Chicken Park (1994) User Reviews

Bloody awful, but....

[bmcbosma · 3/10 · 15 February 2001]

Think of 'Chicken Park' and 'Kramer vs Kramer'. I would rather watch Chicken Park again, at least it didn't pretend to be anything more than a quick, cheap rip-off. And there were some mildly amusing parts, and a fairly attractive chick (human variety) who bared her breasts. El cheapo and too dependant on tiresome sexual referencing trying unsuccessfully to be funny, but tolerable because it knew it was bad.

Do not watch this movie if you value your existence!

[mrdjx · 1/10 · 9 January 2012]

Before I begin, let me tell you that I like to watch so-bad-good-movies. I've sat through Battlefield Earth, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Room and even got a few kicks out of watching scenes from Manos: Hands of Fate. The aforementioned movies are famous for being dubbed, "Worst movie ever." Chicken Park is worse than all of these films. In fact should never be put on a worst of list, unless the authors responsible put a disclaimer reading "Do not watch this movie if you value your existence!"

Chicken Park is so bad that after 40 minutes, it was physically impossible for me to sit through it without vomiting. This is a spoof film that is worse then any of the spoof movies made by Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg. My brother unwittingly stumbled across this in a DVD rental store and hired it. Due to psychologically repressed memories, I have difficulty recalling all the details of my forty minutes in the closest circles of hell with this...this ungodly mess. I seem to recall a scene featuring a giant chicken raping a man. I don't know if that was actually in the film, or if it became a figment of my imagination as a consequence for attempting to watch it.

Luckily the film is only available in Australia. But if you do find a copy, it is your duty to take it and take whatever measures are required to destroy it, so we can live knowing that there will be a future when no one can see Chicken Park.

Dear GOD

[plantostickthat · 31 March 2002]

This movie isn't bad. It's beyond bad. It is indescribable.

Living in Australia, which seems to be about the only place a copy of this is available, i borrowed a copy as a laugh. What did i think???

I can't really say, because it was impossible to watch.

I Tried 6 times (yes, really 6) to watch the movie from start to finish. The furthest i got was about 20 minutes with it on in the background, and that was still too much. I managed to watch it all in segments of about 5 minutes at a time (i had to keep myself sane) but that was still WAY too much of this crap.

If you read any of my other reviews, you will see that i watch bad movies for fun, and i have an extremely tough stomach for them. I can sit through almost anything. This movie was the first movie which ever defeated me, and the only other two were 'santa with muscles' starring hulk hogan, and an unofficial baywatch movie made in somebody's backyard (its not even on the imdb). But i managed about 40 minutes of them. This movie has NOTHING going for it at all.

I challenge you to sit through it.

You can't say "Bad!" without having watched Chicken Park

[fabbricatore_marco · 1/10 · 18 April 2019]

Easily a candidate for worst parody movie ever produced, a movie in which everything is wrong. Jerry Cala, an otherwise talented comedian (watch him in the movies he shot for Ferreri, Risi and Polidoro), debuts as a screenwriter and director, and you can see he is an amateur in both jobs from a mile away. Every single joke falls flat, every actor (including Cala himself) is wrongly cast, every shot looks pedestrian. Just terrible!

a SHOCKER!

[rooboy84 · 1/10 · 28 April 2002]

I first saw Chicken Park a few years back, and it was crap. I watched it for about 20 minutes and was disgusted. As far as I can remember, there was a giant chicken chasing people, as you can see it goes to show how stupid it was that I can't hardly remember. Absolutley disgusting scenes in it and really is not funny in any way possible. Like someone said earlier, they have tried to do it like the masterpiece Jurassic Park(because they have put a chicken on the front instead of a dinosaur)But Jurassic Park shouldn't be involved with this slag.

What was Jerry Calà thinking? What a fool!

When it comes down to it, this movie shouldn't be viewed by anyone. What a piece of junk.

If you can avoid it, for the love of god, do.

[falster · 1/10 · 19 September 2000]

I made the horrible mistake of hiring this movie to entertain my 12 year old cousins while I babysat them. Unfortunately, it was one of the stupidist things i've done, as this movie is most probably the worst thing I have ever seen, with horrible jokes about gay chickens and the Addams family. The only reason I actually watched most of it was because my cousins refused to let me turn it off because it had the occasional topless girl in it. Please, avoid at all cost.

AAAAAAARRRRRRHHHH!!!!!!!

[buffylover1985 · 1/10 · 29 June 2003]

The worst movie ever made, BAR NONE. It even makes 2001 A Space Travesty look good. Words cant describe how bad this movie is! I have considered buying it from the video store i work in, just so i can do a sacrificial burning of it!!!!!!!

A script so awful, you wish they'd start doing improv

[b-a-h TNT-6 · 1/10 · 12 September 2002]

A moron goes to an island to find a chicken he lost, but finds himself in a park where some insane scientist grows dangerous giant "prehistoric" (?) chickens; the chickens seem to have strange sexual behavior. Will the mad scientist and his freak-show crew help the man in his endeavor?

WHO CARES!

This "thing" is painful to sit through. Bad spoof comedies are not something that come out once in a lifetime, but whoever thought this one up should be sentenced to watch it repeatedly, Clockwork Orange-style, as a punishment. An Indian coming out of a giant egg (?) saying "is this Dances with Wolves hoo-hoo-hoo" (or something to that effect), then running away? A girl coming out of nowhere in the middle of the jungle and seducing a postal worker? A giant gay chicken trying to sexually molest the protagonist? These are the kind of jokes shown through the movie, and I'm pretty confident that they would make even one on nitrous oxide stop laughing. What's disconcerting is the fact that it's impossible to understand for whom exactly the film was made: the terrible, terrible juvenile (not to mention moronic) humor seems to be made for not-so-bright young kids, but then the tasteless sexual references and the gratuitous nudity exclude that possibility.

The acting is ridiculously bad. Jerry Calà, the protagonist, gives one of the worst acting performances I've ever seen: if something happens, whatever that is, he tries (unsuccessfully) to look surprised. Demetra Hampton and the rest of the cast are equal, or worse. The special effects are sub-video game level, the music and the cinematography are all abysmal.

Do not, under any circumstances, watch this movie. You'll be sorry if you do.

1/10

WORST MOVIE EVER I RATE IT 5 STARTEs

[Darrenfishmann · 5/10 · 23 November 2020]

THIS IS THE THIRD ATTEMPT AT REVIEWING THIS FILM. I HAVE WRITTEJ TWO OTHER WALLS OF TEXT AND DELETED THEM BECAUSE I HONESTLY CAN'T COMPREHEND OR UNDERSTAND THIS MOVIE. DON'T HET ME WRONG IT IS BY NO MEANS AN INTELLIGENT FILM, IT IS LIKE A COSMIC HORROR ENTITY, LOOMING IN THE DARKNEES, UNWATCHABLE AND UNABLE TO BE UNDERSTOOD

I GIVE IT 5 STARS BRCAUSEIN SPITE OF IT BEINT THE WORST THING I HQVE EVER SEEN I CANNOT DENY I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT FREQUENTLY FOR THE LAST TWO DECADES.

IT IS LIKE MY CREDIT CARD. I DON'T WANT IT BUT BY GOD IT IS ALWAYS THERE IN THE BACK OF MY CUTLERY DRAWER WAITING FOR ME TO RETURN FIR ANOTHER BULK ORDER OF GRAHAM CRACKERS.

WELL DONE JERRY CALA YOU HAVE GIVEJ ME AN ENRUISM

Stupid Funny

[dbborroughs · 8/10 · 17 February 2004]

A low low low brow spoof of everything with a Jurassic Park setting with chickens instead of dinosaurs, this is a movie to watch with a bunch of friends and loved ones who don't mind laughing at jokes so bad under normal circumstances you kill the person who told them to you ( Beer would also help). The key to enjoying the film is to look at the title and the premise and realize that it doesn't get any better than that. If the title and premise don't make you snicker than avoid the movie, it wasn't meant for you, if you do snicker or smile as you say "oh come on" then you at least understand the humor and you may find it funny in a so bad its good sort of way. Personally I like the film and its rude, crude, "we have no morals or scruples" way of dishing out laughs.

It's not bad at all

[GIZMO35_PF · 7/10 · 21 March 2005]

I watched this a couple of days ago and it's not bad as people might say it is. I know the special effects aren't great but for a very low budget you'd expect that kind of thing to happen. The comedy was stupid but hilarious and the acting wasn't bad to my standards. This is a good film if you're into sexual references and bad special effects. I could watch this over and over again if i had the time. Come on, give this film a chance to survive and watch it while shutting off you logical side of your brain and get a few good laughs out of this old movie even though it spoofs a few popular movies.

Rated M15+ for Sexual References and Violence

Awful, awful.

[bubs1 · 1/10 · 12 August 2004]

This movie was a TOTAL DISGRACE. How the hell 45 people can give this 10/10 on IMDB is completely beyond me. Without a doubt, one of the worst movies EVER.

There is a recommendation at the bottom of the page.

It should read something like this.

RECOMMENDATIONS. If you liked this movie, we recommend

PSYCHIATRIC HELP.

What the... ?

[Crap_Connoisseur · 7 November 2005]

This should be the kind of movie I love: zero budget, appalling acting and ridiculous special effects. However, ridiculously unfunny spoofs and lame movie in-jokes manage to completely destroy just about every guilty pleasure this film has to offer.

Not that it is all horrific. Fans of Z-grade cinema will enjoy the scenes set in Chicken Park. The giant chicken effects are hilarious and Bruce, the cross-dressing, giant gay chicken is truly a marvel of our times. Likewise, the randy chicken that rips off Sigourney's top, exposing her breasts. Now, that's just classy film-making!

It's a shame that these moments of poultry flavoured hilarity only account for approximately 10 minutes of the film. The remainder of the movie can only be described as a cinematic car wreck. It's not only poorly made but also excruciatingly boring. I was also genuinely upset to see an actress of the calibre of Rossy De Palma in a film this dire. How has the one time muse of Pedro Almodovar found herself playing a character called Necrophilia, who dresses like Morticia Adams and gets pleasured by "Thing" while watching a video tape of someone undergoing surgery? Someone please rescue this diva from Z-grade movie hell!

In conclusion, this film is nothing but a putrid heap of fresh chicken poo. Fans of trash are advised to simply fast forward to the giant chickens and leave the rest of the film for those with sadomasochistic tendencies.

Worse than awful

[Capt. · 1/10 · 2 November 1998]

Literally the worst made movie I have seen all year. A suppossed spoof this movie dies with every 'joke'. It attempts to rip off several movies, most disconcertingly the Addams Family and the lack of vague skill or similarity to those movies makes a poor and unfunny movie into a perverted and misguided movie. There is no bigger waste of money and time in my local store, and *I've* seen every bad movie from 'plan 9' to - well now I have to change my saying - Chicken Park

The worst movie I've ever attempted to watch

[vsargo · 1/10 · 10 September 1999]

This movie is pitiful. I consider myself as a person who can put up with almost all genres and types of movies but this movie gave me a serious headache after the first ten minutes viewing. With no link to the actual movie Jurassic Park and packed with some of the most pathetic jokes I've ever seen in a movie. I mean you'll get better laughs from a Revenge of the Nerds movie than watching this garbage. I could continue but I think you get the picture.

I endured this video for 12 minutes

[adavid-6 · 1/10 · 27 May 2005]

The giant chicken we could handle. I have no problem with cheep FX (pun intended). I have no problem with Italian 'B' movies. What destroyed it was the lack of comedic writing. The "actors" must have made the dialogue up as they went along. It was not funny. It was degrading, vicious language. I will never get those 12 terrible minutes of my life back. I am a fan of parody spoofs and was looking forward to this movie as it had such wonderful material to lampoon in "Jurassic Park". All that was recognisable was the big gate. The producers probably blew the whole budget on that gate! Plan 9 is a masterpiece compared to this one.

The worst movie I've ever seen. Avoid at all costs.

[ronny-12 · 1/10 · 27 August 1999]

"Chicken Park" has an intriguing idea behind it (basically Jurassic Park, with giant chickens), but it just doesn't work. The acting is terrible, the special effects are woeful, the plot is worse. This is the worst movie I have ever seen.

There are bad movies that are enjoyable due to their schlock factor, and there are bad movies that are just bad. Chicken Park is one of the latter. It's the sort of movie that if you were flicking channels at 3AM, you would be better off with infomercials.

Avoid at all costs.

Wonderful

[cto0498 · 10/10 · 20 November 2002]

Probably not italian viewers can be mistaken some jokes that seem awful or without a sense. This is due to relations in the jokes to advertisements (Ferrero Rocher) or TV movies that appear only to italian people. The connection with Jurassic Park is the only visible to the whole world. The a great part of the world gave so many prizes to Jurassic Park. It is obvious that this world doesn't like the parody of Jurassic Park. Chicken Park is wonderful, the first idea and the jokes and most of the characters. You cannot pretend that a movie created with a bunch of dollars has the same special effects that movies in which the enormous budget is an great advertisement. Thanks to Jerry Calà.

This is not the worst film an Italian director has never done

[sc75 · 18 February 2002]

There are no words to justify a "film" like this. I'm Italian and I can say that in my Country Jerry Calà has always been famous for a particular kind on films, comic or surrealistic comedy, but he was always an actor and never director. Chicken Park is a shame for me like Italian. I hope Italian cinema continued to use Jerry as a comic (he is good, really!) and not like an artist. In any case, I can say that we have a director that are not so better than Jerry... his name is Ezio Greggio and his parody "Silence of the Jams" is probably worst that Chicken Park...See to believe...

masterpiece

[d628244 · 9/10 · 19 December 2013]

A cinema masterpiece!

The special effects reminds me the best Hollywoodian films, I rarely saw special effects so wonderful, maybe only in Avatar. The actors are simply amazing, I wonder why nobody won an Oscar for this movie. The locations are simply breathtaking.

My vote is "only" 9 / 10 because of the plot: really complex and tangled, it required the film to be watched at least twice in order to capture each thinness.

I would really like to see a sequel, in my view the story is so interesting that there is room for at least 2 sequel and maybe 1 prequel.

I don't hesitate in describing this movie as a truly masterpiece!

Eccentric and weird but still terrible

[Laitue_Gonflable · 25 November 2002]

You can never be sure what to make of this movie. Yes, it is terrible, but it is terrible in a non-sensical, not-to-be-taken-too-seriously kind of way. The basic idea is a thin satire of Jurassic Park, done with chickens instead of dinosaurs, and the lack of plot seems to help it in whatever it was trying to do. There is a sort of oddball humour value to the whole experience, although I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is funny only because it is so bad; some of the jokes are so incomprehensible that the only thing one can do is laugh, if only then with a fierce grimace overcoming your face. In terms of entertainment, I'd say about a four out of ten, in terms of quality in acting, scripting, directing, a zero would not quite be small enough across the board.

Wasting money is something a must

[vorce · 30 October 2002]

I am Italian and remember having watched this "movie" on TV a year or two after its supposed release. I say "supposed", because - though it was filmed in 35mm - this movie never went into cinemas (if you have seen it, you can imagine why...) It is simply unwatchable, far beyond any reasonable z-movie style. Jerry Calà is a comic actor, who in his beginnings played in a rather experimental comic group (I gatti di vicolo Miracoli). After that, he collected a series of blockbusters repeating more and more his down-to-earth jokes (mainly based on puns associated with advertisement and idioms), together with other comic actors and the current Italian "playmates". With this film I think he tried to re-create such a mixture, but failed in improvising himself as a director...

Don't waste time: do not watch this movie.

I Thought That This Was A Horrible Joke.

[ganstertrippin · 22 January 2003]

Back In The Day, before i had the internet, we would often have conversations about what the worst film of all time was. One of the kids said that he had seen a send-up of Jurassic Park named Chicken Park. This kid was a notoriously bad liar so we just ignored him. As if a film like this would be made. I mean honestly.

Fast Forward to last week. After crusing around this site for a while, I remembered the Chicken Park story. So I typed it in and low and behold here it is. With all the information about it too. I decided to hunt this film down and give it a watch. The video rental stores never heard of it, for good reason. Then in a bargin bin box at Kmart, there it was for 2 bucks.

So why do i feel ripped off? ARGH! This film is the pit of all that is wrong with the nature of human beings. Why take a perfectly good film and decide instead of really cool dinosaurs , we replace them with god damn chickens?

And the "In" jokes are pitiful. Dr. Eggs? COME ON!!!!

This film is so bad that it makes Glitter look like The Godfather. Yuck, please don't watch this film. Let it remain a horrible joke to you. I think I'll go throw up.

Sometimes I still wake up screaming...

[ceredwyn · 6 February 2000]

Possibly the worst movie I have ever seen, Chicken Park is not improved by its vague attempts to be funny. It is maybe - just maybe - worth watching out of a sense of sheer horror that someone would make a travesty like this. From a deranged plotline involving the main character's fighting rooster to a somehow even more impossible senario with giant prehistoric chickens running down the characters and devouring them, this film can only be described as awful. If you have a burning desire to see a movie where a man is sexually molested by a giant homosexual rooster then Chicken Park is for you. The excrutiating awfulness of it aside, the chicken puppets aren't actually too bad. I can't remember why I hired it, but may I be protected from such a self destructive urge in the future.