Disaster Little. Review on Chicken Little Movie

As the hero of a story, Chicken Little is the tiny poultry equivalent of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

''Chicken Little,'' the new animated cartoon from Disney, conveniently takes this approach, and even provides an explanation (which is er..rather predictable) :

The Plot:

Earth is being attacked from outer space. Chicken Little claims he was hit on the head by a chunk of blue sky, and the townsfolk think it was only an acorn, because the alien spaceship has this so called power to camouflage in accordance with its surroundings.

The movie takes place in an all-purpose town named Oakley Oaks, where chameleons change color while functioning as traffic signals...this was fun!

Oh..coming back to the plot..Chicken Little thinks the sky is falling and seems to be mistaken. He is ambushed and hounded by the press. There are no skies of mass destruction. He is humiliated by his class mates/neighbours/townfolk and the worst of all his dad doesn't trust him either.

His friends loyally stand by him; they would be the nerds & geeks in a human town: Abby (the Ugly Duckling), Fish Out of Water, who wears a diver's helmet filled not with air but water and is not voiced because he doesn't talk and you couldn't hear him, anyway and Runt of the Litter who is so fat he can hardly see his stomach, let alone his feet.

Will Chicken Little ever be able to hold his head up again? In an attempt to redeem himself and makes his dad proud, he joins the town baseball team (he trips upon this idea coz of his dad who was the champion during his days..), but even though he plays in the big game, this sequence honestly feels as if its stretching..like a rubberband.

Then the heavy duty plot arrives, as the town is attacked by animated versions of the alien creatures does Chicken Little save the day? hey..your guess is as good as mine..here :)

The problem, I think, lies with the story. As a general rule, if a movie is not about baseball or space aliens, and you have to use them, anyway, you should have started with a better premise.

The movie did make me smile. It didn't make me laugh, and it didn't involve my emotions, or the higher regions of my intellect, for that matter. It's a perfectly acceptable feature cartoon for kids up to a certain age, but it doesn't have the universal appeal of some of the best recent animation.