From the start it’s clear that Chicken Little, our feathered protagonist, is despised among the inhabitants of animal town Oakey Oakes for creating a fuss with his original ruse, but we soon learn that pieces of the sky are in fact dropping like bits of space-ship projected hexagons – because they ARE space-ship projected hexagons! Chicken is torn between trying to tell his friends Fish Out Of Water, Abby Mallard and Runt Of The Litter the truth, while also trying to live down the initial incident and making things up with his father Buck Cluck, who loves his kid but learns himself that he must trust him when the aliens – yes, I’m not making this up – eventually show, apparently intent on destroying the town. Using the age-old “sky is falling” routine as the film’s opening, Chicken Little, the movie, quickly dispenses with the whole thing and goes for high-tech, high-concept gags, seemingly making the whole thing up as it goes along.
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Likewise, to go with all the fancy new visual tricks, the plot has been given an upgrade too – this is not the Chicken Little we remember from our childhood or even from Walt’s own short version of the tale from the 1940s. So, how did the boys and girls at Disney do, having to learn to draw all over again with a mouse of a different kind and a computer? Well, Chicken Little makes its point well enough, and the new technique on a story usually reserved for good old-fashioned cartooning marks itself out as a different kind of bird from the outset. Which now puts Chicken Little in a very strange place…it could actually end up as being Disney’s first – and last – solo animated film, what with the upcoming The Wild being another pickup, and all future films being marketed as Disney/Pixar releases. There are lots of other factors involved, of course, but don’t put it pass this little bird that Chicken Little is the reason Disney and Pixar have recently married, with the recent sale of The Lamp to The Mouse, which buys in Pixar’s winning team lock stock and barrel.
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How true that was, both for the fans awaiting the Studio’s long-in-the-making return to classic stories and for the Mouse House itself, seeing as this was their first time out of the gate on a completely computer animated movie away from Pixar ( Dinosaur doesn’t really count as it was made with partial live-action backgrounds by effectively Disney’s special effects department, while Valiant was a pickup from Vanguard Animation that suffered unfair poor publicity compared to the Little media-blitz so as not to outshine the Mouse’s own feathered hero, whose debut came a couple of months after).Īnd, as it happens in hindsight, Chicken Little turned out to be a fairly important movie for another couple of reasons too: both as a milestone turning point from Disney’s traditional hand-drawn style, and as the film that more or less showed Pixar that the old hands could still pull one out of the hat and do quite well on their own, thank-you very much.
When it arrived in theaters late last year, Disney’s animated re-telling of the classic fable carried the tagline “Chicken Little, Movie Big”.
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