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Mike Reyes

Chicken Run 2 Poked Fun At Star Wars With An Eggcellent Tweet, And I Can't Get Over It

A shocked Ginger in Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget and a solemn Oscar Isaac in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, pictured side by side.

With everything new on Netflix that’s hit through the final days of the 2023 movie release schedule, the warm reaction to Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has been quite exciting. A project that arrived 23 years after its predecessor, it’s now time to kick back and enjoy this new caper that has Ginger, Rocky, and the rest of the gang back in action. So what better way to continue hyping the recent film than with an eggcellent Star Wars reference, poking fun at an infamous The Rise of Skywalker plot point that’s mirrored in this very movie?

It’s no secret that legacy baddie Mrs. Tweedy (Miranda Richardson) has returned, as even the first Chicken Run 2 trailer pointed out that very fact. But apparently that revelation was news to enough fans that Netflix used it as an excuse to make the following joke on its social media channels: 

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