Chicken Little

Overview

An old fable gets a high-tech update in this computer-animated comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Chicken Little (voice of Zach Braff) is an earnest young fowl living in the town of Oakley Oaks who one day starts a panic when a falling acorn drops on his head, and he warns everyone that the sky has started to collapse. Chicken Little was wrong, of course, much to the embarrassment of his father, Buck Cluck (voice of Garry Marshall), and now the young chicken is struggling to live down the incident. While his best friends Abby Mallard (voice of Joan Cusack), Runt of the Litter (voice of Steve Zahn), and Fish out of Water stand by him, the school's star athlete Foxy Loxy (voice of Amy Sedaris) never passes up an opportunity to make fun of the diminutive chicken. As a result, Chicken Little tends to keep his more recent discoveries to himself, but what's a bird to do when he uncovers pseudo-scientific evidence that suggests the sky really is starting to fall, in large hexagonal chunks? Chicken Little was directed by Mark Dindal, who previously helmed The Emperor's New Groove for Disney.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/21/2006
UPC:	0786936246803
Original Release:	2005
Rating:	G
Source:	Walt Disney Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:21:00
Sales rank:	2,181

Special Features

Deleted scenes including 3 alternate openings; "Hatching Chicken Little" -- A "Making Of" featurette; "Where's Fish?" trivia game; Karaoke sing along; The Cheetah Girls music video; Barenaked Ladies music video

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Zach Braff	Chicken Little
Garry Marshall	Buck Cluck
Patrick Stewart	Mr. Woolensworth
Joan Cusack	Abby Mallard,Voices
Amy Sedaris	Foxy Loxy
Don Knotts	Mayor Turkey Lurkey
Steve Zahn	Runt of the Litter
Wallace Shawn	Principal Fetchit
Harry Shearer	Dog Announcer
Fred Willard	Melvin, Alien Dad
Catherine O'Hara	Tina, Alien Mom
Adam West	Ace, Hollywood Chicken Little
Patrick Warburton	Alien Cop
Mark Walton	Goosey Loosey
Mark Dindal	Morkubine Porcupine/Coach
Dan Molina	Fish Out of Water
Joe Whyte	Rodriguez/Acorn Mascot/Umpire
Sean Elmore	Kirby, Alien Kid
Evan Dunn	Kirby, Alien Kid
Matthew Josten	Kirby, Alien Kid
Kelly Hoover	Mama Runt
Will Finn	Hollywood Fish
Dara McGarry	Hollywood Abby
Mark Kennedy	Hollywood Runt
Katie Finneran	Goosey Loosey
John Debney	Composer

Technical Credits

Steve Bencich

Ron J. Friedman

Ron Anderson

Mark Dindal	Director
Steve Bencich	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Ron J. Friedman	Screenwriter
Ron Anderson	Screenwriter
Randy Fullmer	Producer
Jen Rudin-Pearson	Casting
Randy Fulmer	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Crazy, they call him: Ever since Chicken Little (endearingly voiced by Zach Braff of Scrubs) caused Katrina-like mayhem in Oakey Oaks by proclaiming that the sky was falling, he has been an outcast, a laughingstock to his classmates, and a disappointment to his father (Garry Marshall), a former baseball hero. But just as he is redeemed by some miraculous heroics of his own on the diamond, hysteria repeats itself when another piece of celestial debris crashes into his room. Chicken Little, Disney's first computer-animated feature, does not exactly lay an egg. It was an Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Film, and technically and artistically, it dazzles as only a Disney product can. But the story is a scrambled mélange of character types, themes, and comic conceits lifted from other films. Jimmy Neutron fans may recognize Carl Wheezer in Runt of the Litter, the pathetic porcine character voiced by Steve Zahn. And the climactic Hollywoodization of Chicken Little's adventure echoes the drive-in finale of Pee-wee's Big Adventure. With the baseball subplot, a seeking-closure-with dad subplot, and even a War of the Worlds alien invasion, Chicken Little is anything but. This disc hatches the usual Disney goodies, including three interesting discarded alternate openings. One is a remnant of the time when the title character was conceived as a girl. Another, narrated by the late Don Knotts (as Mayor Turkey Lurkey), is a charming, traditional 2-D animated recap of the classic Chicken Little fable.