Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

El-Dod Awful animation , Awful story , Awful comedy , Awful direction and Awful movie

invisibleunicornninja I recall having to watch this movie once when I was younger. It was put on for me to watch because its a cartoon and that's what kids like, right? The animation is so bad that I was genuinely scared. The story is so poorly told and the characters were so dumb I had no idea what was going on. This is a terrible movie. Don't watch it.

Sherrill777 The Bad:Although I'd rank The Black Cauldron lower (for such dark, scary scenes), this one ranks way down there at the absolute bottom of Disney's barrel. However, rather than scary, this one gets its poor ranking due to sheer petty meanness of the characters. It seems like everyone is cruel to Chicken Little – including his dad! They mock him or sneer at him and as a parent I just felt sick every time this child's dad acted as if he were ashamed of his son. I realize the story creators were probably trying to convey the idea that Chicken Little is simply misunderstood and he and his dad have communication issues, nothing more, but it didn't come across that way to me. The rest of the town felt like a bunch of cruel yet gullible sheep. I mean everyone jeers at Chicken Little, then cheers as he preforms well for them, then jeers, then cheers. Except for the boy's few fellow outcasts who stick with him, everyone else follows the crowd in regards to what they think of our hero and it comes across with a message of "have perfect performance and you will get love and positive attention". Not a great message. The comedy also fell flat for me, failing to generate any laughs.The Good:The animation was okay. Not great, but I didn't find it horrible. The idea behind what the "falling sky" really was is actually pretty cute and clever. Yeah, not much else strikes me as all that good.The Mom view: I hate movies (or books) where the main character is treated with unjustified cruelty by others – especially when it is for an extended time. I don't think that this movie models good behavior or healthy relationships. I don't want my kids to see bullying (especially by adults) as acceptable behavior, even if there is eventual 'justice' (and may I just say that the female getting her mind 'adjusted' in the end is more horrific than anything she ever did!). I won't let my kids see this movie – Yuck!

sol- Having earlier embarrassed himself by erroneously claiming that the sky is falling, a young chicken finds himself at odds with what to do upon discovering a planned alien attack in this undeniably imaginative if underwhelming take on the classic story. While the aliens and much of their gadgetry seems lifted from 'War of the Worlds', there is a lot of interest to this part of the film with cloaking devices, deadly weapons and one surefire intriguing spacecraft. Half the film elapses though before the title character discovers the aliens and the first half is frankly a mess. There are at least three or four loud songs and montages to pad out the running time and Chicken Little's three best friends are hard characters to warm to. One is fat, the other is ugly and the third speaks gibberish, and the film goes out of its way to make jokes at the expense of each character's signature condition (including short stature with Chicken Little himself). The film does have some heart though with a strained relationship between Chicken Little and his father that is tested and tried throughout the course of the film. In fact, had the film concentrated more on the title character's desire to make his father proud and less on crude jokes (particularly regarding weight and ugliness), the first half of the movie might have had considerable value. As it is, 'Chicken Little' at least ends on a high note with a more impressive second half, including some great animated special effects and a deliciously exaggerated film within the film at the very end, but it does feel somewhat like too little too late.