The Worst Film Ever

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

This is the best possible way you could make a documentary film about chickens. Rather than being a dull, bland, and boring film with a narrator whose voice sounds miserable, you get a bright, quirky, heartwarming and zany look at human eccentricity and the chicken's more interesting and surprisingly intelligent behavior.From a woman who is seen carrying her pet chicken in her pocket book while buying groceries to a man, hilariously, doing impressions of the various calls of chickens to the story of a living headless chicken, this documentary is consistently entertaining and well made. It actually gets even more bizarre than the two early Errol Morris films ("Gates of Heaven" and "Vernon Florida")!The film isn't about the history of chickens at all. I mean, nothing in this film is historical, therefore making "The Natural History of Chickens" a pretty misleading title. So if you're looking for an ACTUAL history of chickens, then you probably shouldn't watch the film. However, if you want to see a really funny and weird doc that is sure to entertain and amuse, this one's totally for you!

This documentary's title and description imply that the movie will at some point locate the chicken within multiple contexts: historical, biological, social, etc. In fact, it merely locates a handful of not particularly interesting people (in this context), each of whom has a different personal relationship to a chicken or a chicken story. My nine-year old, who loves documentaries, kept asking when we'd learn something about actual chickens. Point well taken. True, the movie shows us eggs and takes a brief look into a factory where eggs are laid and collected. By brief, I mean a minute of watching chickens eat food, and a later shot of a conveyor belt transporting eggs. There is no enlargement on why we see this at all, For example, no discussion of the shift from small independent farming to mass production. Or of chicken evolution. Or, really, of any research-based insight. The focus is really on people who can squawk like chickens, a guy whose grandfather had a headless chicken, a woman who dotes on her rooster, and so on. If you're feeling extremely passively voyeuristic and have a fever and so need about an hour's worth of barely related and not very compelling stories about people whose main claim to fame is having a charming little chicken story, then this is the movie for you. This state of mind might also work well with the general sloppiness or perhaps intentional disinterest in stitching a relevant narrative out of footage that seemed more random and aimless as the movie went on.

This was actually a great little project to work on and I had a great time doing it. I was contacted by the Sound Designer Paul Ottoson because he knew that I had done voice over recording in the past, as well as worked as an ADR recordist and Editor on several films. I spent many hours trying desperately to mimic the "feelings" of each chicken portrayed in this documentary. (Which by the way is no small task even for veteran voice over talents). Needless to say, I was very disappointed to finally get my own copy of this DVD only to find out that after 3 HOURS of ADR recording, I did NOT receive my credit for voicing ALL THESE CHICKENS! I know it's silly, but it meant something to me. Too bad , Mark.Kim Beltran (formerly Kim Bartlein) Voice Over

This was an amazing film. We watched it in Bio whilst coloring in diagrams of photosynthesis (my chloroplasts were pink!), and I was expecting something boring on eggs and whatnot.Instead, it introduced us to a "plucky farmer" who saved her frozen chicken with mouth-to-beak. There's a woman with a chicken named Cotton who swims with it, gives it daily baths, and gives it a diaper. There's moral discourse on killing chickens for food. There's a guy, my new hero, who can perfectly imitate various rooster noises. He's rather good at the mating dances, too.I am in love with this film.