Chicken Little (Disney) Starring Zach Braff, Joan Cusack and Patrick Stewart

2005 brought us some nasty kids movies to our screens. The Pacifier, Are We There Yet?, Madagascar, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Cheaper By the Dozen 2, Robots, Wallace & Grommit just to name a few. And it’s no surprise that late last year; audiences in the Northern Hemisphere were subjected to this piece of shit. Chicken Little is a whining piece or crap that begs for originality and laughs.

The movie starts off rather frantically, when Chicken Little (Zach Braff) turns the whole town into hysterics because the sky is falling. He is then grilled by the town mayor about “where in the park did the sky fall?”. CL can’t see it but begs the town to believe him. No one does, not even his dad. A year later, and he is still an embarrassment to his father, and he is picked on at school, laughed at by the whole town because of that whole event. Wishing he can get his dad to believe in him again, he goes on a quest to become the best baseball player. 6 months later and still without any match experience, he is able to win the game, in the most retarded way possible. That night he discovers another part of the sky has fallen? What does this mean?

Anyone who grew up watching "Dumbo," "Bambi" and "Snow White" will surely be chagrined by the animation. Little looks like a cut + paste job to me. You probably wouldn’t notice this if the plot was first-rate, the writing was clever and the characterisations were likable. Sadly, these things have been omitted for cheap gags about pop songs in the 70s.

Chicken Little’s plot has driven shit down our throats, many times; son feels unappreciated and misunderstood by Dad and so embarks on some kind of misadventure in order to prove himself and win his dad's love. However it seems Disney (and DreamWorks, for that matter) continue to insult our intelligence with reheated shambles.

I know I’m not the target audience for this movie, but when you put an alien invasion that is pretty similar intone with War of the Worlds, this isn’t for young kids either. Coming from Disney, with their track record, this is an embarrassment.

Bad Disney!


out of ten

Reviewed by Dino White

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