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Animation fans will find this worth the wait, though apparently there's no story-generating software that can tap into the dark recesses of a child's psyche as cannily as Uncle Walt once did.
By the time the sky really does start 'falling' -- courtesy of an alien invasion -- Chicken Little's frantic efforts to stay farm fresh have started to wear on the nerves.
I don't care if it's 2-D, 3-D, CGI or hand drawn, it all goes back to the story.
This film's procession of dumb clucks and yuks manages to bring the roof down on occasion, if only through sheer manic exertion.
The animators are - - you almost no longer have to say this - - fabulous and full of mischief, weaving enough ironic amusements into the story for the longer of tooth.
Chicken Little is much too glib to make us feel what its characters are experiencing; the filmmakers would much rather explode their animated sets and vaporize their talking creatures.
By a comfortable margin the worst feature to come out of the Disney Studios since they invented the American feature-length cartoon in 1937.
Heavy with the sweat of a studio straining to snatch the kids back by throwing digi-crayons, potty jokes, and disco tunes at the lens
A bland byproduct of too many cooks in the kitchen, with not enough ideas on how to bring their different sub-plots together into a cohesive entertaining film for kids.
Tasteful vocal performances, by a talented cast including Zach Braff, Garry Marshall and Steve Zahn, can't relieve Disney's first inhouse all-computer generated animation movie from its music video trappings and inadequate storyline.
Cute, colorful, and mostly lively. Fun for grade-schoolers and up.
Easy, quick and utterly forgettable.
Decent animation and some humorous moments, but it disappoints because of unappealing characters, a lack of real emotional depth, and too much reliance on contrived feel-good moments.
the cinematic equivalent of a battery-farmed egg: not exactly rotten, but surrounded by dozens of others just like it in appearance, shape and taste.
A friendly, if decidedly featherweight, feature.
It lacks a good, old-fashioned story -- the fourth dimension every 3-D feature needs to be a classic.
Post-Pixar Disney's "Digital 3-D" concept doesn't seem to include any reservations about 2-D character development.
A cute movie that -- with a G rating -- is suitable for even the smallest children.
fiendishly clever and imaginatively realized in candy-sweet colors
Beyond a cheeky, twisty bit of genre-tinkering, there's more here for the under-tens than over-, but it's still charming, amusing and energetic enough to win you over.
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