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Speaking of which, has anyone picked up the preview disc yet? Is it anygood?

I haven't been by a Woolworths yet, but I may finally pick up Kronk's New Groove to get this.

2099net wrote:It looks like this is for the Free Chicken Little Preview disc being given out with any Disney DVD purchase from Woolworths in the UK, not the actual film DVD.

Remember, the film hasn't even hit our cinemas yet!

Oh, okay. Never mind, then. Well, I don't live in the UK, so I'd never heard anything about the "preview disc."

ichabod wrote:Speaking of which, has anyone picked up the preview disc yet? Is it anygood?

I haven't been by a Woolworths yet, but I may finally pick up Kronk's New Groove to get this.

I'll be getting one on Saturday. I'm sure there's one of their £5.99 titles I can pick up!

A bit off-topic (it really belongs in International) but here's the cover of the Woolworths Chicken Little Bonus Disc





Wahoo! So I will have a 2 disc Chicken Little set, with all the trailers and TV spots included. Yay!

Hi
I own the site www.madonnadownload.com but love disney so i uploaded all the dvd screenshots from the dvd i just got which i must say doesn't have much in it - can't wait for a 2 dvd set!!!

check out the link here -
http://madonnadownload.com/forum/viewto ... ?p=289#289

On the main menu of Chicken Little you can highlight this space(see pic below)


And a fully animated clip shows Foxy Laxy talking bad about CL after the movie about him telling "the sky is falling" was not made. very funny. keep and eye for that...


The funniest part if you ask me was not in the movie and can be found at the deleted scenes section (see pics below) when they try to cook while watching a tv cooking show and the guy says "now add an egg" - very funny i wish they would have included it in the movie.





another deleteed scene was an alternate opening just with the book,showing CL growing up..



They even have an opening where CL was a GIRL!?!

Didn't see the movie but couldn't they have come up with some better cover art? It's a rip-off of the Men in Black II cover art.

Mushu2083 wrote:Didn't see the movie but couldn't they have come up with some better cover art? It's a rip-off of the Men in Black II cover art.

Yes. Its what we call "a joke".

A joke (lame parody) for cover art is the most cheap thing Disney had ever come up with! That the shows the poor artistic degree of that unfunny movie. Anyway I won't buy it...

guess they keep another cover for the special edition in shops around Christmas!

KinOO wrote:A joke (lame parody) for cover art is the most cheap thing Disney had ever come up with! That the shows the poor artistic degree of that unfunny movie. Anyway I won't buy it...

Not it Isn't!

Although [gasp!] I've not seen the film, it seems to illustrate the concept and feel of the film much more than endless floating heads ever will.

Besides, its one of the original poster arts (more or less) Don't people always WANT original poster art?

If you didn't see the movie, i don't see how you can argue on how the cover art illustrate it better than anyting else. But yeah you'll always find excuses to Disney craps.

A cover art in this style:


would have been a million times better, and is speak as a person who actually SAW the movie (even if it was disapointing)

A million times better?

I don't think so. The cover above isn't really any different from most other cover arts, and doesn't have an identity of its own. The MIB spoof cover may be borrowing an identity, but it is making it its own at the same time.

And from what I've heard and read about the film, its full of specific and looser genre parodies, so a cover illustrating this does seem to match the feel of the film to me.

2099net wrote:A million times better?

I don't think so. The cover above isn't really any different from most other cover arts, and doesn't have an identity of its own. The MIB spoof cover may be borrowing an identity, but it is making it its own at the same time.

And from what I've heard and read about the film, its full of specific and looser genre parodies, so a cover illustrating this does seem to match the feel of the film to me.

That's what i'm saying, always an excuse even if it is the lamest thing that Disney ever came up with! your comment is complete nonsense (borrowing an identity but making its own???)

There's nothing odd about borrowing an idea and stamping your own identity on it. It happens all the time.

Groups and Singers do cover versions of existing songs, and while the basic melody and lyrics are the same, some manage to undeniably reshape them to match their own style and identities.

Check out this list for example:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jh ... ixtop.html

On a similar track, other artists sample existing riffs and tunes, and work them into their own music, such as Madonna with ABBA in her "Hung Up".

Finally, great artists too copy other works, but put their own identity into the finished work, such as Roy Lichtenstein, the bulk of his work being loose (and sometimes not so loose) reproductions of existing comic book panels.
http://www.postershop.com/Lichtenstein-Roy-p.html

As for popular culture - such as MIB and Chicken Little- taking just Star Wars as an example, there's

Star Wars Mr Potato Heads (obviously Star Wars, but still unmistakably Mr Potato Head)
Star Wars Lego (the same, but with Lego)
The Clone Wars Animated Series (it's Star Wars, but undeniably filled with Genndy Tartakovsky's stylings).

All are quickly off the top of my head, and exactly what I mean with the Chicken Little cover.

Well if you like it!
But a cover that does NOT feature one of the MAIN character of the movie (but you can't know it you haven't seen it) aka Abby can not be a good cover art. Well surely Eric Goldberg was right when he told in a frnehc interview that the US audience doesn't have as much artistic taste as europeans'.

KinOO wrote:Well if you like it!
But a cover that does NOT feature one of the MAIN character of the movie (but you can't know it you haven't seen it) aka Abby can not be a good cover art. Well surely Eric Goldberg was right when he told in a frnehc interview that the US audience doesn't have as much artistic taste as europeans'.

Now you're talking nonsense. So cover art has to include all the major characters? Characters have to have priority over others? That's why so many covers end up with the "giant floating head" syndrome in the first place.

And then you bring artistic taste into it. Most artistic covers have one or even no chracters on them. (Or as in Disney's case, the 2 disc The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe).

Where's Nemo on the Finding Nemo cover? Or Marion or Little John on the Robin Hood cover? Or Frollo on the Hunchback of Notre Dame cover etc. And boy, this French Lion King Cover must really suck, it doesn't even feature Timon or Pumbaa.

Look at the Incredibles cover - now there's a cover thrown together semi-randomly with the condition of cramming as many people in as possible, and forget about the composition. But of course, you like the film the Incredibles, so I guess Disney/Pixar can do no wrong what-so-ever.

Look, I'm not saying the Chicken Little cover is a work of fine art we must all worship, but Disney chose to go the parody route and, I my opinion, have done a good parody which hasn't just been thrown together with little or no thought. And when I saw it (admittedly in it's poster format) it did make me laugh.

And I'm not American.

Well, at first I hated the cover art, but it's growing on me. A little. I guess it seems odd because Disney is making the cover-art a parody of a movie that isn't even their own. It would be like re-releasing Dinosaur and making the cover a parody of Jurassic Park (except instead of a skeletal T-Rex in the background, you have a skeletal Carnotaur in its place).

I'm sure they could have thought up something better.

What bugs me about the Men in Black cover art (eventhough I'm okay with it) is that it shows zero of Chicken Little's personality, wich of all things in this mediocre movie, I liked the most. Zach Braff gave him such personality and you can't see it on the cover because he has his legs crossed in this men in black spoof (wich is cool) but SO out of character.

IGN.com has their review of Chicken Little posted.

Link: http://dvd.ign.com/articles/695/695113p1.html

DVDFile.com has posted their review of Chicken Little.

Link: http://www.dvdfile.com/index.php?option ... 1&Itemid=3