Animation fans will find this worth the wait, though apparently there's no story-generating software that can tap into the dark recesses of a child's psyche as cannily as Uncle Walt once did.

| Nov 16, 2009

Beyond a cheeky, twisty bit of genre-tinkering, there's more here for the under-tens than over-, but it's still charming, amusing and energetic enough to win you over.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Truly there's no sense of calm to the film, which feels as if it's been assembled with the manic energy of a preschooler trying to fit square-shaped plastic toys into circle-shaped holes.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 11, 2006

Line by line, scene by scene, visual gag by visual gag, this picture is disappointing: underpowered and dull, even for kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 11, 2006

Only a singularly subversive sidekick, a Streisand-obsessed porker (Zahn), makes this movie stand out from a host of other mediocre animated kids' flicks.

| Feb 9, 2006

Alas, no amount of pop-culture in-jokes and cutesy characters can conceal the fact there isn't enough story to sustain a film even of this limited duration.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2006

The writing, however, lets the whole thing down.

| Jan 17, 2006

Traditional cel animation may be dead, but it'll be remembered fondly. Pop ephemera like Chicken Little is more likely to be smiled at once, then instantly forgotten.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2005

It's an antic journey with the doors locked and no stops permitted, sadly characteristic of the aggressively didactic, falsely whimsical nature of Disney's modern age.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

What I do know are movies, and in the case of Chicken Little, while no masterpiece, I can safely say it does not lay an egg. I'm sure that's got to count for something.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 6, 2005

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.

Full Review | Nov 8, 2005

I don't care if it's 2-D, 3-D, CGI or hand drawn, it all goes back to the story.

Full Review | Nov 7, 2005

This film's procession of dumb clucks and yuks manages to bring the roof down on occasion, if only through sheer manic exertion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2005

It's an odd up-and-down storyline, and it's told with too many shortcuts: pop songs used in place of dialogue and emotion, pop references used in place of jokes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2005

The animators are - - you almost no longer have to say this - - fabulous and full of mischief, weaving enough ironic amusements into the story for the longer of tooth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2005

Chicken Little is much too glib to make us feel what its characters are experiencing; the filmmakers would much rather explode their animated sets and vaporize their talking creatures.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2005

... as cluttered as the movie gets before the ending, it's funny throughout, with some 1970s and '80s music thrown in to keep adults happy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 4, 2005

There's scarcely enough story here for a half-hour 온라인카지노추천 cartoon.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2005

While it is colorful and jaunty and filled with benign barnyard creatures, the occasional jokes and pop references aimed for designated guardians in the audience are more insulting than entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 4, 2005

The movie (directed by Mark Dindal, The Emperor's New Groove) swings from sugar buzz to glucose crash a bit too quickly.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 4, 2005