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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.

-J. R. JonesFull Review

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.

-Ben KenigsbergFull Review

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

-Richard RoeperFull Review

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

-Peter HowellFull Review

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.

-Stephen HunterFull Review

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.

-Christopher KellyFull Review

... 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.

-Peter HartlaubFull Review

When Disney can't hit a tried-and-true fairy-tale adaptation out of the park, maybe it's time to give up the ghost and get Pixar back on the phone.

-Roger MooreFull Review

There's such a density of visual puns and pop culture reference points, kids and parents are bound to find themselves smiling in spots. The cumulative effect of the film, however, is exhaustion.

-Lisa RoseFull Review

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

-Lou Lumenick

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.

-Jack MathewsFull Review

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

-Amy BiancolliFull Review

Chicken Little settles for what's expedient and safe and, over all, lives down to its title.

-Liam LaceyFull Review

It's almost as if Disney was so nervous about its big chance at computer animation that it crammed in the cheap jokes and disposable music and wayward side plots to make sure it appealed to everyone.

-Tom Long

The originality and brightness of Chicken Little resides in its characters, whose names may be familiar from children's books, but whose personalities are unique.

-Terry Lawson

The invasion material is acceptably funny.

-Mike ClarkFull Review

Cuteness trumps horror, and Chicken Little suffices as kiddie entertainment in a moment when there's not a whole lot for youngsters to devour.

-Robert Denerstein

More than a loving, clever riff on a fable, Chicken Little is a grade-school primer on the language of movies with a capital M.

-Lisa KennedyFull Review

Chicken Little is shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and dandy vocal performances, but even a small child may sense how forced this movie is.

-Ty BurrFull Review

For a movie that's supposed to launch Disney's official CGI era, Chicken Little doesn't stand tall enough.

-Bill MullerFull Review

Compared to the CG gems from Pixar, Chicken Little is stylistically inconsistent, narratively messy, and, well, just not much fun.

-Steven Rea

While the frenetic pacing might help conceal the movie's flaws, the bizarre twists in the plot are not easily glossed over.

-Jeff StricklerFull Review

Chicken Little, though it has its moments, mostly just feels anxious and overreaching. It tries to be all things to all people and fails to be anything to anyone.

-Carina ChocanoFull Review

The first computer-animated film from Disney also has the distinction of being a terrible movie a hectic, uninspired pastiche of catch phrases and cliches.

-A.O. Scott

The movie did make me smile. It didn't make me laugh, and it didn't involve my emotions, or the higher regions of my intellect, for that matter.

-Roger EbertFull Review

The visuals are irrepressibly witty and so is the script, which morphs from the classic fable into a spoof on War of the Worlds.

-Peter RainerFull Review

In trying to be all things to all popcorn-buyers, Chicken Little comes off as a manic scramble to please everyone.

-Robert K. ElderFull Review

No matter how technically proficient a movie's visual effects, they mean nothing without wit, cunning and soul.

-Gene SeymourFull Review

Chicken Little gets a lot of the small things right. It's the bigger picture that gives it trouble.

-Chris VognarFull Review

Chicken Little has been Disneyfied with a vengeance.

-Eleanor Ringel GillespieFull Review


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