Chicken Little
Chicken Little Gets Negatives
When I read the first negative review for Chicken
Little I thought it might have been just a fluke. But when two negative
reviews for the film pop up in the same day, we might be witnessing precedence.
The first review comes from Variety,
who gave Chicken Little a verbal bashing.
Disney's first inhouse all-CG animated feature, "Chicken Little," lives up to its name by serving up a fraction of what audiences are used to getting in this department from PixarPixar and DreamWorks -- little originality, little humor and little ingratiating characterization. Under-nourishing and highly derivative fast-food item probably will ring up less B.O.B.O. than most of the high-flying animated features of recent holiday seasons, although the Disney imprimatur and marketing muscle still will send it on a highly profitable journey through every segment of its commercial playoff.
Unprepossessing pic feels secondhand in all respects: It spins off a tiresomely familiar fairy tale, takes place in the sort of idealized small town that's long since come to feel shopworn, references pop culture touchstones as laboriously as did "Shark Tale," spotlights a father-son dynamic that blandly echoes that of "Finding Nemo," is upfrontupfront in poaching from "War of the Worlds" for its dramatic climax and comes in a distant second to "Jimmy Neutron" in the coolness of its outer space gizmos and creatures. In short, "Chicken Little" looks recycled inside and out.
Could the Disney animation possibly be as bad as
they say? Well, with a review that does a follow-up like the one posted
at AICN
below, it looks like Chicken Little may have some laughing... such
as Pixar and Dreamworks.
If only there had been some early reviews
on the net, I could have avoided wasting two hours of my time and that of
my kids. The movie is pretty abysmal compared to the recent efforts of Pixar
and Dreamworks. As I’m sure everyone knows, the story revolves around Chicken
Little and his ‘sky is falling’ story. The premise is in fact decent
– that the sky really is falling, as a prelude to an alien incursion on
Earth. The execution however is atrocious.
This is what I had mentioned in one of our previous
articles-- "As of right now, we still believe that Disney may have
actually nailed this latest CG animation; a first in some time."
Yeah, well, lets try to forget all that.
The sky begins to fall on November 4th.
For the trailers, movie stills, clips, and synopsis, go to the Chicken
Little Movie Page.
Stay tuned for updates.
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