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heres the first look at Disneys 2005 CGI animated film Chicken Little


really excited bout this one

I like the character design generally.
It just appeals to me for some reason.

Does anyone know if this is going to be 2D or 3D?

Loomis wrote:I like the character design generally.
It just appeals to me for some reason.

Does anyone know if this is going to be 2D or 3D?

She looks a little like a female Egghead from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons (usually shown as Miss Prissy's son).

It is being directed by the director of TENG - and is supposed to have a similar off-the-wall sense of humour.

I guess this will be 3D - there doesn't seem much point in Disney moving over to 2D CGI productions.

Hmm, never heard of this..?
Is there any storyline out yet?

I found the storyline at Animated-movies.com:

In a universe completely populated with talking animals, Chicken Little's wildly active imagination and tendency to overreact have made her an outsider at home and in her community. When she nearly destroys the town in the great "sky is falling down" debacle, an angry mob forces Chicken Little to shape up. She heads off to Camp Yes-U-Can where she meets other animals with challenges of their own. But when Chicken Little discovers that the camp counselors have a dastardly plan, she will have to overcome her history of paranoia and summon her newfound courage in order to thwart the evildoers…

Chicken Little was originally a boy, but they changed it to a girl because they thought this would pull in more viewers... it's seems disney is going the little girl route more and more...
most of their original series on the chanel apeal to preteen girls, Lizzie, Raven, ect... Their biggest franchise is the Princess collection, it seems they are only shrinking their viewing demographic more and more... Soon not only will it be "uncool" to the majority society for older people to like disney, but soon it will be uncool if you are a boy who likes it...

Now this is an exagerated senario, but things do seem to be going in that direction.... sure their was Treasure Planet and Atantis, but how many other disney productions have been geared towards boys, how many new shows on the disney channel? ....maybe I'm just missing something

Prince Phillip, i agree with you but i think that that uncoolness has already arrived. I am only 20 and already i am being made fun of for loving animation in general, even by other females my age! I think that animation is not only a form of entertainment but also art. Most people in this society are in for the entertainment value and could care less about art. I think that is unfortunate.
In regards to the little boy vs. little girl theme in Disney look at it this way... Dreamworks has made mostly male oriented films right? Sinbad, Spirit, Antz, Road to El Dorado, Prince of Eqypt, Shrek, etc. Unfortuatly (or fortunatly depending on your feelings for dreamworks), they have the same uncoolness as Disney does.
I have 6 younger siblings and 3 of them are boys. I remember cartoons in general being cool until about age 9 or 10. After that, they move on to "bigger and better" things...I know that there are some males in all age groups who love animation, and i applaud them. But for some reason, my brothers never cared for anything unless it included violence and/or car racing. I know not all little boys are into these things but pretty much every one i know is. Society pushes "manly" things such as Cars, Sports and violence onto the boys b/c anything otherwise would be "sissy". I hate that but i won't start in on it....
Anyway Unless Disney can find a way to appeal to these boy social ideals, a girls' theme will work the best. Its sad because i LOVED treasure planet and Atlantis.
I personally don't care what audience the movie is directed to. If its made by Disney and its animated, i'll always give it a chance. But maybe i'm a rariety (other than the people on this board )...

I'm not sure that having the chicken as a girl will attract more girls. I'm almost certain that having the chicken as a cute fluffy yellow boy would not attract any more boys to the film, so why not have the chicken as a girl?

Brother Bear seems to be an almost all male cast, and we don't really know enough about Chicken Little to comment - but my guess is that Penn Jillette's villain will steal the movie

The biggest problem with the switch is that they were already some way through the production of the film when the change was made.

Oh well, it's CGI - change the model and maybe most of the existing animation can be run with minimal changes, instead of having to re-animate the whole lot by hand. Perhaps this is why the studios insist CGI is cheaper; what they really mean is it's cheaper to correct our mistakes.

I have to say I'm not really looking forward to this one, I think the "My Peoples" (or whatever its going to be called) movie has a better feel about. Thats the Disney film from 2005 I'm looking forward too.

2099net wrote: She looks a little like a female Egghead from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons (usually shown as Miss Prissy's son).

It is being directed by the director of TENG - and is supposed to have a similar off-the-wall sense of humour.

I guess this will be 3D - there doesn't seem much point in Disney moving over to 2D CGI productions.

D'oh! Didn't read the "next CGI production" bit...
Ok, dumb question (possibly dumb question-asking person)...

I loved TENG, so if it is the same vein as that, I'm sure it'll be right up my humour alley (which is a dark and mysterious place).

I think Chicken Little looks like one of the Disney Sing Along Song singing chicks

[quote="MickeyMouseboy"]I think Chicken Little looks like one of the Disney Sing Along Song singing chicks [/quote]

YES!!!!! I agree!!!!!

I agree too, she does look like a sing-along bird...

However, I think that it will be a great movie, especially since it's from the people who did TENG! Oh, I agree with Cinderelly, that "uncoolness" has definitly already arrived. If I even mention how much I love any Disney movie, I get a strange look, unless it's POTC, which I haven't seen...

Well, I have to admit that when I first saw the movie in its original release, it didn't exactly felt as a Disney Classic. But now when some years have passed and one can look back at it as a thing of the past, I find it to be a a cozy little film.

It is a product of its time, Disney's first attempt of a CGI feature and appears to be influenced by Shrek (both are computer animated comedies with different fairytale characters meeting for the first time). It was created in the vacuum between Eisner's decision that the studio should abandon handdrawn animation permanently and the fusion with Pixar. I don't know about the other movie produced in this period, Meet the Robinsons, but I don't think Chicken Little could have been made at any other point in time than then. The same goes for many other titles of the past, so at least there are some similarities tying Chicken Little together with its predecessors and most likely its successors.

I saw it for the first time a week or so ago, and I was amazed at how little I cared for it either way. It wasn't good. It wasn't bad. I just didn't care for the movie at all.

Its a sad day when Disney thinks that the only way it can make money in this day and age is make a film that even DreamWorks wouldn't have faith in. Nothing about Chicken Little sparked of that old Disney magic for me.

Rumpelstiltskin wrote:Disney's first attempt of a CGI feature

No,it's not,Dinosaur was first.

Ariel'sprince wrote:

Rumpelstiltskin wrote:Disney's first attempt of a CGI feature

No,it's not,Dinosaur was first.

Well, true ... Dinosaur did make heavy use of CGI characters - but the backgrounds were shot in live-action. Moreover, Dinosaur was not made by Walt Disney Animation Studios (then Walt Disney Feature Animation), but by another division of the company called "The Secret Lab".

In the end, Dinosaur is not considered the Walt Disney Company's truly first ever CG animated film, and it's not part of the canon of the Walt Disney Animated Classics.

I would say thank goodness it is not. I didn't care for it that much. If only there were a way to eliminate Chicken Little out of the official canon...

I loved Chicken Little. It's a clever, humorous movie, and I totolly relate to Chicken Little as a character...a boy trying to fit in. To this day, I display a Chicken Little antenna topper on my car. It's ironic that some of you find Chicken Little to be a misfit of a movie because it's really a great movie about being a misfit and then finding success and about seeking parental approval. I consider it a modern day Disney treasure that I enjoy more than most other recent Disney animated movies (along with the exceptionally great and also underappreciated movie, Brother Bear).