Starring: VOICE: Zach Braff (Chicken Little), Joan Cusack (Ugly Duckling), Katie Finneran (Goosey Lucy), Don Knotts (Turkey Mayor), Gary Marshall (Father), Amy Sedaris (Foxy Loxy), Jeremy Shadad (Alien Boy), Steve Zahn (Runt), Harry Shearer, Patrick Stewart, Adam West, Fred Willard, Brad Abrell
Chicken Little mistakes a falling acorn for falling sky and starts a panic. Eventually people figure out that he's crying wolf. Suddenly, the sky is falling for real and no one will listen. Aliens attack and the funny little chicken who no one believes is left to try and save the world.
Can a little chicken save Disney? That’s the question flapping around in my mind after the surreptitious departure of Pixar from the unappreciative world of Walt. Disney has nixed their traditional, 2-D animation department and thrown all their eggs into 3-D animation, and by extension into Chicken Little’s basket. For the sake of the Walt’s legacy, this thing had better be good.
And you know what, I want it to be good. I miss the old, reliable, quality Disney. They used to be what Pixar is now. But Chicken Little feels like a long shot to recapture it. To be sure, the trailers are funny. In fact, the more I see of it, the more the movie grows on me. But this is clearly no Beauty and the Beast. The story of Chicken Little just isn’t something that’s going to translate into one of those sweeping, instantly classic stories that Disney is so good at. Instead, if they’re lucky they’ll end up with something more on the level of Emperor’s New Groove. It’s not The Lion King, but even that would be a big step up for Disney’s flagging animation division.
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