Chicken Little Review
I took Ari to see Chicken Little yesterday and was surprised to see that she sat through the whole thing. Nothing against the movie but 3 year olds have short attention spans. She did ask to leave halfway through but she toughed it out and she told me she did enjoy the movie when it was over.
It was no Pixar movie as far as story but it was good enough for a Saturday afternoon distraction with the kids. Confusingly the story starts off as a father son picture then turns into a Sci-Fi flick halfway through. It's also apparent that the film's creators tried to imitate Shrek by making fun of recent movies, fairy tales, and it's own Disney animated films. Personally I think it's kind of sad that the animation powerhouse that was once Disney is resorting to copying another animation studio's style.
Technically the film breaks no new ground. I was kind of hoping to see some new 3D animation effect, like fur effects in Monsters Inc. or cloth simulations in The Incredibles.
Despite the negative reviews, Chicken Little did an seemingly impressive $40 million at the opening weekend box office but Jim Hill writes an excellent web article that puts this number into context. Apparently Disney wanted this film to do so well that they increased the number of screens it played on in order to get the biggest opening weekend numbers possible. I guess they need as much bargaining power when renegotiating the upcoming Pixar deal therefore Chicken Little needs to do very well.
I'm a big fan of traditional animated films and I was hoping that Disney would reconsider going back to the old art style but $40 million is enough for them to abolish the idea forever. Even the opening Disney castle logo is now in 3D (and looks like it was created in TrueSpace by the way). Oh well I guess that's what the new generation of kids like now.
It was no Pixar movie as far as story but it was good enough for a Saturday afternoon distraction with the kids. Confusingly the story starts off as a father son picture then turns into a Sci-Fi flick halfway through. It's also apparent that the film's creators tried to imitate Shrek by making fun of recent movies, fairy tales, and it's own Disney animated films. Personally I think it's kind of sad that the animation powerhouse that was once Disney is resorting to copying another animation studio's style.
Technically the film breaks no new ground. I was kind of hoping to see some new 3D animation effect, like fur effects in Monsters Inc. or cloth simulations in The Incredibles.
Despite the negative reviews, Chicken Little did an seemingly impressive $40 million at the opening weekend box office but Jim Hill writes an excellent web article that puts this number into context. Apparently Disney wanted this film to do so well that they increased the number of screens it played on in order to get the biggest opening weekend numbers possible. I guess they need as much bargaining power when renegotiating the upcoming Pixar deal therefore Chicken Little needs to do very well.
I'm a big fan of traditional animated films and I was hoping that Disney would reconsider going back to the old art style but $40 million is enough for them to abolish the idea forever. Even the opening Disney castle logo is now in 3D (and looks like it was created in TrueSpace by the way). Oh well I guess that's what the new generation of kids like now.
posted by Marcos at November 13, 2005
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