Chicken Little
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: November 4, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
15
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireOlly Richards
There's more here for the under-tens than over-, but it's still charming, amusing and energetic enough to win you over. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
It's often funny but it flails around like a chicken with its head cut off, flapping and squawking and making a spectacle, but never really going anywhere. Read full review
50
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Lives up to its name by serving up a fraction of what audiences are used to getting in this department from PixarPixar and DreamWorks -- little originality, little humor and little ingratiating characterization. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubTasha Robinson
Turning brief fairy tales into sweeping mini-epics has long been Disney's hallmark, but even for a fable, Chicken Little is thin stuff; it's a brief cautionary tale against alarmism, essentially "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" without any of the poetic irony. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
What falls in Chicken Little are hopes. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Chicken Little is a clunky, arbitrarily plotted, over-caffeinated spritz that, despite colorfully visualizing a world of suburbanized animals, shifts from social-outcast comedy to underdog clichés to War of the Worlds mayhem as if the filmmakers were an improv troupe slamming through genre requests. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The studio's fresh corps of CG animators may get up to speed before the current four-picture cycle is completed, but if they don't get better material to work with, the sky will be falling along Dopey Drive. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Takes the story one more crank toward the literal. When the thing hits the bird, it turns out, guess what, it is a piece of the sky, the sky is falling. It's like saying: McCarthy was right! Sheesh, revisionist history: It's everywhere! Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Chicken Little, though it has its moments, mostly just feels anxious and overreaching. It tries to be all things to all people and fails to be anything to anyone. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Chicken Little is relentlessly cute. That's the good news, and those who consider the word cute anathema may want to look for entertainment elsewhere. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Heavy on celebrity voices, pop culture references and rock tunes and low on memorable characters or imagination, Chicken Little is on a par with such mediocre but popular CGI films as "Madagascar" and "Shark Tale." Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Chicken Little is entirely lacking in anything "Disneyesque." Read full review
50
PremiereRyan Devlin
In the film, the cleverness just isn't there. There's still a lot to like about Chicken Little - the animation is top notch, and the characters, if somewhat recycled, still generate the requisite sympathy and chuckles. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverLuke Y. Thompson
If Chicken Little were in 3-D, shown in a theme park as you sit in motion simulators, the lame gags might not be so much of a problem. Read full review
40
Village VoiceBen Kenigsberg
The usual pop-culture jokes, disco tunes, and sarcastic narrator are on hand to prevent atrophy, but 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. Read full review
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