Saturday, September 7, 2013

Shanghaied Chicken (The Animated Movie)

Yes, it’s the new animated high seas action adventure/gritty urban crime/revenge movie for kids: Shanghaied Chicken! It’s about an innocent chicken from San Francisco who is kidnapped by a vicious gang of geese and forced into servitude on a freighter crossing the Pacific Ocean, instigates a mutiny, takes control of the ship, frees all the other Shanghaied animals, and returns to San Francisco to punish the criminal gaggle of geese for their fowl deeds! And they conquer and punish the guilty, after which they end up rounded up by animal control, and slaughtered and cooked as chop suey at a local Chinese restaurant! Yes, it’s Shanghaied Chicken, coming soon to a theater near you! (Ad slogan for the movie: "Don’t run afoul of Shanghaied Chicken, or your goose will be cooked!")

And then, after the exciting Shanghaied Chicken feature, comes the sequel: Shanghaied Chicken 2: Chicks Out for Vengeance! This sequel would show the chicks of the original Shanghaied Chicken character hatching from their eggs and seeking vengeance against animal control and the Chinese restaurant for abducting, slaughtering, cooking and serving their mother. And so they kill, prepare and cook all the guilty parties in a chop suey and serve it to unsuspecting restaurant patrons. It's a scathing indictment of meat-eating restaurant-goers and the food industry, serving to turn all kids into vegans (until the next movie about sentient foodstuffs: Vegetable Vengeance, the animated kids movie about vegetables out for revenge in a violent vendetta against vegans and vegetarians).

(Sorry, I was eating Shanghai Beef today, and after seeing the animated Friskies Grillers Ad with the cartoon beef and the cartoon chicken, it made me think of this idea.)