If you can withstand the shame of wearing the dorky green glasses, the 3-D screenings are worth seeking out.
#Chicken little movie#
These shows cost a little more but look quite good - kind of like watching a movie version of a View-Master toy. "Chicken Little" is also showing in the new Digital 3-D technology at the Loews Metreon in San Francisco, the Century 20 Oakridge in San Jose, the Century 20 Daly City and the Regal Hacienda Crossings 20 in Dublin. and Gloria Gaynor songs making particularly appropriate appearances in the final act.įor any great-grandparents in the audience, Don Knotts shows up too, as the voice of a turkey who is two parts Barney Fife and one part Mr. Thankfully, the humor remains consistent as the plot meanders, with roughly the same two-good-jokes-for-every-groaner ratio that kept "Robots" and "Madagascar" from failure.Īlthough the two original songs featuring Joss Stone and Barenaked Ladies are excuses for a potty break, there's a running joke involving older music that will keep parents and grandparents from falling asleep - with R.E.M. "Chicken Little" shifts influences every 20 minutes or so, throwing in a "Bad News Bears" subplot before the "War of the Worlds" finale. From Chicken Little's disappointed father (shades of Hank Hill) to his oversize pig sidekick (shades of every character voiced by John Ratzenberger), there's nothing original here other than an alarming number of morbidly obese characters. from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, Chicken Little is by far the most memorable and enjoyable character in a film populated with been-there-done-thats. "There's the crazy little chicken.")ĭespite his physical similarities to Egghead Jr. After his warning that "the sky is falling" causes a minor disaster, he becomes a media pariah - complete with his own movie-of-the-week.
Zach Braff voices Chicken Little, an eager young bird in the barnyard-themed town of Oakey Oaks. Disney's first homegrown computer-made movie benefits from a little distance from the "Nemos" and "Shreks" of the world - the visuals are decent enough and the majority of the jokes hit, but it's still only about 65 percent as good as the worst Pixar film.
It's not by chance that "Chicken Little" comes out in the beginning of November, typically the time slot for animated movies that aren't good enough for a summer or holiday release. But as cluttered as the movie gets before the ending, it's funny throughout, with some 1970s and '80s music thrown in to keep adults happy. Yes, "Chicken Little" is a modernization of an old story, and that includes a sky that's falling in the form of alien invaders. He's virtually alone in warning his neighbors about an approaching evil, and becomes the type of outcast who spurs endless hours of talk on the farm-animal version of "Inside Edition." As protagonists go, Chicken Little starts out somewhere between
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