Can 'Chicken Little' Reanimate Disney?
 

Just caught this on NPR - Heh, Jim Hill got some air time. Go here to listen

Considering that Chris posed this question over a week ago, and I am the first one to respond to this topic, I get the feeling that indifference to CHICKEN LITTLE is pretty complete. The reviews are almost unanimously bad, but tomorrow will show us how the public voted at the box office. Somehow, I don't think this is going to be our next LION KING.

I was entertained enough while watching it, but it is a blah movie overall.

It's about chickens for god’s sake. I want chicken in a salad not a movie. In my movies give me little blue aliens, sharks, bugs and even toys but not poultry.

So then, I can assume you thought that chicken run was horrible.....

Actaully I never saw it. It had chickens. Guess I'm just poultryphobic.

I think they should kiss and hold Pixar tight.
:)

I agree, GC. I really doubt we'll be seeing the movie- maybe on dvd as a rental, but I'm not interested in paying a load of money to see it.

We're going to see it either next weekend or the weekend after at the El Cap. Got a group rate so it's not a big expenditure. I'm staying away from the reviews but I think I will probably be a bit bored. Who knows.

We took the kids Friday. I was less than enthralled. I liked it better than Madagascar, and did find a few laughs, but overall, I was pretty bored.

11 year old was bored. The 6 and 4 year old liked it, but some stuff scared my 4 year old.

I have no real desire to see it. Nickolas hasn't mentioned wanting to see it. David wants to see Zathura. I am waiting for HP GoF. Nickolas hasn't mentioned wanting to see any of the movies that are out now...weird...

I do know that I find all of the pics of the Chicken Head watching over the Esplanade very disturbing.

I'm all hyped for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe...

That movie looks good but just to be sure, there are err no chickens staring in it right?

No, they all have their eyes closed.

I'm a little concerned about Narnia since it is from Walden Media and while they've made decent family movies they are a little too candy-coated for my preferences. I have hopes though.

What about Foghorn Leghorn? Can you watch those cartoons?

Actually, I didn't respond to this topic because I have no desire to read anything Jim Hill writes, so commenting on a piece I haven't read seemed kinda ridiculous.

But on the subject of "Chicken Little", we saw it Friday night at the El Capitan. Overall, I liked it, though there were spots I didn't like. We went to the 9:45 show, which was sold out, as were the two or three shows before it. I don't believe the midnight show was sold out.

And for those avoiding reviews, I'll put mine in spoiler tags.

What ya got against Canadiens, eh? Take off!;)

I think Moonliner is afraid of chickens.

What a chicken! Buk buk buk buk! Buk-awwwwk!!!



;)

Chicken? Nobody calls me chicken! Why did the chicken cross the road? Because it saw me coming! Fried, scrambled, baked or in a pot-pie I'm every chickens worst nightmare. They call me the Chickenator. Go ahead bring it on sister, eggs, chicks, hens roosters? I got a recipe for um all! (What you never herd of chick fillet?)

Good thing you never saw 'Chicken Run'- the ending would have just upset you.

Remember McFly, reacting when people call you chicken can only lead to trouble...

Well, I saw Chicken Little at the El Cap yesterday in 3-D, and I have to say I was pleasently surprised. It wasn't a spectacular film, but I was amused and entertained. I particularly liked the soundtrack's use of Disco hits.

omg- thats totally what I loved about it!
The story was so so... but I was not aware I knew all those lyrics!

I had fun, and my son loved it. Thats more than I generally ask for in a movie

This was marginally better than I was expecting, with a few good laughs, and great, not-in-your-face use of 3-D. The best gags were visual, often taking place in the periphery of the main "action." Unfortunately, our main characters spent a godawful lot of time yapping and yapping about "closure." We got the same "talk to your Dad" lecture at least three times.

I thought the baseball game was a very good sequence, funny and suspenseful, and, alas, it brought the story to a satisfying close at the halfway point. Dad and son are reconciled and dad sees that he should have had faith in his tiny nerdy kid. Then, the UFOs arrive, and Dad reverts right back to his previous attitude. Several noisy scenes later, father and son have an endless discussion in an empty movie theater. Talkity talkity talk. Aaargh! I hated this aspect of the movie.

As to the use of disco and other well-worn pop motifs, I wasn't a fan. I didn't like disco in the seventies, and it's impossible to get me to respond warmly to it three decades later. And for criminy's sake, could we please have a looong moritorium on REM's "End of the World As We Know It?"

This must be the first use of actual product placement in a Disney theatrical animated feature - Jolly Time Popcorn and Tic Tacs both got branded and prominent onscreen positioning. I know the Di$ney company has sold its soul, but do they have to flaunt it? Yeesh.

As much as I sound grouchy about Chicken Little, I didn't hate it. And, in spite of my earlier prophecies of box office doom, it has reached 99 mil over this last weekend. So, more power to it. I just hope that the folks at the "new" Disney don't take this as a cue to set the bar at mediocre for their next few features.

My five year old thought the film was (in his exact words..) "That movie was awesome!" That is good enough for me and well I really can't hate Chicken Little because he was so cute and well I LOVE Zach Braff. When Chicken Little sang "We are the Champions" I could picture Zach Braff singing and it reminded me again that I would totally sleep with him. Is that wrong to think of that during a kids' film???????? I am so bad......

Hey, that's no more wrong than the lust I used to harbor for Gadget in Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers. (I've posted my shameful confession about that elsewhere, I'm pretty sure.)

so long as you dont think it out loud in the theater, I think you'll be ok.