+Jose Barrozo More like the head of Pixar (John Lasseter) has been a producer for a lot Disney's latest films. (Which explains why Disney has been doing great lately!)
6 year old: That was a great movie! I want to watch it again! 12 year old: Umm ok? This isn't as good as i remembered it but it is still ok? 23 year old: This is garbage!
I actually watch it as a kid and was like good movie! cause i din't understand what the characters were talking about I only know that a kid or a chicken isn't liked because he acted like an idiot since he said the sky was falling and I thought that was dumb as a kid and he gets popular by saving the town by aliens and gets the girl And we had the dvd! it's was probably my brother's movie that mom gave him as a kid, and she din't watch it with him and we never really watched it, I was watching other movies that I really liked at the time and when I thought of watching it I thought about rewatching another movie first and when that's the movie left, I would beg her to buy me a new movies to watch
Chicken Little is basically the movie equivalent of a season 8/9 episode of Spongebob. Not the worst thing ever, but definitely not that good, and the tone of everything holds it back.
The thing about Chicken Little that really angers me actually isn't the quality of the final product. It's the quality of the final product compared to what it had started out as. If you watch the deleted scenes and behind the scenes featurettes of the film, you can see they started with something that had so much potential. Originally, Chicken Little was to be portrayed as a neurotic girl who panics over nothing like a noise that she thought was a monster of the night turning out to be her father getting a midnight snack. Also, there is another deleted scene that actually portrayed Buck as a somewhat loving, yet incompetant, father by attempting to make breakfast for his son and shooing away the paparazzi because they are embarrassing his son and there was a Russel Crowe joke that, I admit, made me smile a bit. Seeing those scenes really made me hate the movie even more and it even made me angry at Disney for a while. It could've been a Disney classic instead of the shit it is.
WhiteWolfSnowy On the one hand: *GOLD!* (Snow White, Pinnochio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, The Jungle Book, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Emperor's New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, Enchanted Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, Big hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Mary Poppins, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Pirates of the Carribbean, Saving Mr. Banks, The Nippers, the recent Star Wars films) On the other hand: *PAINFUL AGONIZING FAILURE!* (The Black Cauldron, Super Mario Bros. Inspector Gadget movie, Mr. Magoo movie, Bedtime Stories, The Haunted Mansion, 90% of the Disney Sequels by DisneyToon Studios, Home on the Range, Chicken Little, Planes, The Lome Ranger, Alice in Wonderland, etc.)
I'm seriously shocked that you didn't do a full rant on Buck. Every other person I've seen who've reviewed Chicken Little would often rant and yell out loud on how despicable and unlikeable he is. Oh well, nothing can be done.
I remember back in the mid 2000s, the merchandise always depicted Buck Cluck with a snarl on his face. Watching it in theatres at the age of 4, I honestly thought he was the villain of the movie up until…aliens.
I know right? It's like they were planning to make him the villain originally, but Disney thought that they shouldn't have a direct family member of the main character as the villain, so they attempted to get out of the ditch they were digging by putting in an alien invasion.
+Kate x Yeah, that makes sense. Good theory. Though, personally, I don't know why they rejected that, when in one of their movies, a family member WAS a villain. (In lion king, where Scar was Simba's uncle).
Funny you mention that, from what I've read Elsa from Frozen was going to be a straight up Villain as her snow queen role, but after writing the song "let it go" the writers didn't feel like she should have to be villian so they changed her to be good and added in Hans.
Atlantis, The Treasure Planet and Chicken Little are my three underrated Disney films. Atlantis had excelent action sequens, great story and characters. The Treasure Planet had good action sequens, excelent main characters, criativity idea with Steam Punk style. And Chicken Little is hated by everyone, but in my opinion is very funnie, had good comentarys and social critic, a nice message about bullying and why we shouldn´t make fun of the peoples, and even a message for negligent fathers....
The baseball scene was funny and was included because it was Chicken Little trying to solve everything by recreating his dad's life, but it shows just copying someone and doing what they do does not solve your own unique problems.
It totally is sad that Mr. Dindal went to directed the amazing Cats Don't Dance and Emperor's New Groove to directed this atrocious. I do feel bad, because Mark did want to keep the original primers.
I thought the baseball scene was supposed to show how Chicken Little thought being popular and accepted would bring him closure, when really the only true acceptance he needed was from his father.
***** Eh, when it comes to movies, there are very few things I actually dislike. Heck, of all the films I've seen, there's only one that I've actually disliked. The Fantastic Four reboot.
+LIVE H4XOR not really. just because both of these movies include animals who act as though they were humans doesn't mean on is a re-make of the other. the story is completely different, though the message I can see is somewhat the same(don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do /be because of who you are / what you are) I guess I don't know. but I really enjoyed this movie when I was smaller and I'd like to see it more developed today . I dunno its just my opinion.
+Tiniesbit101 Does a CG Smurfs film for Disney count? i mean, the design on Smurfs will be similar to the live-action movies, but less realistic. the Peyo style should stay in hand-drawn. for a better story, i try not to spoil everyone, but here we go. a story about a young human prince who got shrunk in a size of a three apple high by an evil and powerful wizard, which was released by Gargamel and now he got amnesia, so with the help of smurfs, they try to get the prince's memory back and recover his throne. the prince is Smurfette's love interest.
Or better yet maybe they could use the original idea mark dindal wanted to use in the first place where the title character was a nervous girl who had a overactive imagination and goes to summer camp to ease herself and her relationship with her father, she makes a few friends but soon finds out the counsellors are literally wolves in sheep’s clothing and has to save the camp. That sounded nice but it wasn’t good enough for Michael Eisner so they changed it
Another good part about this movie was at the beginning when they showed the clip of Indiana Jones. What’s actually funny about it is that this film was released in 2005, seven years before Disney bought Lucasfilm, so basically they had to pay for a failed joke.
Yeah,this movie tries to be Shrek,but it just fails in the wrong reason with the mean-spiritedness and unlikable characters(including Buck Cluck and Foxy Loxy).
I remember I had the book version of this, and I actually copied it word for word for a paper I had to write. And this was when I was in 2nd/3rd grade, and I'm about to graduate in less than a week. Hard to believe time flies so quickly.
When I was little, they used to show this and the incredibles at my doctor's office. It got really boring and I asked my gram,"When am I getting my shots?"
I agree with you all the way. Screw this movie so hard (no offense to anyone who likes this film). I consider it Disney's attempt to copy Dreamworks Animation's formula of using pop culture references (since at the time, DA was Disney's biggest rival), and it has bad characters, especially Buck. Thank you for giving this film the AniMat's Seal of Garbage.
"For every second that it has, it tries to throw in as much visual gags, slapstick, and pop-culture references as possible." I think I'm having Hoodwinked 2 flashbacks...
I'm not gonna lie this is #4 on my list of worst movies that I've ever seen-right behind the live-action Cat in the Hat, Elf Bowling: The Movie, and The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie (yeah..the latter two I saw ironically, after Mr. Enter said that he was planning to review them). Animat pretty much hit the nail on the head with this movie's problems: the animation really shows that it comes from people who lack experience (a large part of that having to do with many professional animators leaving the company and most of the work being in the hands of more ameturish ones), there's barley has a plot, hardly any jokes are funny, Buck Cluck is one of the most horrible asshole fathers in fictional media, and the characters are just too nasty to Ckicken Little-without giving us any real legitimate reason! Even with him winning the baseball game, you just get a bad feeling thinking about the implications of how they would have treated him if he didn't win the game! Even in the Simpsons episode where Bart is nearly driven to suicide by the rest of the town, that episode at least had the courtesy to have Marge call the townspeople out on their behavior, which is something essential that this movie forgot to do! Thank God things got better for Disney after John Lasseter became the cheif executive and upped the company standards. They managed to get back on the right track with Meet the Robinsons, which, despite several structural problems, has much more heart and a better sense of morality to it than Chicken Little. BTW, I look forward to see the Sword in the Stone review.
What I think actually allowed Disney be as great today was them firing Michael Eisner as CEO. He is pretty much the reason Disney was in a dark age at the early 2000s, he forced many mandates, made executives make all of the creative decisions, forced the film makers and animators to change things, generally having a big ego, and nearly burn bridges with Pixar. Things got better after he got fired and Bob Iger took his place who has done the opposite of Eisner and allowed the film makers and animators to do their own thing, allowing John to run the animation division in the first place, and finally bringing Disney and Pixar back together.
I remember how much this was hyped up in the mid-00s, when I was little. Even then, I used to watch the adverts and think it looked bad. I've never seen it, but when I first saw the advert for it, I was having difficulty working out where the story was.
I atucally enjoyed this movie when I was young, I watched this over and over, but after I watched it again when I was 15, I could now see why this was considered as Disney's worst.
This was a year after the money loss that was Home On The Range, the mid 2000's were basically a time when Disney were pretty much acting like butts with trying to focus on teen bopper trash like High School Musical and focusing less on animation
***** Yeah, the 2000s were (for the most part) not a good time to be Disney. I haven't seen such a bad era for Disney since the late 60's/most of the 1970s (after Walt Disney died) and most of the 1980s (though both eras did have some enjoyable films and the Disney Renaissance ended up saving Disney in general).
The Media Monitor Yep, apparently Atlantis, Treasure Planet and Brother Bear all didn't make their budget back at the US box office even though some of those films got good reviews. We had some gems like Meet The Robinsons but for the most part, the teen bopper crap did hurt a lot of Disney's image.
skymation123 well, first of all I really love the Ice Age characters, so I really am just excited to see them again. Secondly, I think the idea of Geotopia is really interesting. Also, I'm excited that Buck's coming back. Not to mention that the visuals look absolutely excellent, and the overall quality looks like it's really increased since the fourth film.
+Marleena Ulry Yeah. It is the Sword in the Stone and I've that movie. It's near perfect. If Wart's voice was more consistent, I would've call this movie flawless. So call it a 9.9 out of 10.
+Catty Mintgum So true. This was one of the first animated films I saw as a kid, along with Robots and Cars. Thought it was great back then. But now, oh boy!
Wow Jedi Just a Platform game where you play as a Tiny chicken who uses a Yo-Yo to destroy killer Robot Chickens, It's actually on Steam if you wanna give it a go.
Story Time: So imagine this. I was a 5th grader and it was near the end of the school year. My school librarian decided to bring all the fifth graders into the library to watch a movie. I was kinda in a grumpy mood because there were about 250 5th graders in a single room. Granted it was a a really big library but still we were shoulder to shoulder. Originally we were going to watch a Box Car Kids movie but the librarian said that it was really boring and decided to watch Chicken Little. When I heard those 2 words I almost died a little inside. Half of the room whined for a couple of seconds. After the movie I was sitting with my friends at lunch and they were completely fine when I was still stunned at how horrible it was. I did see it a couple of times before but it still surprises me how bad this movie is.
I'm actually glad this movie succeeded in the Box office. According to Disney, if this film bombed it would have meant the PERMANENT END to Walt Disney animation studios and all animation done by Pixar. In short if this failed, we wouldn't have Tangled, Frozen, Princess and the Frog or Zootopia.
Actually, by that point Pixar was planning to leave Disney, since at the time they only had a contract with Disney and not directly owned by them. Owner Steven Jobs absolutely hated then Disney CEO Michael Eisner and after the contract was up he would cut all ties with Disney and Eisner was following suit. It was until Eisner was fired, and was replaced by Bob Iger and he rebuild relationships with Pixar (it helped that Steve and Igers wife's were once college roommates) and eventually buyout Pixar.
+Wolfram Bloomer Just, familiarize yourself with "Steampunk" or similar genres first: It's the technology of the future meets the designs of the past, a reimagining of what tomorrow might have been like.
I heard that this movie was technically trying to imitate the same concept Shrek had, with parodying the fairy tale genre and incorporating many pop culture references. There's many other movies that try to be like Shrek, Hoodwinked, Happily N'ever After, all of the movies by the "Unstable Fables" company. I remembered seeing Chicken Little, and I loved it. Then as the years went by, I started to hate it. The funny thing is, the reason why I started hating it was not because I realized how much of a douche-bag Buck Cluck was, or the story, but because I just got tired of it for watching it too much. I know😂. If you're looking for a better fairy tale parody movie that isn't Shrek, go watch Hoodwinked. It came out the same year and is MILES more better than Chicken Little, because at least it has a story and characters who aren't complete jerks.
You perfectly got why this movie fails on so many levels. I would have given it a lower score, but hey, to each his own. I look forward to your thoughts on Sword in the Stone, an imperfect classic that's a million times better than anything Chicken Little gave us.
I freakin loved this movie... But...even I'll admit that the flaws are more obvious when you're older. Still, this will always have a special place in my heart.
I think disney had a good excuse for the animation. Not only because its there first CGI movie but also because disney had to work with what they had. Plus there use of CGI has grown over the years
I dunno, I still kinda see why I liked this as a kid. It's easier to look past bad graphics when you're young, but of course millions of other problems. I still agree with my first sentence.
So you haven't seen Meet the Robinsons and Bolt, after Chicken Little, you said that you'll never want to watch any other Non-Pixar, CGI Disney film, until Tangled
Bolt was 1 of the few Disney film gems of the 2000's considering by the mid point of that decade, they were practically giving Mickey's friends the cold shoulder in favor of teeny bopper trash. Thankfully the 2010's seem to be getting them back on track with them giving animation a bigger focus
***** yes, because of budget cut due to failure of Meet the Robinsons and Bolt at the box office, Disney cuts Jetix and replace Toon Disney with Disney XD
I remember this film was in cimemas for quite some time for a movie in my area. In Poland it came out in November (on Polish National Independence Day btw), but went to see this during winter break in February.
What really makes this worse is another film with a more interesting premise was cancelled in favor of Chicken Little. It would have been a mix of CG and 2D animation.
This is the only "bad" movie that you've reviewed that i've watched before (multiple times when I was like 8 or 9) and…LIKE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL I LOVED THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. I can see how logistically it's not a film with great Disney quality, but I somewhat have a soft spot for it because of the way it made me crack up every time i watched it. And despite the bad story layout, you kind of have to admit that at least the writing was decent and not dumbed down in any way.
+Geets R In my opinion this film is criminally wronged and underestimated. It is a film that makes a great social criticism, has super funny characters , and a dysfunctional relationship father and son very touching . Talks about bullying , social exclusion and shows how people can be cold even with a child who was trying to help . I think the great soundtrack , has several good references to science fiction films like " Mars Attacks ," " Signs ," "War of the Worlds" and many others. And as for history to be " bad" , I think it works very well for one parodies of film and nonsense comedy.
This is crazy. The first cgi movie from Disney, compared to their newest one Zootopia, and you can see JUST how much have grown
+Begnsteal Yup. -_-
+Begnsteal And how animation has learned to not try and be shrek.
If only action franchises could learn not to be like the Avengers.
+Begnsteal Bet they asked help from Pixar.
+Jose Barrozo More like the head of Pixar (John Lasseter) has been a producer for a lot Disney's latest films. (Which explains why Disney has been doing great lately!)
+yotsubafanfan and me wanted to pitch a my own take on The Smurfs for Disney to John Lasseter
6 year old: That was a great movie! I want to watch it again!
12 year old: Umm ok? This isn't as good as i remembered it but it is still ok?
23 year old: This is garbage!
My thoughts exactly except for the last one
Unfortunately, this was my favorite film when I was little
me too
+Dragon skater7 I had exactly the same experience Except I knew it was garbage by 16 and moved on to Star Wars and iron man.
I actually watch it as a kid and was like good movie! cause i din't understand what the characters were talking about I only know that a kid or a chicken isn't liked because he acted like an idiot since he said the sky was falling and I thought that was dumb as a kid and he gets popular by saving the town by aliens and gets the girl
And we had the dvd! it's was probably my brother's movie that mom gave him as a kid, and she din't watch it with him and we never really watched it, I was watching other movies that I really liked at the time and when I thought of watching it I thought about rewatching another movie first and when that's the movie left, I would beg her to buy me a new movies to watch
It's really too bad that Treasure Planet, and Brother Bear didn't do so well. I rewatched them, and I think they are great!
+Cassius Jin Actually Brother Bear was a financial success, but wasn't a big hit with critics, whereas Treasure Planet was the opposite.
***** Fair enough. And the reason why Home on the Range failed, or at least one of the reasons, nobody goes to the movies in April.
+Cassius Jin Treasure planet is still one of my favorite movies and I'm 16!
Terastas I see.
+Terastas oh
That moment when you realize that a movie you used to like as a kid isn't as good as you remember.
EXACTLY how I feel
That's LITERALLY how I feel.
Yup
Same!😭
That's what I hate about growing up.
It happened. It actually happened. Animat is actually reviewing Chicken Little.
+Crystal The sky really IS falling! XDDD
Chicken Little is basically the movie equivalent of a season 8/9 episode of Spongebob. Not the worst thing ever, but definitely not that good, and the tone of everything holds it back.
'One little slip' is litterally best part of the movie
Or the only good thing in the movie.
jayblade2000, true buddy and some of the soundtrack of this movie are the saving grace.
Mostly because it sums up exactly what the movie is: one little slip
The thing about Chicken Little that really angers me actually isn't the quality of the final product. It's the quality of the final product compared to what it had started out as. If you watch the deleted scenes and behind the scenes featurettes of the film, you can see they started with something that had so much potential. Originally, Chicken Little was to be portrayed as a neurotic girl who panics over nothing like a noise that she thought was a monster of the night turning out to be her father getting a midnight snack. Also, there is another deleted scene that actually portrayed Buck as a somewhat loving, yet incompetant, father by attempting to make breakfast for his son and shooing away the paparazzi because they are embarrassing his son and there was a Russel Crowe joke that, I admit, made me smile a bit. Seeing those scenes really made me hate the movie even more and it even made me angry at Disney for a while. It could've been a Disney classic instead of the shit it is.
oh my god i remember seeing that!
WhiteWolfSnowy
On the one hand: *GOLD!* (Snow White, Pinnochio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, The Jungle Book, Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Emperor's New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, Enchanted Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Frozen, Big hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Mary Poppins, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Pirates of the Carribbean, Saving Mr. Banks, The Nippers, the recent Star Wars films)
On the other hand: *PAINFUL AGONIZING FAILURE!* (The Black Cauldron, Super Mario Bros. Inspector Gadget movie, Mr. Magoo movie, Bedtime Stories, The Haunted Mansion, 90% of the Disney Sequels by DisneyToon Studios, Home on the Range, Chicken Little, Planes, The Lome Ranger, Alice in Wonderland, etc.)
Well then. Should I excuse your :?"/#$ language?
Because of this movie, I thank my parents every day for having to see this dumpster fire and not abandoning me in the theaters. Love you, Mom and Dad.
At least the baseball thing came in handy in Kingdom Hearts 2.
Lmao
The only time Chicken Little is ever useful is being a summon.
I liked Genie more though, especially with the KH1 powers.
Gola245 If the attack is fox repel-ant, then it's RACIST!
Maybe they could use a taser to stop or Stopraga the enemies.
I'm seriously shocked that you didn't do a full rant on Buck. Every other person I've seen who've reviewed Chicken Little would often rant and yell out loud on how despicable and unlikeable he is. Oh well, nothing can be done.
+Omnicidal Clown Yeah. :P
I guess he didn't want to be an Enter clone :P
I think that should be it’s own video
I remember back in the mid 2000s, the merchandise always depicted Buck Cluck with a snarl on his face. Watching it in theatres at the age of 4, I honestly thought he was the villain of the movie up until…aliens.
I know right? It's like they were planning to make him the villain originally, but Disney thought that they shouldn't have a direct family member of the main character as the villain, so they attempted to get out of the ditch they were digging by putting in an alien invasion.
+Benjamin O'Connor He might as well have been the villain. He's a huge douche and is one of the most horrible characters in any movie ever.
+Benjamin O'Connor Yeah, that's my impression.
+Kate x Yeah, that makes sense. Good theory. Though, personally, I don't know why they rejected that, when in one of their movies, a family member WAS a villain. (In lion king, where Scar was Simba's uncle).
Funny you mention that, from what I've read Elsa from Frozen was going to be a straight up Villain as her snow queen role, but after writing the song "let it go" the writers didn't feel like she should have to be villian so they changed her to be good and added in Hans.
Still better than Norm Of The North...
Agreed
Trust me anything is better than Norm of the North
Even Twilight is better than Norm of the North.
Maybe not Foodfight.
Nicklas Zande AMCW TDP est. 2001 Foodfight is not a movie; it's a failed experiment from someone's demented imagination.
Treasure Planet and Brother Bear deserves so much more love!
Brother Bear was the second movie I saw in theatres
I love TREASURE PLANET
+Jackie Jones, Chicken Little too, more than Brother Bear
+Jackie Jones Agreed!!
Atlantis, The Treasure Planet and Chicken Little are my three underrated Disney films. Atlantis had excelent action sequens, great story and characters. The Treasure Planet had good action sequens, excelent main characters, criativity idea with Steam Punk style. And Chicken Little is hated by everyone, but in my opinion is very funnie, had good comentarys and social critic, a nice message about bullying and why we shouldn´t make fun of the peoples, and even a message for negligent fathers....
The baseball scene was funny and was included because it was Chicken Little trying to solve everything by recreating his dad's life, but it shows just copying someone and doing what they do does not solve your own unique problems.
By the way, it's really sad that this was from the same guy who directed The Emperor's New Groove.
+Rob Bob and later he moved to Sony Pictures Animation
personally, i wish mark dindal could driect more disney films that are better than this embarrassment.
+Rob Bob Why ???? Chicken Little is even more funny! Dont be such a follow like sheep.
He even directed one of my favorite movies EVER! Cats Don't Dance and that it was his directorial debut.
It totally is sad that Mr. Dindal went to directed the amazing Cats Don't Dance and Emperor's New Groove to directed this atrocious. I do feel bad, because Mark did want to keep the original primers.
You've come a long way, Disney. :)
To sum it up, Disney played with a new toy without reading the instructions
That's more like Micheal Eisner doing that and getting into trouble for it.
This wasn't the first cgi film Disney made without the help of Pixar; dinosaur was.
He said it was Disney's first FULLY computer animated film. Dinosaur is not fully computer animated
@@elianlugo411 True, the dinos themselves may have been CGI animated, but the backgrounds were digitally enhanced live action
Dinosaur was made by other disney studio called "the secret lab".
Well, Dinosaur did have the live action environments.
I thought the baseball scene was supposed to show how Chicken Little thought being popular and accepted would bring him closure, when really the only true acceptance he needed was from his father.
But they never learned anything, did they?
Why the hell did I like this movie as a kid? O_o
IKR!?
+Amanda K Maybe because your an average kid.
i agarre
Fermin Mark Pousada You mean "I agree"..
Because the alien assets are pretty cool, probably.
And somehow this birdbrain was one of Sora's summons...
+Dejay Page Tetsuya Namoura (the game's director) added chicken little to KH2 as a way to advertise this movie to the Japanese public
I always used Stitch. He was a much better summon anyway
This is one of a small group of movies that are my personal guilty pleasures.
+funcoolfunfun Tru dat
Same
***** Eh, when it comes to movies, there are very few things I actually dislike.
Heck, of all the films I've seen, there's only one that I've actually disliked. The Fantastic Four reboot.
Same, and just asking, what other films are your guilty pleasures
Michael Porter Elf Bowling the Movie
The Live action Cat in the Hat movie
Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
This movie looks as if "Jakers" had ten more Dollars added to its animation budget.
Rajab Butt Jakers has better designs
I'm surprised you remember that show!
@@Dannohasho So do I.
The Jackers ram even reminds me of Mr. Woolensworth!
honestly, I'm kinda curious if they could re-animate the film today with a better story and more developed characters.
and better animation since they work with Pixar now*
+LIVE H4XOR not really. just because both of these movies include animals who act as though they were humans doesn't mean on is a re-make of the other. the story is completely different, though the message I can see is somewhat the same(don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do /be because of who you are / what you are) I guess I don't know. but I really enjoyed this movie when I was smaller and I'd like to see it more developed today . I dunno its just my opinion.
+Tiniesbit101 Does a CG Smurfs film for Disney count? i mean, the design on Smurfs will be similar to the live-action movies, but less realistic. the Peyo style should stay in hand-drawn. for a better story, i try not to spoil everyone, but here we go. a story about a young human prince who got shrunk in a size of a three apple high by an evil and powerful wizard, which was released by Gargamel and now he got amnesia, so with the help of smurfs, they try to get the prince's memory back and recover his throne. the prince is Smurfette's love interest.
+Tiniesbit101 They could’ve done that if thee voice actor of Buck didn’t pass away
Or better yet maybe they could use the original idea mark dindal wanted to use in the first place where the title character was a nervous girl who had a overactive imagination and goes to summer camp to ease herself and her relationship with her father, she makes a few friends but soon finds out the counsellors are literally wolves in sheep’s clothing and has to save the camp. That sounded nice but it wasn’t good enough for Michael Eisner so they changed it
I still like this movie but I hate the mean spirited in this movie.
After watching Zootopia, I'm very disappointed in myself that I used to think that this movie was amazing.
+Sylvia Smith Same here
+JONATHAN PINZON Agreed, too bad this movie will always exist though. At least it's a permanent reminder that not everything Disney makes us perfect.
Indeed.
+JONATHAN PINZON It has some very tough competition at times though. I'm sure Disney can handle themselves.
Indeed they can.
This film gets worse as you get older, while films like Incredibles and Coco get better as you get older.
Exactly. When I was 7, I was bored with Incredibles and loved Chicken Little. Now I'm almost 15 and love Incredibles and hate Chicken Little.
Another good part about this movie was at the beginning when they showed the clip of Indiana Jones. What’s actually funny about it is that this film was released in 2005, seven years before Disney bought Lucasfilm, so basically they had to pay for a failed joke.
This film is the epitome of everything that can go wrong with a post-Shrek CGI film.
Wally Hill this movie is basically Shrek done worse. This and Shrek were subverting fairytales
Yeah,this movie tries to be Shrek,but it just fails in the wrong reason with the mean-spiritedness and unlikable characters(including Buck Cluck and Foxy Loxy).
Heh, I found The Jimmy Neutron Movie much better than this! Lol
Still waiting for Animat to review my favorite movie of ALL TIME.
Simp
Aaron AHernandez that’s not really the right way to use that word
@@JFtheLOLZOR his username
Come to think of it,not only does this movie feel like they ripped off Shrek,but also Jimmy Neutron as well.
I was hoping you'd mention the Chicken Little short. I love that short film!
I remember I had the book version of this, and I actually copied it word for word for a paper I had to write. And this was when I was in 2nd/3rd grade, and I'm about to graduate in less than a week. Hard to believe time flies so quickly.
And this is why we are so grateful for Zootopia today. I'm serious, that movie had everything this movie should have.
@Jared Walker No...
When I was little, they used to show this and the incredibles at my doctor's office. It got really boring and I asked my gram,"When am I getting my shots?"
Robert Kessler I would just turn on my phone if I ever see a film that makes A Wrinkle In Time look like Dunkirk in the doctor’s office
The coach’s line, “Chicken Little, you better have a good explanation for this!” must be his own summary of the whole movie and it’s reputation
8 year old: Must watch
9 year old: MUST SKIP
11 year old: why am I here
15 year old: i feel a bit of nostalgia but still same as 11 year old
I agree with you all the way. Screw this movie so hard (no offense to anyone who likes this film). I consider it Disney's attempt to copy Dreamworks Animation's formula of using pop culture references (since at the time, DA was Disney's biggest rival), and it has bad characters, especially Buck. Thank you for giving this film the AniMat's Seal of Garbage.
this is zootopia done horribly wrong
Jansen P12 I love chicken little and zootipa
9:57
Ugly ducklings face is the face Animat made when watching this movie.
storks did a great job of doing cartoonish style animation as for chicken little, it only showed it can look bad instead of doing it right.
"For every second that it has, it tries to throw in as much visual gags, slapstick, and pop-culture references as possible."
I think I'm having Hoodwinked 2 flashbacks...
I'm getting Doogal flashbacks
Interesting fact: This movie was directed by the same guy that directed Cats Don't Dance and The Emperor's New Groove
This movie is the disney equivalent of a middle aged man gagging on a Dorito in order to look hip and cool in front of his kids
This movie predicted iPads
I thought another better CG-animated Disney movie in the mid-2000's predicted iPads...
Ah. The worst Disney movie ever.
Agreed.
+aXis That's not in their main animation canon
+WeirdoTZero Chicken Little or The Sword in the Stone?
"Cough" *Song of The South* "Cough"
Home on the Range
I'm not gonna lie this is #4 on my list of worst movies that I've ever seen-right behind the live-action Cat in the Hat, Elf Bowling: The Movie, and The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie (yeah..the latter two I saw ironically, after Mr. Enter said that he was planning to review them).
Animat pretty much hit the nail on the head with this movie's problems: the animation really shows that it comes from people who lack experience (a large part of that having to do with many professional animators leaving the company and most of the work being in the hands of more ameturish ones), there's barley has a plot, hardly any jokes are funny, Buck Cluck is one of the most horrible asshole fathers in fictional media, and the characters are just too nasty to Ckicken Little-without giving us any real legitimate reason! Even with him winning the baseball game, you just get a bad feeling thinking about the implications of how they would have treated him if he didn't win the game! Even in the Simpsons episode where Bart is nearly driven to suicide by the rest of the town, that episode at least had the courtesy to have Marge call the townspeople out on their behavior, which is something essential that this movie forgot to do!
Thank God things got better for Disney after John Lasseter became the cheif executive and upped the company standards. They managed to get back on the right track with Meet the Robinsons, which, despite several structural problems, has much more heart and a better sense of morality to it than Chicken Little.
BTW, I look forward to see the Sword in the Stone review.
Buck Cluck: I am the worst parent in an animated film.
Gene's parents: Hold my beer
Who's gene?
@@jeremiahphillips3294 The Emoji Movie? like Chicken Little, but worse?
Animat: this is Disney’s first time to play with their new toys
Dinosaur: Hold My Beer
Dinosaur has real life backgrounds while all the characters are cgi.
I remember enjoying this as a kid now after rewatching it I realize it was just one big acid trip but Fish out of Water is a classic and I love him
What’s crazy is that there was a movie called “My Peoples” was scrapped in favor of this movie.
What I think actually allowed Disney be as great today was them firing Michael Eisner as CEO. He is pretty much the reason Disney was in a dark age at the early 2000s, he forced many mandates, made executives make all of the creative decisions, forced the film makers and animators to change things, generally having a big ego, and nearly burn bridges with Pixar. Things got better after he got fired and Bob Iger took his place who has done the opposite of Eisner and allowed the film makers and animators to do their own thing, allowing John to run the animation division in the first place, and finally bringing Disney and Pixar back together.
It's hard not to see that Bob Iger was a very easy last minute replacement when Chicken Little literally got Michael Eisner fired from his position.
I remember how much this was hyped up in the mid-00s, when I was little. Even then, I used to watch the adverts and think it looked bad. I've never seen it, but when I first saw the advert for it, I was having difficulty working out where the story was.
Next is Sword in the Stone
Also, I enjoyed Chicken Little, but can totally understand why people didn't like it.
You're still crossing a line though.
I atucally enjoyed this movie when I was young, I watched this over and over, but after I watched it again when I was 15, I could now see why this was considered as Disney's worst.
I actually really like this movie, but it's probably just because I remember watching it when I was younger.
Am I the only one who sees the shot of Chicken Little's butt at the end of the review as a metaphor of Disney making an ass out of themselves?
+The Media Monitor XD
Aurora Kishel Lol.
This was a year after the money loss that was Home On The Range, the mid 2000's were basically a time when Disney were pretty much acting like butts with trying to focus on teen bopper trash like High School Musical and focusing less on animation
***** Yeah, the 2000s were (for the most part) not a good time to be Disney. I haven't seen such a bad era for Disney since the late 60's/most of the 1970s (after Walt Disney died) and most of the 1980s (though both eras did have some enjoyable films and the Disney Renaissance ended up saving Disney in general).
The Media Monitor Yep, apparently Atlantis, Treasure Planet and Brother Bear all didn't make their budget back at the US box office even though some of those films got good reviews. We had some gems like Meet The Robinsons but for the most part, the teen bopper crap did hurt a lot of Disney's image.
If Screen Junkies did an honest trailer for this film they should call it "Bad Zootopia"
What are the things you are excited about ice age collision course?
skymation123 why?
I'm just curious.
skymation123 ok.
skymation123 well, first of all I really love the Ice Age characters, so I really am just excited to see them again. Secondly, I think the idea of Geotopia is really interesting. Also, I'm excited that Buck's coming back. Not to mention that the visuals look absolutely excellent, and the overall quality looks like it's really increased since the fourth film.
My inner Hipster is calling and he says "I Love This Movie And I Don't Care What They Say"...
I'm trying to figure out what the next movie is.... is it "The Sword in the Stone"? (I'm just basing this off the music in the background.)
yes it is...
Really, I was thinking Home On The Range. Sword In The Stone works too.
+Marleena Ulry Yeah. It is the Sword in the Stone and I've that movie. It's near perfect. If Wart's voice was more consistent, I would've call this movie flawless. So call it a 9.9 out of 10.
Yea! I was right! Man, I haven't seen it in a long time. But I do remember have positive feelings about it though...
The score was way too nice this deserves a 3/10 at most
This was the Shit when I was little, Now it's just Shit when you look back at it. But the Video Game is still cool on PC.
+Catty Mintgum i played that game all the time when i was a kid maybe i should replay it
+Catty Mintgum So true. This was one of the first animated films I saw as a kid, along with Robots and Cars. Thought it was great back then. But now, oh boy!
Wow Jedi Just a Platform game where you play as a Tiny chicken who uses a Yo-Yo to destroy killer Robot Chickens, It's actually on Steam if you wanna give it a go.
+Catty Mintgum *shudders* Toy Chicken Little flashbacks.
true
7:27 if you look closely and turn down the playback, you see that the sheep teacher just sort of pops into frame out of nowhere
I think Zootopia is an apology to this movie.
Story Time:
So imagine this. I was a 5th grader and it was near the end of the school year. My school librarian decided to bring all the fifth graders into the library to watch a movie. I was kinda in a grumpy mood because there were about 250 5th graders in a single room. Granted it was a a really big library but still we were shoulder to shoulder. Originally we were going to watch a Box Car Kids movie but the librarian said that it was really boring and decided to watch Chicken Little. When I heard those 2 words I almost died a little inside. Half of the room whined for a couple of seconds. After the movie I was sitting with my friends at lunch and they were completely fine when I was still stunned at how horrible it was. I did see it a couple of times before but it still surprises me how bad this movie is.
*I honestly liked this movie when I was younger*
same
For Disney, this film truly was one little slip
I'm actually glad this movie succeeded in the Box office. According to Disney, if this film bombed it would have meant the PERMANENT END to Walt Disney animation studios and all animation done by Pixar. In short if this failed, we wouldn't have Tangled, Frozen, Princess and the Frog or Zootopia.
Actually I have to correct myself, Pixar would still be around, but they would be the ONLY studio partnered by Disney to do animation
Actually, by that point Pixar was planning to leave Disney, since at the time they only had a contract with Disney and not directly owned by them. Owner Steven Jobs absolutely hated then Disney CEO Michael Eisner and after the contract was up he would cut all ties with Disney and Eisner was following suit. It was until Eisner was fired, and was replaced by Bob Iger and he rebuild relationships with Pixar (it helped that Steve and Igers wife's were once college roommates) and eventually buyout Pixar.
Despite the low quality in story, Chicken Little saved Disney's butt lol.
No pun intended :P.
That seal sound effect makes me jump every time
I think that treasure planet was really good and deserves more attention. Give it a look if you can.
+Wolfram Bloomer Just, familiarize yourself with "Steampunk" or similar genres first: It's the technology of the future meets the designs of the past, a reimagining of what tomorrow might have been like.
My husband still hates that Chicken Little is a summon in Kingdom Hearts 2, and I can't blame him... This movie is awful :P
@Jared Walker it's ehh, I only got a few chuckles and one laugh but that's about it
I heard that this movie was technically trying to imitate the same concept Shrek had, with parodying the fairy tale genre and incorporating many pop culture references. There's many other movies that try to be like Shrek, Hoodwinked, Happily N'ever After, all of the movies by the "Unstable Fables" company.
I remembered seeing Chicken Little, and I loved it. Then as the years went by, I started to hate it. The funny thing is, the reason why I started hating it was not because I realized how much of a douche-bag Buck Cluck was, or the story, but because I just got tired of it for watching it too much. I know😂.
If you're looking for a better fairy tale parody movie that isn't Shrek, go watch Hoodwinked. It came out the same year and is MILES more better than Chicken Little, because at least it has a story and characters who aren't complete jerks.
''Don't believe everything you read Brother''
You perfectly got why this movie fails on so many levels. I would have given it a lower score, but hey, to each his own. I look forward to your thoughts on Sword in the Stone, an imperfect classic that's a million times better than anything Chicken Little gave us.
I freakin loved this movie...
But...even I'll admit that the flaws are more obvious when you're older. Still, this will always have a special place in my heart.
Well, you're still crossing a line a bit.
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine
Same, This movie was my shit was I was a kid, I admit it kinda sucks now but hey the nostalgia is too strong with this for me man.
I think disney had a good excuse for the animation. Not only because its there first CGI movie but also because disney had to work with what they had. Plus there use of CGI has grown over the years
I find it weird how the chicken managed to get in Kingdom Hearts 2.
1943 Chicken Little: WHERE'S MY ANIMAT SEAL OF APPROVAL!?
Still better than Home on the Range
I dunno, I still kinda see why I liked this as a kid. It's easier to look past bad graphics when you're young, but of course millions of other problems. I still agree with my first sentence.
I HATE THIS MOVIE WITH PASSION!
So you haven't seen Meet the Robinsons and Bolt, after Chicken Little, you said that you'll never want to watch any other Non-Pixar, CGI Disney film, until Tangled
Bolt was 1 of the few Disney film gems of the 2000's considering by the mid point of that decade, they were practically giving Mickey's friends the cold shoulder in favor of teeny bopper trash. Thankfully the 2010's seem to be getting them back on track with them giving animation a bigger focus
***** yes, because of budget cut due to failure of Meet the Robinsons and Bolt at the box office, Disney cuts Jetix and replace Toon Disney with Disney XD
I love your pfp
6:04 here’s some crazy fact. Instead of asking pixar to help them, they asked industrial light and magic to help them with the 3D animation
Chicken little Rating!
Story: 2/10.
Animation: 5/10.
Characters: 3/10.
Overall: 3/10.
Mys scores:
Story: 10/10
Animation: 9/10
Characters: 10/10
Songs: 8/10
Total: 9/10
Adriano El Crakc Please stop
I remember this film was in cimemas for quite some time for a movie in my area.
In Poland it came out in November (on Polish National Independence Day btw), but went to see this during winter break in February.
I also saw this in theatres when I was born in 2 February 2006 and I was still in theatres and it was my first theater experience. Even robots.
A 6/10 for the animation? I think it deserves a 4/10. It looks cheep and amateurish like alpha and omega
Well, it WAS Disney's First CG animation
And looks better then EWW Foodfight!
Actually, the animation deserves a 1/10. It makes The Brothers Grunt’s animation look like the animation in Toy Story 3.
NAH THIS IS A LOT WORSE!!!!!
The guy who sings "One little slip" plays Butch Flowers from Red vs Blue by Rooster Teeth
What really makes this worse is another film with a more interesting premise was cancelled in favor of Chicken Little. It would have been a mix of CG and 2D animation.
Now, 2022, comparing their first 3d release to their newest, Encanto, what a journey
Sweet, Sword in the Stone! I like trying to figure out if scenes were recorded before or after the kid went through puberty.
I don’t remember this shot from the movie? 8:56
This review was released on Friday the 13th-bad luck day
You just exposed my worst memory from my childhood, good job bro!😂
Best Disney Movie: The Lion King (1994)
Worst Disney Movie: Chicken Little (2005)
Aw yeahhhhhh!
My favorite movie.
For 4 years.
Story: 8/10
Animation: 10/10
Characters: 9/10
Score: 9/10 (Great)
Now I know how PhantomStrider feels about this film.
Me too.
This is the only "bad" movie that you've reviewed that i've watched before (multiple times when I was like 8 or 9) and…LIKE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FEEL I LOVED THIS MOVIE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. I can see how logistically it's not a film with great Disney quality, but I somewhat have a soft spot for it because of the way it made me crack up every time i watched it. And despite the bad story layout, you kind of have to admit that at least the writing was decent and not dumbed down in any way.
+Geets R In my opinion this film is criminally wronged and underestimated. It is a film that makes a great social criticism, has super funny characters , and a dysfunctional relationship father and son very touching . Talks about bullying , social exclusion and shows how people can be cold even with a child who was trying to help . I think the great soundtrack , has several good references to science fiction films like " Mars Attacks ," " Signs ," "War of the Worlds" and many others. And as for history to be " bad" , I think it works very well for one parodies of film and nonsense comedy.
@@mahsk8boy You're pretty __________ heartless for that.
A guilty pleasure, perhaps?
For me, this was the biggest step back for Disney.
4/10 is too nice for this animated trash.
Mermaid Song This deserves a rating like this:
Story: 1/10
Animation: 1/10
Characters: -1,000/10
Rating: 1/10 (Worse than Foodfight)
Sir Isaac the Great yeah, no
Not worse than Foodfight, that would be just too unfair. Even to Foodfight. I bet that movie doesn't even want to be better than anything
Me as a toddler: love it
Me as a kid: netural about it
Me as a teenager (now): dislike it