Number Forty Six: Chicken Little

Chicken Little

2005

No. This did not happen. I cannot believe it. As you probably noticed, this is movie number forty six. Yesterday was number forty four. I messed up. I didn’t check the list. I have a list you know. It is color coded and everything! I should have checked the list. I should have watched Home on the Range instead. But no. I didn’t. AHHH!

You know what; it’s not a big deal. Everyone is allowed to make mistakes right? Right! So I’ll talk about Chicken Little instead. It’s okay. Really! It is. I think. I hate making mistakes.

Chicken Little thinks the sky is falling, just like he traditionally does in most of his stories. In this case it really is. Not that anyone cares. They just consider him crazy, and continue to do so for a year. This makes him realize he must do something to impress everyone, including his father, who doesn’t seem to care about poor little Chicken. What’s a son to do?

Join the baseball team! Duh. Isn’t that every father’s dream? To have his son be in sports? I wouldn’t know, as I am a girl, and my dad knows that I have absolutely zero athletic ability. In case it wasn’t obvious by the name, Chicken is very little. Barely being able to hold a baseball bat, Chicken becomes the team’s benchwarmer.

Until the final big game that is. The other team had been playing quite a rough game, and broke most of the Acorns’, that’s the team name, star players. What is it called when there is only one player left to bat in the game? Because whatever that term is, that is what Chicken was up to do. Fortunately for him, he scores a home run, and the respect of the town.

It would be his luck that on the evening of his celebration, the sky would start falling again. A bizarre octagon enters Chicken’s room. Understandably, Chicken begins to panic. Freaking out even more after he discovers that the octagon has a chameleon like ability to blend in to its surrounding, Chicken quickly calls over his best friends, Runt, Abby, and Fish. Eventually, they discover that the piece was to a spaceship. This discovery further frightens the group. They try to warn the town, but no one believes Chicken Little anymore. He’s cried wolf too many times for them. However, once the aliens start to disintegrate people, the townspeople begin to believe Chicken and they too join in on the panic party.

Everything works out just fine though. Chicken realizes that the aliens are just after their baby, and once they give him back to his parents, they skip off to another planet. Everyone appreciates Chicken, and they probably live happily ever after.

Of course they do. Why can’t Disney ever have everyone live off terribly ever after? I think a good tragedy is just what this canon is missing. Why can’t they remake Othello or something? Well, maybe they shouldn’t. They’d probably give it a happy ending, like Iago and Othello would overcome their problems and become best buddies. The idea of such butchering really makes me want to throw up.

This movie was not good. It was SO predictable. I do not like uncreative plots. They make me not happy. Do they make anyone happy? Maybe five year olds. I am not a five year old. I demand inventive plots! Is that too much to ask? It is? Great. At least I only have five more movies left! Soon I’ll be able to watch grown up movies again! Yippee!

Movie Watching Budd(y)(ies): My family.

Best Song: “Wannabe.” Shut up. I like this song. I can hear your snickering through the computer! Stop it!

Best Part: There was this bull in this movie, and he was the proud owner of a China shop. Heehee.