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Mood:
- HumorousFeel Good
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Plot:
- Young HeroesRescueSave the WorldFriendshipAlien EncounterHeroic MissionDangerHeroes more...
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Genres:
- AdventureAnimationComedyFamily
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Place:
- Small TownSpacecraft
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbuster
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Humor:
- Silly Humor
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Style:
- FairytaleVoice Over
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousFantastic
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Score:
- Pop
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Look:
- Computer Animated3D
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Chicken Little, 2005
English
USA
Profile of Chicken Little
The mood of Chicken Little is humorous and feel good. The plot centers around an alien encounter, saving the world, and social relations. It features silly humor. Chicken Little is a comedy, adventure, and animation movie. Stylistically, it is fairytale-like and includes a voice over. In approach, it is fantastical. Chicken Little takes place, at least partly, on a spacecraft and in a small town. Visually, it is 3D and is computer animated. The musical score is pop. Chicken Little is known for being a blockbuster and an award winner. It is especially suggested for kids and a family outing.
Summary of Chicken Little
Disney's first venture into the realm of CGI animation (without Pixar) tells the tale of all-animal town Oakey Oaks's most infamous resident, Chicken Little (voiced by Zach Braff), who causes town-wide panic when he claims the sky is falling. A year later he's still shunned by everyone, including his dad (Gary Marshall), a single rooster with an incredibly wide tie. Determined to end his losing streak, the bespectacled Little joins the baseball team, even though he can barely lift the bat. Luckily his three equally outcast friends have faith in him: a pig with a yen for '70s disco (Steve Zahn); a Harpo Marx-esque goldfish in a diving helmet; and Abby, a buck-toothed female duckling (Joan Cusak). According to her sources in magazines such as Modern Mallard, Abby is sure Chicken Little merely needs "closure" with dad over the sky incident. But when the sky really does start falling due to a full-on alien invasion, and only Chicken Little knows why, dad still doesn't want to believe him.
Kids are sure to understand Chick's frustration in this matter, and parents will dig the sly riffs on films like VERTIGO (1958), THE BLOB (1959), INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996), and WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953), as well as Disney's own back catalog. In place of the usual musical numbers, CHICKEN LITTLE includes montages set to Barenaked Ladies songs and reinterpreted pop favorites (the old Art Garfunkel gut-wrencher, "All I Know," is a standout), while celebrity voiceovers come from Harry Shearer, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Stewart, Adam West, and Don Knotts, with Amy Sedaris as the obnoxious "Foxy Loxy."
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 30 October 2005 |
| Runtime: | 81 min |
Cast and Crew
as Chicken Little
as Abby Mallard
as Mayor Turkey Lurkey
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Critics Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Michael Rechtshaffen
USA Today
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- by: Mike Clark
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- 08.October.2009
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- by: Kieran Seán
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- by: rose
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