Chicken Little (2005)
Directed by Mark Dindal
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.
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Blaming the "outdated" media for their failures, they rebooted their animation department, which then produced the computer animated zany comedy Chicken Little (2005) -- fairly successful, but not in the league of the more successful Pixar and DreamWorks releases.
The first few computer-animated films made under the Disney banner, rather than their subsidiary company Pixar, which had already long since mastered the art, were a clumsy mix of efforts that tried too hard (2005’s Chicken Little) or were just plain weird (2007’s still inexplicable The Wild).
Not since Chicken Little in 2005, the studio's first fully-rendered CG-animated movie, * has any film in the Disney canon been so desperate to mimic another studio's output: in that case it was DreamWorks, in this case Pixar, and the least we can say for Wreck-It Ralph is that's it's by no means the worst Pixar knock-off of the past several years.
Kaytis served as an animator on Frozen (2013), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), and Chicken Little (2005) while Reilly worked as a storyboard artist on Spider-Man 2 (2004) and The Iron Giant (1999).
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Since the merging of Disney and Pixar in 2006, the Disney-branded computer-animated films have gotten better and better, moving far beyond the forced silliness of Chicken Little (2005) as they hit their stride with Tangled (2010), a humorous spin on the Rapunzel fairy tale, and reached a comedic and nostalgic high note last year with Wreck-It Ralph (2012) (the obvious cash-in of this summer’s Planes notwithstanding).