Chicken Little (2005)

It is a performances centric movie

Boring

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Awful animation , Awful story , Awful comedy , Awful direction and Awful movie

Oh, gosh, do I hate this movie! This is, without a doubt, Disney's absolute worst movie ever! Let's see, how should I put it? Oh, yeah! It's awful! Incredibly awful! This is probably the most lazy, cruel, ugly, unfunny film I have ever seen! To start with, the film tries way too hard to be funny. It never worked! I didn't laugh once! Well, actually, I take that back. There was one joke at the beginning, where they were spoofing all the different ways Disney opens their movies, that was pretty funny. But, aside from that, nothing! I didn't even crack a smile. The animation is awful, and it is ugly! I know that this was one of Disney's first attempts at a CGI movie without Pixar, but, it still looks ugly! Also, the film was so poorly cast! Chicken little himself looks like he's about 8 or 10 years old, but, he sounds like if Woody Allen got kicked in the basement! And, the ugly duckling sounds like she's a 30 year old woman! That's just not right! Also, the side characters are just too mean! They're just so harsh on the main character, and, their motto is basically "shun, attack, and abuse the unpopular and praise the popular. That is a horrible lesson to be giving kids! Also, the father is really unlikable, as he is never supportive of his son or anyone but himself! I can't believe this! This was the studio that made The Lion King, my all-time favorite movie, how could they make such an abomination as this!? I just- I- je-Er IT'S SO TERRIBLE!!

Having earlier embarrassed himself by erroneously claiming that the sky is falling, a young chicken finds himself at odds with what to do upon discovering a planned alien attack in this undeniably imaginative if underwhelming take on the classic story. While the aliens and much of their gadgetry seems lifted from 'War of the Worlds', there is a lot of interest to this part of the film with cloaking devices, deadly weapons and one surefire intriguing spacecraft. Half the film elapses though before the title character discovers the aliens and the first half is frankly a mess. There are at least three or four loud songs and montages to pad out the running time and Chicken Little's three best friends are hard characters to warm to. One is fat, the other is ugly and the third speaks gibberish, and the film goes out of its way to make jokes at the expense of each character's signature condition (including short stature with Chicken Little himself). The film does have some heart though with a strained relationship between Chicken Little and his father that is tested and tried throughout the course of the film. In fact, had the film concentrated more on the title character's desire to make his father proud and less on crude jokes (particularly regarding weight and ugliness), the first half of the movie might have had considerable value. As it is, 'Chicken Little' at least ends on a high note with a more impressive second half, including some great animated special effects and a deliciously exaggerated film within the film at the very end, but it does feel somewhat like too little too late.

I'll tell what this is. It's worse than Home on the Range. It's worse than Dinosaur. It's worse than The Black Cauldron. All of those films have at least something good in them. Home on the Range has nice animation and a good pink elephants scene. Dinosaur has good animation moments as well, and a story that's merely bland instead of awful. The Black Cauldron is baffling, but kind of entertaining in a cult movie kind of way. But this one is simply bad.It adapts the tale of, well, Chicken Little. A small chicken child who hollers for all the world to hear that the sky is falling and that they should all run for their lives. When in reality it was just an acorn falling from an oak tree. The moral changes from version to version, but it's usually that you shouldn't jump to conclusions and not believe everything you're told. There's usually a king they're trying to warn about the sky and an antagonistic fox who tries to eat the chickens, all that good stuff. The movie practically writes itself.But no, this time Disney decided to be... *shudders* ... hip. They have a town, full of anthropomorphic animals, where the original folk tale is covered in the first minute or so. The rest of the film is merely a cookie cutter attempt to do an underdog sports film with the moral that everything will be alright in your life as long as you try hard enough and become popular. And that will solve all your problems, no matter what they are. From an absent father to school bullies to alien invasions. There's no problem being popular won't solve.I'm not the only one seeing the problem here, right? Plus, the film is ugly. This is Disney's first fully computer animated film, and it looks like it. CGI doesn't age well. Any children's morning cartoon nowadays is far superior to this one in terms of animation quality. The textures look fake, the character designs are ugly, they don't move well and it all looks outdated.Chicken Little is not insultingly bad. If you wanted, you can show it to your kids and they won't mind. Even the "popularity above all" message is given enough depth and cross-examined enough that it won't give them any wrong ideas. But it's not Disney. It has none of the charm or spirit the studio is known for. It's a failed attempt to adapt to a new age and it's sad to behold. See it only if you want to say you've seen them all. But please, your kids deserve better.