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"[In Chicken Run, the] best voicing, however, comes from Julia
Sawalha as Ginger, the smart and determined heroine. Imbuing her
character with the proper, but subtle nuances needed to make the
character work, Sawalha gives the best vocal performance by an
actress in quite some time in such an animated effort."
--Screen It!
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"Ginger is the heart of the film. Julia makes her both endearing and
plucky. You can't help but be swept up in quest to be free."
--Crazy for Cinema
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"[The] plucky heroine, Ginger, voiced marvelously by BBC veteran
Julia Sawalha, has all the slight eyebrow manipulations to show
surprise, anger, adoration, and cleverness...Maybe I've been hanging
around humans too long, but I found Ginger to be one of the best role
models around for both children and adults, no matter if they're
American or British."
--Darren Tayama, Epinions.com
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"Credit much of the film's intelligent comedy to two able veterans of
Absolutely Fabulous, Julia Sawalha and Jane Horrocks. As Ginger,
Sawalha never lets her mother hen's heroic aspirations get in the way
of a genuinely funny moment, while Ms. Horrocks exhibits some of the
best comic timing since Lucille Ball."
--Gabriel Shanks, Epinions.com
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"Every single voice is executed perfectly. I particularly liked the
fact that the strongest character was female and Julia Sawalha pulls
off a Ginger who deserves respect and admiration."
--Ram Samudrala, Movie Ram-blings
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"Gibson deftly plays off his cocky screen image, Richardson is
wonderfully evil as Mrs. Tweedy, and Jane Horrocks is the voice of
complacency and resignation as the overweight Babs. But the film
really belongs to Sawalha."
--Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
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"Julia Sawalha gives Ginger a brave, smart, you-go-hen! attitude."
--Steven Rosen, Denver Post
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"It's no wonder that Sawalha and Horrocks take to their outrageous
tasks like ducks to water or chickens to feed: They're both graduates
of the cutting-edge TV comedy `Absolutely Fabulous.' Indeed,
in "Chicken Run," Sawalha's stirring stalwartness and Horrocks'
infectious ditziness extend those earlier characterizations."
--Michael Sragow, Salon.com
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"Mel Gibson brings his expected energy and an antic, boisterous humor
to the cocky Rocky, but the heart of the film is Julia Sawalha's
Ginger, a self-sufficient, sometimes officious gal who could probably
escape by herself but whose deep concern for her fellow hens compels
her to find a way to get everyone out."
--Variety
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