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Chicken Little. Disney's very first 3D CGI movie. And it has some strange identity issues. With a story that's infuriating, jokes that are unfunny, and pop culture references everywhere. In fact the majority of this movie all seems like one big piece of padding. Like they're stretching to make a movie at all. Made out of nothing, and stretched to barely an hour. This is Disney's TERRIBLE Chicken Little....
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...But sure, I guess it's pretty nostalgic too haha. 
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Okay I will
Any thoughts on doing a Pikmin 4 review video for the trailer? Or did you do it some where else already and I missed it?
You used to be my favorite Pikmin channel back in the day for analysis, and it feels like a dream that Pikmin 4 is coming out finally.
kinda hated the fact that this was insulted and it was one of my childhood movies
this collab honestly felt half-hearted, I don't think giving Kezza occasional chances to have a word in edgewise adds anything, it's like you had a complete script without her and half and hour in the editing room to put her in it.
Please don't do a collab again. The script was clearly rushed. I hated how it kept bouncing from you to the girl and vice-versa.
The fox girl getting her brain scrambled always freaked me out. It didn’t help that the pig wanted to keep her that way cuz she’s nice now and he can date her.
I haven't watched the movie in a while now and this statement makes me remember how much i loved the film and hated it
It is kinda fucked, but then again, It's not like she a likable character. I dare to say it's worse than Gurgi from The Black Cauldron
Why do I feel like the Patrick Warburton alien officer wasn’t even acting when he said “That’s horrifying….”.
@@ferminmarkpousada1455 I wouldn't call a lobotomy on a "mean girl" character making her submissive and feminine "kinda fucked"
She had to be like Dio Brando to deserve something like this
And the pig becomes an even worst character bc of this
On the other hand she was a irredeemable monster of a bully. I use to be upset that shark face bully didn’t get vaporized as a kid but became some southern bell hick.
Fun fact: While I thought this movie was "ok," the original concept looked miles better. Chicken Little and the Ugly Duckling were gender swapped in this version, Chicken Little was a bit more paranoid, she still didn't have the greatest relationship with her father but he seemed a bit nicer, and it was supposed to be about her going to summer camp to have her anxiety lowered and get a better relationship with her father. Also the camp counselor was secretly a wolf in disguise, Chicken Little being the only one to see through that disguise.
Now I want to see a completed Chicken Little film with this plot.
So like the story of the original Chicken Little combined with The Boy (girl in this scenario I guess) Who Cried Wolf. That actually sounds really interesting.(Definitely better than what we got…)
@@JamesP7 Fact: David Stainton asked the movies writer/director Mark Dindal to re-write the story because he thought it needed a different approach. What followed was the team rewriting and redoing the entire movie over the course of a few months.
@@mariobabbo3497 This was the result 😡
If the writers wanted to write an alien invasion movie, they should’ve adapt HG Wells’s War of the Worlds novel, and this only need to be taken seriously, like Atlantis: The Lost Empire. To those who said it would be “too gruesome” by having the Martians attacking London and vaporizing Englishmen, Atlantis: The Lost Empire did the same thing.
I still have a soft spot for this movie, and Chicken Little himself is easy to root for. Buck, on the other hand, is a horrible father, and not even being voiced by the legandary Garry Marshall can redeem him.
I have a soft spot for it too
I always loved this movie. It shocks me so many ppl hate it
How old are you guys? 🤨
@@lavenderflowersfall280 does it matter? Am I not allowed to love a dumb kids movie after 20? Cuz if not then this isn't a world I wanna live in
@@lavenderflowersfall280 You when you realize adults don't stop liking cartoons: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?!?!
Chicken Little: *exists*
Buck Chuck: I can’t tell you how embarrassed I am, folks!
This comment also works if you replace "Buck Cluck" with "Disney".
That's sad😢 a neglectful father
Yup and a whole town that blames Chicken Little for nearly destroying their town, even though it was everyone being hysterical that nearly destroyed the town.@@darkstarmoonshadow8892
There's a deleted scene, where Buck is making pancakes for Chicken Little, because he is trying to be better. Some more scenes like that could have least shown Buck trying to be a good father and wanting to spend time with his son.
Damn
The deleted scene from the original concept they recorded and storyboard does this pretty well, he is frustrated and yelling about being assaulted multiple times, and yells in the heat of the moment he wished his daughter was more normal, only to instantly realize what he did and instantly goes to fix it,
In this whenever he does something terrible he just ignores his son immediately after, and only begrudgingly starts to care when he is forced to
The part that ruins Buck's character for me is during the second time the entire town bullies his son. It would've been far better for that moment to have him actually stand up for himself and point out the fact that all of these adults are bullying a small child after it was their decision to freak out over what that child said. That should've been the moment that he put his foot down. Even if he doesn't really believe Chicken Little. That was the moment that Chicken Little needed him the most. Truly there are no worse parental figures out there than him.
He’s far from the worse father figure out there, but sure?
Or you know, make him support him but slowly make Buck join the crew in an actual parental way, like ask him evidence of what he's saying is correct (based in the weird way he acted earlier that night similar to a year ago), which he does lacks, and then be angry for waking up half the city for no reason.
Make Buck wanting to trust and support Chicken Little but being unable to due to the seemed, a disappointed parent for the seemingly irresponsible and dangerous behavior of his only child.
Also, make him worry about the bullying but make him give a solution that doesn't work for his case, like talking with Foxie which would not work because with all the city he still has the image of the dumb chick who said the sky is falling.
@@N12015that's what I was thinking. The dad should be asking his son why he believes the sky is falling. His son is clearly passionate about this idea so he should at least try to understand him instead of getting upset that his image is tarnished by the town again
My God that was a perfectly timed advertisement, a falling sky onto chicken little directly transitioning to a chic'fil'a chicken sandwich xD
I got the same advert lol! What does RUclips think that I would like Chic'Fil'a just from seeing Chicken Little? Tbh idk. But for me when I got it the advert for the Fil'a chiken sandwich it didn't play there, it played somewhere else in the video, but it still was funny/coincidental that we both got the same advert just in different places/timings of the video.
So that's why they're so tasty.
I got a whopper, whopper, whopper, whopper ad there
“Worst father of the year goes to: Chicken littles father!”
Honestly I can agree with Buck Cluck being a bad father, but honestly I never understood nor agree with everyone including the Nostalgia Critic that he was "mean" with Chicken Little. Never did I saw Buck bully or be mean with his own son throughout the film but he was mostly embarrassing and especially not supporting and not defending him from the Townspeople who were the actual ones that were mean to Chicken Little.
True.
Buck
@@EChaconHe was emotional abusive. When he son wants a to job a sports team, he automatically starts putting him down. He distanced himself whenever chicken little is publicly embarrassed.
Now we have Jaeger Clade from Strange World that is even worse
This movie does so much wrong, Everyone's such a massive bully to Chicken Little, with the entire town bullying him, his own terrible father completely emotionally distances himself from him, siding with said bullies, it's humor is either really mean, or just not funny, and it's attempts at being like _Shrek,_ (parodying fairytales and using pop songs and pop culture references,) completely fall flat. But Kirby is cute, I really feel Chicken Little's struggle, and I still have the tiniest ping of nostalgia for it. Overall, definitely *not* Disney's best, possibly it's worse. R.I.P. Don Knotts, AKA, Mayor Turkey Lurkey. And thank you, Kezza-Henshin for those hot takes.
Oh dang, Don Knotts was in this? Poor guy..
Yeah, even felt like the entire narrative was bullying chicken little
@@RawReviews. Yep, and it was his final role before his death the next year. Not the best note to go out on.
The beginning of chicken little reminds me of shrek as it shows a book lol.
Aliens should've destroyed the planet
Even if it is bad, it does have some unironically funny moments
Yeah
yeah the scene where he "falls off" his bed always made me laugh up until the 'wHaT wErE wE TaLkInG aBoUt'
Any scene with the porcupine is fun even though he's quiet 100% of the time
In my opinion, this is the greatest Disney movie ever made
Agreed like the clown car bunny stroller or Kirby etc.
It's funny how DreamWorks intentionally mocked Disney with Shrek, and that worked fine, and then Disney tried to do the same thing, and completely missed the point.
This was less of a mocking and more like them trying to take notes from shrek hence why the opening is disrespecting all of the other ways disney and films in general open.
@@BrontoSmilodon1 Yeah, I knew that too, I just worded it poorly.
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@@BrontoSmilodon1 Disney was kinda going through an identity crisis at this point.
SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME THE WORLD WAS GONNA ROLL ME! etc. etc.
Chicken Little crawled on its malnourished arms and legs, so Zootopia can run a marathon.
Amen
This isn't an adaptation of the Boy Who Cried Wolf which is a story of someone who makes fun people who respond to a dangerous situation and pays for it.
There is an actual Chicken Little story where the moral is don't jump to conclusions which is what this movie is mildly adapting.
Plus both stories are in the public domain so disney could still do a Boy who cried wolf if they want to even back in 2005.
There are two things that came out with (and after) this movie.
1. The soundtrack is awesome, mainly One Little Slip by the Bare-Naked Ladies and the cover of Don’t Go Breaking my Heart by Elton John
2. After this movie, Disney kind of bounced backed with CG movies with Meet the Robinsons two years after (which is a very underrated movie.)
Don’t forgot Bolt. That will forever be the GOAT!
Meet the Robinsons really is a good movie
I’ve watched it at least twice now and now that you’ve mentioned it it makes me want to go back and watch it again
@@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766 It’s one of the best movie Disney made during the early 2000s along with Lilo and Stitch and Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Also, this movie had Adam West in it, so that’s a thumbs up….
@@osmanyousif7849 So did Meet the Robinsons (he was the Pizza Delivery Superhero)
13:00 this actually makes sense that he'd want to hide it since his dad taught him that his voice doesnt matter and he should just lay low and not exist-
Once again, demonstrating how Buck Cluck is a terrible father.
The reference at the beginning was actually a reference to the original story of Chicken Little, not the Boy who cried wolf. Especially since the latter the boy had done this multiple times and this was the first time Chicken Little mentioned the sky. He only did that twice, and was actually telling the truth both times.
I loved this movie as a kid
It still makes me happy now
But it is absolutely a disaster
A beautiful, wonderful disaster of a movie
agreed
Took the words out of me
My personal guilty pleasure, the very first movie I got to see in theatre.
I agree 👻
yep this is exactly how i feel about this a movie XD
This movie's script was changed so often that it's a monster baby of multiple stories. At first it was about a little girl chicken who was afraid of everything. She learns to be courageous by the end of the film, and makes friends.
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the thing for me with this movie when i was younger was that i always liked the first half BEFORE it went into the alien stuff. i don't know why, but as someone who went through being an outcast who to this day still doesn't know WHY an entire agegroup of kids in my town hated me so much, even when i started 8th grade at a new school everyone seemed to know me and hated me for no reason i know of. i never did anything bad. i moved when i was younger into a completely new province and just suffered endless bullying for my dialect (i'm norwegian for those wondering). chicken being treated so horribly for no reason probably gave me some kind of bond to him. my dad, even though he loves me, was a doormat while me and my mom fought CONSTANTLY. it was incredibly bad, and maybe some part of me always liked that despite it all, he has his outcast friends, something even i didn't have for a while. the alien stuff i never remembered LMAO. the second the plate came in my brain shut off as a kid and i stopped caring. that bully becoming a pastel princess in the end was something i did not remember and no i am horrified
Yeah, its understandable that you didn't remember the second half, neither did I, expect for the sky is breaking. It feels like two different movies with different messages
Buck being a terrible father is very realistic and not an angle that we see in many kids movies.
That’s actually a decent hot take!
I like that the movie shows this angle.
That's why it's sad/heart wrenchigly cringe
Yes, but it doesn’t feel like that is what they wanted to show. They could have done this as social commentary but it feels like they made him terrible on accident and we are still supposed to root for them as a family. Wherher or not that is true is a different matter of course.
Okay, but the fact that chicken little would have been impossible to strike out would be so useful. Have him up before Foxy Loxy and that’s an extra score every time she gets a home run!!
Chicken Little does not have a kids voice, its disturbs me.
Neither does Dipper and he's also a Disney character.
So dose Stewie :/
Neither do Donald’s nephews in the Ducktales reboot, but that didn’t stop us from drooling over that show, did it?
Chicken Little is an actual story, not the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Actually Disney did an adaptation of Chicken Little before.
This movie is definitely bad, but damn it I can't help but love it. My dearest memories are watching this movie with my parents on a rainy night lol
My mom still fondly thinks of that one scene from this movie whenever she hears “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls. So I guess I can’t hate it. ☺️
Same here
It's a hate to love love to hate movie
Love your work, but chicken little was terrible disaster when it came out, but it grew a cult like fandom. And chicken little is a whole different story from the boy who cried wolf in the literal sense. Meaning chicken little was another childhood story that goes back as far as the 1800s.
It made 300 million when it was released, so idk about it being a terrible disaster (the reviews weren't good).
I watched the dvd like 50 times and I loved every bit of it. Accidentally discovering the special features just added to that.
As sad as it is that I wouldn’t have loved this movie if I first watched it in the present, I’m glad to be a 2000’s kid.
You cannot disrespect Chicken Little like that
Actually, Patrick Warburton was the voice of the blue alien cop while Adam West played the action movie version of Chicken “Ace” Little in the end.
Meet the Robinsons: keep moving forward.
Chicken little: *fuck you*
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The scariest thing is ive seen fathers like the one in the film.... Its not even an exaggeration😭😭
This movie could not decide what it wants to be plot-wise.
An underdog who is looked down but later wins the town's admiration, A coming of age story or an alien invasion sci-fi flick.
This feels like 3 different movie writers wanted to take turns when coming up with the plot but not checking to see if it would make sense.
The first attempt at Zootopia
28:05 That's actually the late Adam West. Patrick Warburton was the blue alien with the shades.
This is one of those movies that you watch because of how much of a fun chaotic mess it is.
They had about a 20-30 minute short film, and then they were like “Screw it: ALIENS”, and not to mention just how awful the town is to Chicken Little himself. The kid makes a scene *ONE TIME* and everybody just turns him into a punching bag (including his own dad).
Disney animated movies do often show the darkness of the world, but it's to teach kids to be cautious of potential danger not to make them feel miserable about their lives or think that everyone out there is a monster.
I posted a similar statement on BionicPig's review of this movie but I'll always stand by the idea that kids with abusive families watched this movie differently than other kids because they understand Chicken Little's desperation for approval
Edit: just wanted to say that regardless this movie has some really good bits like 24:58 legit got a laugh from me
Why is it so confusing that they're talking about an event that destroyed the city for one year when in real life we still talk about terrorist attacks after decades.
I always found this movie uniquely funny, wonder what others think about it
I hear ya
You can say that again I don't think anyone can purposely recreate its comedy
It’s about time that Dazz finally got to review this movie everyone knows🐓
Now all we need is for Schaffrillas Productions to do a cinematic review on this film.
Would you believe that there is a deleted scene that makes Buck Cluck look even worse as he was caught briefly on the news saying “My son is crazy” without realizing he was being filmed.
"It is a mess of a movie, but it's my mess of a movie"
There are a lot of things you mention I agree with but at the same time I just can't seem to hate this movie
I HATED the dad in this movie so much, putting the opinions of everyone else over his own kid
The premise isn’t based on The Boy Who Cried Wolf, there’s an actual Chicken Little story about an anthropomorphic chicken who thought the sky was falling when an acorn fell on his head
Oh yeah
So the hint was Stuart little with the guy from cars in his mouth
and it was hinting CHICKEN LITTLE?
Dazz you're confusing but you make me happy almost every upload
in hindsight Im seeing it now-- Chick Hicks in the mouth of Stuart Little....little Chick in Stuart Little....chicken little
I think he was trying to say "Chika in little."
Isn't it ironic that the pig was singing I will survive.
And then crashes himself into the bell tower.
unironically this was one of my favourite movies when i was a kid
Oh my god I never noticed this before, but the blanket's pattern mimics the sky panel that fell!
This movie tried so hard to be Shrek
People only remember Chicken Little when they get him as a summon in Kingdom Hearts II and ask “what’s that from?” Top tip, very useful for The Scene of the Fire level in Timeless River, he keeps the Hot Rods occupied which is a miracle because they are the worst.
I did not know this was a Disney movie... so the first time I saw it was in an IKEA play area. It genuinely really scared me as a kid.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this but Chicken Little's real name is apparently Ace Cluck. Chicken Little is just his nickname that I have no idea why they use as his real name.
16:46 I didn't know The Incredibles invented saw blades. I need to call Brad Bird, Home Depot is selling them without giving him credit for the idea.
did he call movie star chicken little Patrick Warburton? cause that was 100% without a doubt, the late and great Adam West.
It was a recipe for disaster
A four-course meal of no siree
It seemed that happily ever after
Was happy everyone was after me
It was a cup of good intentions (hoo)
A tablespoon of one big mess (hoo)
A dash of over reaction (aaah)
I assume you know the rest (aaah)
One little slip, one little slip
It was a fusion of confusion (hoo)
With a few confounding things
I guess I probably took the wrong direction
Well, I admit I might have missed a sign or two
I ran a light past your affection
At Humiliation Avenue
I took a right turn at confusion (hoo)
A left when I should've gone straight on through (hoo)
I ran ahead with my assumptions (aaah)
And we all know what that can do (aaah)
One little slip, one little slip
It was a fusion of confusion (hoo)
And a few confounding things
I get the feeling in this town
I'll never live 'till I live down the one mistake that seems to follow me around
But they'll forget about the sky
When they all realize this guy's about to try to learn to fly or hit the ground (aaah)
It was a cup of good intentions (hoo)
A tablespoon of one big mess (hoo)
A dash of over reaction (aaah)
And I assume you know the rest (aaah)
One little slip, one little slip
It was a humble little stumble (hoo)
With a big ungraceful
One little slip, one little slip
It was a fusion of confusion (hoo)
With a few confounding things
‘Son, it’s too dangerous!’
Oh, so NOW you decide to be a good parent?
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine, but then again I haven't actually seen the movie itself since probably like 2010.
24:57 You have to admit the baby alien is adorably funny
Good or bad, Fish and Kirby carried the movie.
And Runt of the litter
I always thought Fish was the best character and I still do, lol.
I can agree!
Same, Fish hit different
Same
Whats nostalgic for me about this movie is that it was for me the starting point watching youtube reviews of animated movies. I remember watching mr. enter review it in like 2015 man that is such a long time ago now.
This movie is one of the few that hate not because of the movie itself but what it did to my life. I was bullied for my buck teeth, and this added fuel to that fire.
My birth father was also so abusive that I went into foster care, and I recognized the father in this film was abusive upon first watch.
Eh whatever
This movie shouldn't have tried to compete against Shrek. It should have been more emotional, heartwarming, touching, serious, dark, dramatic, and tragic, without pop culture references, have original songs (like One Little Slip, All I Know, and Shake Your Tail Feather) instead of pop culture-oriented songs, Chicken Little's father, Buck Cluck, being much more likeble, sympathetic, and nice and always comforting and helping his son, and having consistency/connection between the baseball tournament plot and the alien invasion plot.
This movies good asf I loved how mean his dad was to him it made the movie so much more emotionally impactful
The main character haunted me before I turned 10.
As a child this movie always made me deeply uncomfortable
in a way of which I cannot explain
not to mention the padding wasn't good for my impatient lil brain
This movie had a ton of executive interference that made the film worse at every turn. It's production is very sad
I hate this movie and that’s why I absolutely adore it.
I can't 😂
I grew up on this garbage so it's my garbage!
@@Streetcleanergaming I never knew you watched Chicken Little. I thought you only watched movies with a twist villain that inspired you to deceive Kirby.
Really loved watching the movie 😄 it's been a couple of years since I first saw it but I still think it's PEAK
I mean the panel was camouflaged into the sky, they were following the glowstick.
I just want to point out, adult movie Chicken Little was Adam West, not Patrick Warburton.
This was one of those movies younger me would never re-watch
This movie. Especially the corn field scene terrified me as a kid
Buck Cluck makes Goku look like the better dad.
Jaeger Clade is even worse
I think it's telling that more people (me included) remember the songs from the movie more than the movie itself.
At least they succedd in making everybody agree' this is the worst father in Disney history'? xD
Chicken little is that movie people should watch while they’re absolutely baked with their friends
This movie was so bad, that I hated it even as a kid.
It made me so insanely uncomfortable... from the pig just being "haha, he's fat please laugh at him", to the fox basically having her personality deleted...
This movie was weird and uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
God I was OBSESSED with this movie as a kid! I can hardly stand it nowadays since it feels so cynical at it's heart but I will maintain that Fish Out Of Water is a treasure and deserved better. Maybe he should make a cameo in zootopia 2 lol
I’ve heard that Chicken Little is supposed to have Chicken Little as a girl who suffers from paranoia, and while heading off to summer camp, Chicken Little sees how the camp counselor is a wolf in disguise, so this is basically based off of a fable, The Boy (only reverse gendered) Who Cried Wolf along with Chicken Little. Now, we get an alien invasion movie with too many pop cultural references that has nothing to do with folklore, fairy tales, fables and classic literature as Disney is supposed to make movies based on that.
This movie had a lot of corporate influence/meddling behind it including Buck's character which which is why I blame Disney for its outcome.
True. Mark Dindall (director of Disney's The Emperor's New Groove), who directed this film, actually hated the end product because of this executive meddling on the part of Disney. You know that the movie is bad when even the director also hates the movie.
This movie was great!
I'm Brazilian, and I think this movie is more or less.
@@davimaia5948 That's fair man, I'm mexican and this is legit one of my childhoods all-time movies
The video game version of the movie was better tbh on PS2 and gamecube
I liked how you two were like bad cop and food cop to the movie
Aka: Disney´s most "Dreamworks" Movie
To think Disney has now regressed to even below this.
This movie's art style reminds me of "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales" from the early 1990s
The orange alien looks like the burst wisp from Sonic Colors 😂😂😂
I had a wacky childhood so I honestly though this was the only normal dad in cartoons, so it was oddly comforting to me at the time!
This comment is unrelated to the video but Brother Bear is a very underrated movie.
This was actually one of my favourite childhood movies, Slovenian dub made it so memorable we didn't really think of how little sense the story made. Also it helped that Chicken Little didn't sound like a middle aged man, but I digress. The one thing that bothered me (and still does) is why the hell does Chicken Little wear a business suit and sunglasses on the CD.
Your kidding me, until this video, I didn’t know that there was a “one year” piece of text. I assumed the whole time it was the same year
I actually find the alien suits pretty menacing. They kinda look like the guardians from Breath of The Wild.
You know, Can we go back to where Disney was writing *good* kinds of fairytales and stories?
The sky is falling down and I’m off to tell the king
It’s so fun to think of Daz and Kezz as yin and Yang, glass half empty and glass half full
I wonder who added a Burst Wisp from Sonic Colours into the film.
Dazz refers to Chicken Little as a 2006 animated kids’ film throughout this video. Just to correct him, Chicken Little was actually released in 2005, he’s a year off.
I will always hold a soft spot for this movie since it reminds me of TAWOG and I can only predict that the movie will be just like this.
I never saw this one as a kid so I don't have any nostalgia about it...and I don't HATE the main character but the amount of bullying he gets and A YEAR AFTER THE FACT is just too much. They overdid it and instead of becoming sympathetic it just became frustrating and aggravating. I think this would be better if all of this happened the next day or over a week after the first incident. Then you'd understand that a small town like this would live off of this news for a while. And maybe, you could have people warming up to Chciken Little, and slowly forgetting about the stuff...and then he scores the baseball and they forget it again but then the aliens happen and they just get angry with him again...or maybe, like in the original tale, don't believe him bc of the previous incident. They just think it'a acorns again and then the invasion really happens and it turns out the Chicken was right all along. and you can absolutely write Buck as an asshole father, who cares more about his reputation but he's got to get his comeuppance at the end...so his change is meaningful. Bc as it stands now, he was only on his son';s side bc he became the town hero. But just wait until Chicken does something embarrassing again, or something Buck doesn't see as pretigous or manly enough or whatever and he'll drop the kid again. The film portrayed him absolutely as the kind of guy, who is there for people only when it makes him look good by proxy, and when things go well. The moment going gets though he's not there anymore and joins the other side. Also the ending for Foxy Loxy/Locksy was disturbing. She got her brain scrambled and her personalty altered into something else, not through an organic growth but through brainwashing/mind control machine and she stayed that bc some guy had hots for her, and now can get together with her. It's a horror movie plotline. Not a 'happy ending'.
Fun fact: Disney actually DIDN'T own Indiana Jones when Chicken little came out.
I never hated it because my school made us watch it, so ig my nostalgia is sorta protecting it, but in my school, when they made us watch it, everybody booed lmao