Chicken Little (2005)

hyped garbage

How sad is this?

Fantastic!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Modern Disney without Pixar is like peanut butter without chocolate -- it's good, but it has the potential to be so much better. Chicken Little isn't bad, it just isn't a classic. It's not very memorable. One of my kids enjoyed it, the other was pretty bored. So overall, I'd say this movie is average.

I think that the title explains a lot about what I mean to say. This film is a total rubbish: not only because it tries to use Computer Generated Imagery to compete with Pixar's masterpiece The Incredibles (released a year before), but because it has also a rubbish story. I mean: Walt Disney himself tried to adapt Chicken Little in 1940s and he failed pretty badly. So, why Eisner decided to make a full-length movie about this story is a mystery: the book from which this piece of junk has been adapted is very poor and very childish, unsuitable for Disney. But then again, Disney came from a period of turmoil and wanted to try something new (Atlantis and Treasure Planet aren't very Disney-sh?, so I may be able to understand why they decided to give credit to this book. What I refuse to understand is the fact that script is almost inconsistent: I mean, where is the plot, if there is one? Even the best topic in the world (a father-son relationship and its troubles) has been thrown in the bin; this is a film without ideas, without soul, without... Just without: in my honest opinion, Disney could have lived happily ever after without this piece of junk. Honestly I think this is the worst film Disney has ever made: yeah, this is even worse than The Black Cauldron: that film, at least, had a shred of a story, had a "plot". What does this movie say? What message delivers it? "Anybody can be mocked to Death by everyone, but when the time comes they will have Revenge?" Or maybe: "it is not important if you are a bully like Foxy Loxy: in the end you will eventually be transformed in an harmless person"? Or perhaps: "you may be the worst parent in the world, but when time comes your son will inexplicably understand and love you?" What's the point????

This might be a controversial opinion, but I loathe this movie in every way. The CG is badly colored, the characters are horrible, spiteful, and VERY unlikable. Never in a Disney movie have I ever felt such a mean-spirited vibe.This is BY A MILE the absolute worst movie from Disney. The moral is horrible, it teaches kids that you need to assault the unpopular, throw things at them, and neglect them to be cool.Chicken Little's father is a awfully made character, he neglects his child and publicly embarrasses him. You know what? I hate EVERYTHING about this movie, from the characters, to the message, to the lazy animation. Please Disney, stick to movies with good morals and likable characters to avoid piles of garbage like this.

Disney has come up with very few magical and inspiring animated films in the 2000s, and this one is no exception. Yet another film about talking animals, this story is based on the classic Chicken Little story, but this time, the sky looks like it's actually falling and the little chicken finds himself face-to-face with alien invaders. What resulted is a rushed mess of melodrama, potty humor, annoying characters and a cliché story with no originality, no subplots and no suspense. It's just a little story about Chicken Little trying to impress his father and friends after causing a ruckus about the first sky-falling incident by scoring big at the baseball game. But, when real alien space invaders arrived, it resulted in something like a rip-off from War of the Worlds.Amidst in the plot is this nervous and highly melodramatic pig named Runt and this fish-out-of-water character who tried to be cool, making this movie that much more annoying to watch. And, the soundtrack was one of the most unoriginal I have ever heard, for numerous scenes have rock/pop songs (like Bee Gee's Stayin' Alive, Gloria Raynor's I Will Survive, and Spice Girls' Wannabe) inserted in rather than original pieces of composed music and songs.The computer animation wasn't bad, though, but I would have preferred that CGI be left to Pixar and hand-drawn animation be left to Disney classics. The character of Chicken Little is somewhat endearing and adorable, but unfortunately, that is overshadowed by the rushed & unoriginal plot, unoriginal music, melodrama and insipid characters. The filmmakers tried too hard to make this movie be hip, modern and bubble-gum like a typical Hollywood teenage flick. They completely disregarded that a Disney movie is supposed to have elements like magic, memorable and inspirational characters, a wonderful music score, songs we would remember or love to sing to, a captivating story, adventure and just good old fun. It's hard to imagine that Disney went from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to this! Not recommended.Grade D---