Chicken Little

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By Todd Karella
November 4, 2005

Rated G

Original Story Synopsis:

Movie-Pix Best Guess:

Everybody knows the story of Chicken Little who thought the sky was falling.

What nobody knows is what happened after that.

Trying to make up for his previous mistake, Chicken Little does his best to make everyone proud of him

Just as he has finally gets back into good graces with his friends, he is suddenly hit on the head.

This time the sky is falling, but considering his past he doesn't know what to do.

Sure it's a G Rated film, but the previews are hilarious.

Most adults won't be eager to see this, but it looks like a fun night out with the family.

And with Don Knotts as Turkey Lurkey, why wouldn't it be fun?

Best Guess Results:

Not nearly the fun and care free movie that was hoped for.

Instead it's just an average film with odd references and little to keep the adults entertained.

panel from a flying saucer. Looking for fish, they climb aboard the ship only to find themselves under attack by killer robots.
   Once they escape they try to warn the townspeople who just won’t believe another outrageous story. Even his father doesn’t believe the tale.
   This could have been the end, but one of the aliens followed them off the ship. When the alien’s parents return with an armada that begins vaporizing everyone in town they finally realize the truth.
   It’s now up to Chicken Little and his friends to save the day and return the young alien.
   There are some cute parts in the film, but the animation looks odd and the story doesn’t flow well. Children may like the story more, but there are not a lot of laughs for the adults.
   By the time the story becomes interesting it’s almost over. The best part of the film comes at the end when they show the new version of the Chicken Little film that was made about his life as opposed to the one they had planned to make when he was considered a loser.

~The sky really is falling~

In order for Disney to have more negotiation power in their meetings with Pixar, who has been their partner through numerous successful animated films, they are counting on their own studios to produce a hit with this film. Unfortunately, it is far from the blockbuster that they needed.
Everyone knows the story about Chicken Little (Zach Braff) who thought the sky was falling after being struck on the head by a falling

acorn. What people don’t know is what happened afterwards
Chicken Little became the laughing stock of the town. The kids made fun of him, the adults shunned him and even his own father, Buck Cluck (Garry Marshall), lost faith in his son.
The only real friends he had left were Abby Mallard (Joan Cusack), Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn) and Fish out of Water (Dan Molina). As time went on the teasing continued, but worse than that was the

disappointment he could see in his father’s eyes.
The only way he could think of making his father proud was to do something heroic, something that would make the world forget about the acorn incident.
Since his father had been the star baseball player in school, the plan was to join the team and win a game. Unfortunately, what Chicken Little did all season was sit on the bench.

But as fate would have it, and the writers would write it, he got the opportunity to play in the championship game.
Down by a run, with a man on base and two outs he finally got his chance at the plate. The coach tells him not to swing since he has a miniscule strike zone and their best hitter was on deck.
Knowing this is his only chance to be a hero; Chicken Little swings away and ends up with an in-the-park homerun, albeit with a lot of errors, to win the game.

But before he can become comfortable with the hero moniker, something drops out of the sky hitting him on the head.
At first he is shocked and plans to keep the incident a secret, but having learned from his previous experience he keeps the object that struck him. The object is a stop sign shaped piece of metal that has the ability to camouflage itself to blend in with its surroundings.
After showing it to his friends, they discover that it is actually a

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