After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 15 nominations
Zach Braff
- Chicken Little
- (voice)
Joan Cusack
- Abby Mallard
- (voice)
Garry Marshall
- Buck Cluck
- (voice)
Amy Sedaris
- Foxy Loxy
- (voice)
Steve Zahn
- Runt of the Litter
- (voice)
Harry Shearer
- Dog Announcer
- (voice)
Patrick Warburton
- Alien Cop
- (voice)
Mark Walton
- Goosey Loosey
- (voice)
Mark Dindal
- Morkubine Porcupine
- (voice)
- …
Dan Molina
- Fish Out of Water
- (voice)
Sean Elmore
- Kirby - Alien Kid
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe second fully computer generated theatrical movie produced in-house by Disney, rather than being hand-drawn, the first one being Dinosaur (2000). This would be the new style for every Disney animated theatrical movie afterwards, apart from The Princess and the Frog (2009) and Winnie the Pooh (2011).
- GoofsWhen the scoreboard is seen the beginning of the scene at the game, the scores are: "Taters: 4 2 4 1 2 1 :14 Acorns: 3 2 4 1 3 2 :13" But if the scores are added up, the Acorns score comes to 15.
- Quotes
Mayor Turkey Lurkey: [to an alien] Oh, we surrender! Here, take the key to the city!
[alien zaps the key]
Mayor Turkey Lurkey: [holds up another key] Key to my car?
[alien zaps key and car at the same time]
Mayor Turkey Lurkey: [holds a box of Tic Tacs] Tic Tac?
[alien zaps Lurkey]
- Crazy creditsAt the very end of the closing credits, Buck and Chicken Little appear, looking out at the audience. Chicken Little says "Can we get some popcorn on the way out" and Buck points out of the screen and says "I think there's some on the floor". (Note that this scene is only in the 3D version. The 2D version ends with the Walt Disney Pictures logo.)
- Alternate versionsThe 3D version has many changes to make use of the process:
- Fireflies were added to the "Where to Begin..." shot, along with the removal of a flare.
- The "Walt Disney Pictures presents" now has a sky background, and both texts have a drop shadow effect while the top slowly zooms in.
- A bench was removed when the water tower ball crushed the movie theater.
- Two extra balls were added during the "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" song.
- An extra plane was added when Fish Out of Water was re-enacting King Kong.
- Extra dirt was added when the cow fell to the centerfield.
- When Chicken Little tries to point at the piece of sky, he now points at the camera instead of the left.
- When we first see the aliens, their grappling hooks are now moved to the center of the screen.
- When the aliens switched from their grappling hooks to their knives, the front was rotated so it could look at the camera.
- Both camera and alien overlays were now stretched to fit the entire image.
- One of the shots to when the aliens start cracking parts of the fake sky to start their invasion was re-animated, and a bunch of debris was added falling in.
- Electric sparks were added when the motherships separated. This could possibly have originally been a goof in the 2D version since the sounds of it were left intact.
- Extra magic dust was added after the characters sing "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," and the credits appear a second early.
- Credits for the 3D conversion were added, extending the credits to when the music ends.
- The Disney logo was replaced with a specially made post-credits scene featuring Buck Cluck saying goodbye to the audience and Chicken Little asking if they can have some popcorn once they leave, to which his father replied that there is some on the floor.
- ConnectionsEdited into On the Set: Chicken Little (2005)
- SoundtracksStir It Up
Written by Danny Sembello and Allee Willis (as Alta Sherral Willis)
Performed by Patti LaBelle and Joss Stone
Produced by Mark Hammond
Recorded by Dave Dillbeck
Mixed by Serban Ghenea
Patti LaBelle appears courtesy of Def Soul Classics/Island Def Jam
Joss Stone appears courtesy of EMI Music North America
Featured review
The Sky fell all right, but The Story was already a shattered mess
There have been many, many movies that Disney has put out that I've had a high desire to see "succeed". All in all, most Disney animated movies that have made it to the big screen in the more modern cinema history of, say, from "Beauty and the Beast" all the way up to "Lilo & Stitch" and "Brother Bear", have done that. Perhaps some are only a financial success, like "Treasure Planet", but certainly they were popular enough with one group of moviegoers or another to have a good box office take.
Unfortunately, "Chicken Little" is not a success.
In pooling my thoughts to review this movie, I am so highly disappointed that good animation is its only high mark. In this pivotal point in the history of The Walt Disney Company, where its relationship with Pixar is still on the rocks while a new president is stepping up, I wanted this movie to be a smashing success. I wanted this to be the movie that starts another Golden Age revolution, where it is possible that Disney takes the top spot in producing awesome animated movies.
I fear that there aren't many good storytellers left at Disney Feature Animation, and there didn't seem to by any present for the making of "Chicken Little". The story itself, chronicling the tales of the title character proving to his community that he is not a failure, was a good enough premise. Though it wasn't executed well at all. Instead of solid, premise-building scenes where it's main characters interact well with others (and get the audience laughing along the way), we get a sappy, melodramatic mini-soap with voice actors who don't have a good script...followed immediately by, more times than I'd care to recall, potty humor gags. Judging by the audience of my screening, made up of at least 40% little kids, only they found that funny.
With so many 3D animated movies coming out recently, like "Madagascar", "Robots" and "Valiant", all released this year, many companies are trying to prove their movie-making chops to us movie-goers. They can make a very beautiful looking movie, with wonderfully rendered characters that can move so fluidly and realistic...but the very vital element of sharing a good story is missing in action. It's my belief that a great story without great animation will be a much better movie than one that looks great, but has a weak story. Though, both elements are what made Pixar's "The Incredibles" an Oscar-contending, $265 million hit. Computer animation is, indeed, not the shoe-in, cure-all solution to a great movie.
To boot, "Chicken Little" has a weak soundtrack, composed mainly of songs that were popular at one time or another...to the pre-teen-aged crowd. Instead of beautiful, original, fully-composed songs like "A Whole New World" in "Aladdin" (or anything close to it), we are treated to Spice Girls' "If You Wanna Be My Lover" (complete, by the way, with karaoke subtitles). Unoriginal and highly annoying.
Having sufficiently railed on the movie, it is my belief that the corporate suits in charge of financing Feature Animation have more blame for the steady decline in their movies than anybody working under them. It seems they think they know what makes a successful movie, over-riding many decisions of the animators and storytellers--those who are still at Feature Animation--who have proved they can make great movies. I believe said pencil pushers are what made last year's "Home on the Range" fail, critically and financially.
All in all, I believe "Chicken Little" is a failure that I define as hot having a good story to match its sweet computer animation. In Disney's quest to prove that they are still the Best of the Best, movies like this will prove to the world that they are merely the best of the rest. And we all know that it's not the Disney we grew up on and cherished.
"Chicken Little" gets 4 of 10 stars
Unfortunately, "Chicken Little" is not a success.
In pooling my thoughts to review this movie, I am so highly disappointed that good animation is its only high mark. In this pivotal point in the history of The Walt Disney Company, where its relationship with Pixar is still on the rocks while a new president is stepping up, I wanted this movie to be a smashing success. I wanted this to be the movie that starts another Golden Age revolution, where it is possible that Disney takes the top spot in producing awesome animated movies.
I fear that there aren't many good storytellers left at Disney Feature Animation, and there didn't seem to by any present for the making of "Chicken Little". The story itself, chronicling the tales of the title character proving to his community that he is not a failure, was a good enough premise. Though it wasn't executed well at all. Instead of solid, premise-building scenes where it's main characters interact well with others (and get the audience laughing along the way), we get a sappy, melodramatic mini-soap with voice actors who don't have a good script...followed immediately by, more times than I'd care to recall, potty humor gags. Judging by the audience of my screening, made up of at least 40% little kids, only they found that funny.
With so many 3D animated movies coming out recently, like "Madagascar", "Robots" and "Valiant", all released this year, many companies are trying to prove their movie-making chops to us movie-goers. They can make a very beautiful looking movie, with wonderfully rendered characters that can move so fluidly and realistic...but the very vital element of sharing a good story is missing in action. It's my belief that a great story without great animation will be a much better movie than one that looks great, but has a weak story. Though, both elements are what made Pixar's "The Incredibles" an Oscar-contending, $265 million hit. Computer animation is, indeed, not the shoe-in, cure-all solution to a great movie.
To boot, "Chicken Little" has a weak soundtrack, composed mainly of songs that were popular at one time or another...to the pre-teen-aged crowd. Instead of beautiful, original, fully-composed songs like "A Whole New World" in "Aladdin" (or anything close to it), we are treated to Spice Girls' "If You Wanna Be My Lover" (complete, by the way, with karaoke subtitles). Unoriginal and highly annoying.
Having sufficiently railed on the movie, it is my belief that the corporate suits in charge of financing Feature Animation have more blame for the steady decline in their movies than anybody working under them. It seems they think they know what makes a successful movie, over-riding many decisions of the animators and storytellers--those who are still at Feature Animation--who have proved they can make great movies. I believe said pencil pushers are what made last year's "Home on the Range" fail, critically and financially.
All in all, I believe "Chicken Little" is a failure that I define as hot having a good story to match its sweet computer animation. In Disney's quest to prove that they are still the Best of the Best, movies like this will prove to the world that they are merely the best of the rest. And we all know that it's not the Disney we grew up on and cherished.
"Chicken Little" gets 4 of 10 stars
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- Also known as
- Chicken Little 3D
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- Budget
- $150,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $135,386,665
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $40,049,778
- Nov 6, 2005
- Gross worldwide
- $314,432,837
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Color
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