Still Eggplant

That chicken sure is adorable, isn’t he? It looks just like it’s going to be another great Pixar movie. Wait, Pixar didn’t do this one. But doesn’t Disney distribute Pixar movies because Disney is still behind the curve doing traditional two dimensional, and un-self-referential movies?

Yes and yes. But this time it’s Disney, where animation was practically invented, that has tried to copy the success of Pixar and Dreamworks SKG (who made Shrek).

Unfortunately, Disney still has some learning to do.

The story centers around a little chick who sees a piece of the sky fall. He then gets everyone all worked up about it. But he’s unable to produce any evidence that things are changing. And they all dismiss him. But things really are going cafluey. Chicken Little isn’t able to convince people otherwise. Yep, it’s the classic story updated for the digital age.

It’s amusing. It’s well-drawn. The story is not half-bad. I just went in expecting something a bit more. I wanted Disney to return to its former glory. But that ain’t the case, unfortunately. Oh well. It was definitely an amusement. Just not a masterpiece.