What A Cartoon Movie! - Chicken Little
Added 2024-03-25 04:00:03 +0000 UTCWith other animated studios making them look irrelevant, Disney had no choice but to jump into the world of full CGI at the beginning of the 21st century. And these first shaky steps in a new medium arrived in the form a Chicken Little, a movie that had the responsibility of launching a new era for Disney and serving as an important bargaining chip in their struggle with Pixar. The result? A troubled little production that barely shows the promise of the original pitch thanks to an avalanche of executive notes. This month, listen in as we discuss Chicken Little: a fascinating and historically important film that no one actually likes—and with good cause!
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Hey, are you two ever going to do an episode on Atlantis: The Lost Empire? That is one of my all time favourites.
Kaz Nosu Gref
2024-08-06 17:53:19 +0000 UTCI saw this in cinemas as a little lad, and even at the age of ten called BS on it. I usually saw more films than most kids at my school, in thanks to my Nan, and once it hit DVD, kids were obsessed over it, repeating such "classic" lines as "No!" for months on end, and I was proud to sit back and pretend I had no idea what film these kids seemed to have taken them over. 😅
Kaz Nosu Gref
2024-08-06 17:52:42 +0000 UTCIf you ever want to watch another animated movie from 2005, with awful looking CGI but is actually a great movie, Might I suggest "Hoodwinked" :) A clever forgotten animated movie with a pulp fiction style nonlinear presentation and lots of silly jokes. A lot of fun things you could talk about in a podcast for that movie, it's low budget, it's outsourcing to a Filipino studio, Harvey weinstein, Andy dick, the fact that the movie was redubbed with celebrities late into production. And you can also just get a lot of good comedy off of how bizarre and offputting the film looks despite being really funny and well written (at least in my opinion)
Covey M.
2024-04-14 17:21:36 +0000 UTCThis film came out my senior year of college and I never got around to seeing it until I decided to watch it before the podcast. I had my wife and kids watch it with me, and just like Bob said, my wife thought the film was over after the baseball game! Unfortunately, we still had the majority of the film to sit through. It had its charming moments and it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. My kids, on the other hand, loved it, and have played it non-stop for the past two weeks!
LuvMyNES
2024-04-03 21:19:13 +0000 UTCMy dad has a friend who was an animator for Disney for many years. He worked on Chicken Little and it was such a horrible experience he left Disney after.
Darryl Bowen
2024-04-03 03:50:39 +0000 UTCJiffy Pop is still a thing believe it or not. I live in Portland and I see it at Winco all the time
Andrew Ouellette
2024-03-28 23:43:31 +0000 UTCAt this point we're really just doing it as a bit. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2024-03-28 17:19:26 +0000 UTCYou guys complaining about parents apologizing in movies has made me realize something, it’s not that it’s “a fantasy” so much as it’s like an anti-smoking PSA, the point isn’t to heal those who smoked a hole in their neck, it’s to keep you from smoking a hole in your neck Parents apologizing in movies isn’t for your comfortably retired Boomer parents to imitate it’s for struggling millennials with young kids to see it’s possible to admit when they’re wrong and break the cycle
Tricia
2024-03-28 15:10:41 +0000 UTCAs an Australian I can confirm that the Mark Mitchell star had burned brightly in the 80s, when he was a star of The Comedy Company (in which his breakout character was Con the Fruiterer, a caricature Greek character which seemed broad and racist even by Australian 80s standards), but by this stage I think he was reduced to the odd kids TV show. He’s certainly an unexpected choice for a deliberate localisation: hell, if you wanted someone from an Australian sketch comedy show who had mainstream name recognition, surely by this point Eric Bana would have been your guy? I will also add that when I first heard the story of Chicken Licken in year three or four my best friend and I really ran with with that whole Animal-Laminal naming convention, and were therefore pretty sure that there was nothing funnier in the entire world than Cape Barren Goose Lape Larren Loose. We were right then, dammit, and we’re still right now.
Andrew P Street
2024-03-25 22:19:49 +0000 UTCHearing what could have been for the original version of this movie certainly bums me out, since it sounds loads more entertaining than the final product. I think I had a permanent "Fire Punch face" the entire time I watched Chicken Little. The only scene that felt close to getting a chuckle out of me was the Adam West bit at the very end, but my soul had been thoroughly drained by that point. I still have a ways to go for seeing every Disney animated film in the canon, but for now Chicken Little's at the very bottom of my ranking. It feels like the blueprint for all the Illumination films lol. Re: bird movies for every March — Since you mentioned Happy Feet, I feel obligated to bring up the *other* CG penguin movie of that era, Sony Animation's silly mockumentary Surf's Up. (Doing the virtual reality camera filming technique over a decade before the Lion King remake!)
N Rose
2024-03-25 16:42:45 +0000 UTC
