly a quarter of a century since Aardman invented its first feature film, and the generation that opted for "Chicken Run," excited by the novelty of watching a pseudo-serious genre film made silly by an ensemble of poultry in stop-motion, has grown. until they are parents. Distributed by DreamWorks, the 2000 cartoon reimagined “The Great Escape” with chickens, as a doomed flock plots to fly into the chicken coop of a World War II-style concentration camp run by the intimidating Mrs. Tweedy. In the tasty (if juvenile) Netflix-commissioned sequel, “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget,” it's the other way around... or, as the passionate Ginger (Thandiwe Newton) says in her trailer-ready motivational speech. “Last time we escaped from a chicken farm. Well, this time we're going in! While the tongue-in-cheek original was a parody of war movies, “Nugget” serves as a riff on “Mission: Impossible”-style action movies, putting Ginger in charge of an operation to ...