Chicken Little - 6.9/10
Okay, what was this movie? One minute it's a story of a kid trying to
fit in at school, then it's a story of a dysfunctional relationship with
his father, then there's aliens, and wtf is happening? I'm not saying
all these elements cannot all go together in a movie, but here it was
very clunky. In addition, the animation did not impress me at all. I've seen better stuff in weekly TV cartoons.
So what else was wrong with this movie? Well, aside from the annoying
characters (I thought I liked Chicken Little himself until about 3/4
through), it's a complete wash in terms of originality. It wasn't
completely phoned in likeThe Aristocats, but it was almost as bad. Judging by this and Home on the Range,
Disney seems to have completely sold out. Where's the magic? Where's
the creativity? Where's the assurance that audiences don't need to be
pandered to? I mean, Spice Girls songs? Really?
To be fair, there would a handful of jokes that were really funny.
Unfortunately most of them were either in the background or quick,
momentary things. I did laugh my ass off at the finale, but that was
mostly due to Adam West and the whole absurdity of it all, which I'm
sure is what they were going for so I have to at least give them points
for that. All in all though, I rate this as a failure of a movie,
especially by Disney standards.
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