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You forgot one scene. When chicken little’s dad is protecting him from kirby’s dad, he says “my kid did not take your child, you left him behind...and that’s bad parenting...and I should know” He practically confessed!

Most of the characters in this movie are really hateable because they're cartoonishly awful and yet still seem believable

Yeah that fox girl basically got lobotomized and stripped of her personality so she could become someone's clueless dumb gf. That's honestly a nightmare scenario for me 😬

Compare it with Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, where the father is supportive and clearly cares about his son (even supports him despite the lousy inventions), but he just doesn't know how to talk to him.

"Why are they all bullying a child, they're just stupid." Exactly

It's a movie about childhood trauma and narcissistic abuse. In real life a whole town wouldn't be involved, but to a child it would definitely feel that way.

You know, the life of Chicken Little sounds like the perfect setup for a villain backstory. A child literally being ridiculed and beaten down by everyone around him, and has a worthless father that never supports him. This was more than enough for Chicken Little to harbor hatred for the world. With his new found knowledge of the aliens, he then gets a hunger for retribution by taking advantage of Kirby being lost. As the invasion begins, Chicken Little looks back at all the torment that happened to him in the past, but he doesn't feel any pity for the people, especially his father. Instead, he seethes with pure joy and satisfaction, watching as the world burns. If the writers stuck with that plot, the movie would have been a whole lot better!

"The entire town bullying the shit out of a literal child" reminds me of a certain big headed boy from a show called invader zim

When I first saw chicken little I legitimately cried because I didn't understand why they were being so freaking mean

I bet that Buck changed his last name from Little to Cluck to distance himself from his son and made his son keep the old name

Buck Cluck saying “I’m supportive” without even doing anything hits me more than it should cause it reminds me so much of my dad- saying he’s supportive but not doing anything to really change other than just saying “Look at how supportive I am” You aren’t supporting me Kenneth- youre just excusing your actions with meaningless words at this point

I believe this is one of the earliest modern forms of writers attempting to make their character as sympathetic as possible by making the people around them as comedically cruel as possible. Also, I am glad you pointed out what happened to Foxy, because if you weren't, I was. She was essentially lobotomized. Her fate is pretty horrific. Unironically (much like writers that do this nowadays) they gave the bully a punishment far worse than anything their "sympathetic" character goes through.

I hate to say this but Chicken Little's dad is way too relatable to people who grew up with narcissistic parents, which was not what I think Disney's intension was lol

It’s funny, if you watch the deleted scenes, they actually make Buck look a bit better, he’s cooking breakfast, albeit poorly and tries to defend Chicken Little from the paparazzi and reporters.

Bionic: "This town should go to jail for what they are doing to chicken little" Ad: "EAT TYSON CHICKEN"

So, Chicken Little was actually an inspirational movie about how a young boy battled against his feelings of self worth despite how his town and father treated him and managed to stay true to the truth?

Even as a child I was weirded out by how Loxi ended up. Like she's not even herself anymore and it freaked me out

Watching Chuck be visibly annoyed/irritated and audibly sigh when he starts to speak hurt me cause thats exactly what my narcissistic parents used to do, and still do. I remember how much that used to hurt, and how it always used to make me quiet down immediately; why would anyone speak if they don't want to be heard? I remember how much it hurt my development to be taught my words/thoughts/opinions don't matter or are irritating to listen to. It makes you never want to speak again, it's completely crushing emotionally.

For something supposedly aimed at children, Chicken Little is one of the most cynical and nihilistic films I've ever seen.

Alien: Don't worry we can bring her back the way she was. Runt: No she's perfect!!! Runt and Foxy: Lolipop!! Lolipop!!🎶🎶🎶 Alien: scary. More like creepy.

I remember seeing this movie with my mom and at the end she said she didn’t like it because, “It hits too close to home” as if 10 year old me was supposed to know what that meant.

The really fucked up part about them making a board game, a movie and all the other merchandise directly based on what Chicken Little did, is the fact that they realistically wouldn’t have been able to do that without Chicken Little or his parent/guardian’s permission. So there’s a very good chance that Buck *agreed* to let them make all this merchandise mocking his son and is probably getting royalties from it. He’s straight up benefitting from his son’s fame/infamy, yet he still had the nerve to constantly complain to his son about how embarrassed he is by him.

I wanna know, how many of the people who thought Foxxy getting lobotomized was perfectly fine ended up with a hypnotizing/bimboification fetish

I can't believe I forgot Disney made a movie with mind break on it. Literal mind break like it's seen in those offbrand manga, and the resemblance is uncanny with it involving a strong willed (albeit bitchy) girl having her mind altered into the harmless defenseless victim of some overweight tall guy who seemingly wants to make her his girlfriend. I never thought anything about it when I saw this movie as a child, but as an adult, it's disturbing as fuck, probably the most cursed thing Disney has ever done. I guess I have to at least give the writers some credit for being so innocent if they didn't realized how disturbing those implications were.

The sad thing is that you can kind of tell that he WANTS to be a good father, but he lets his standing with the rest of the community dictate what he should do as a parent as opposed to actually trying to find out what his son is like and what he wants to do in life.

Honestly, the only likable characters who lived in that town, besides Chicken Little, was the girl duck and the fish guy. Other than that, just throw the rest of the town away honestly.

This movie would've taken a much darker turn if the aliens never made themselves known.

Loxie had the equivalent of a lobotomy. Even as a kid that made me very uncomfortable.

I know this wasn't mentioned at all but I just came to the realisation that Paranorman is the better version of Chicken Little

I hate any time Disney tries to be self-aware; it's so cringe-worthy. The one exception in Enchanted, which at least did it in an affectionate way rather than a "gee, didn't our past movies used to be ssssoooo stupid lol" way.

I remember seeing this movie in theaters with my dad and getting mad at CHICKEN LITTLE because I agreed with his dad and the town at first... And then having possibly my first big self-reflection moment at realizing I hated him *because he reminded me of myself.* That sigh his dad gives when he just starts TALKING? Just talking, like anyone does? Story of my life. Don't embarrass me? Bro, that might as well have been my parents' motto! Does one good thing and gets bragged about because he's now EARNED basic parental affection? Dude... I'd always blamed myself, so I also blamed him. Basically, this movie fUCKED up little 9-year-old me. BLEW MY MIND. A journey to self-discovery soundtracked by Barenaked Ladies.

I've noticed that they seem to treat CL's being undersized like a disability, both in and out of universe. In universe, the issue of him being as small as he is seems like it's always being tiptoed around, like "as long as we don't outright make fun of him being a shrimp, we can hold our heads high while still ridiculing him because at least we're not ablest". Buck is a former star athlete of his school days who wanted his son to be a big, burly jock like him, and is openly ashamed of having an imperfect child who apparently can't do sports. Out of universe, it's used in joke after joke until CL needs to be cool, at which point the smallness becomes a plus when he improvises, which feels suspiciously like an autistic child who is a prodigy at the piano or a talented artist as a 'silver lining' to their condition. I might be reading too deep into it, but it's just a thought that makes the town's attitude even worse.

Pig: “What town bullies a child?!?!?!!” ….my home town, honestly. Elementary was so bad I had to move to learn how to make friends. I still remember the principle telling me it was my own fault for being bullied since I was a little heavy. The town hates me because they didn’t like my dad, or thought my mom was a whore (it was a heavily religious community). All of my siblings were treated like dirt….. ….. This movie hits too close to home, man

I get that the dad was supposed to learn a lesson at the end, but they made him so unlikable

i was obsessed with this movie when i was 5 but even with how oblivious i was back then, the way everyone (especially his dad) acted towards chicken little kind of confused me because they were grown adults who were essentially bullying a young kid.

This movie portrays every single cartoon character I ever hated yet I can't be upset at these

“Do something normal, like a normal human” So... who’s gonna tell him?

the dad's stuck in highschool where he was loved and praised ,he couldn't grow up and actually be a good father and fulfill his child's needs , he instead chases approval regardless of the fact that his kid is sad . He's just a selfish toxic parent and I hate him .

Now, Buck have the honor to share his title of worst parent ever with Alma Madrigal, who did the same as him. Making a bunch of grown ass adults a priority over her own kids. And same as Buck, she let the whole Town make her son's life a loving hell. Way to go.

Can you believe the original Chicken Little was a well done, political message about how easy people fall to rumors and get wrapped up in the sinister ways of persuasive leaders, especially during WWII ?

Roosters ARE chickens, guy. If you're thinking that "chicken" means female, that's HEN. Roosters are male chickens.

I've seen this movie probably twenty times, buck cluck does suck.

I’d say the worst part is how he actively makes his own son look insane to others

Buck Cluck reminds me a lot of my own dad lmao. He never ever dared to say one nice thing to me or my sister until we basically detached ourselves from him and always seemed embarrased of out personalities because they didn't fit his expectations. I didn't make the connection between them until like two years ago, my dad is the irl BucK Cluck

Naruto and chicken little would have great group therapy session

Man, I remember this movie being a lot better when I was younger. I’m a victim of nostalgia.

"Buck cluck is the worst dad" Omni man: look what he needs to mimic a fraction of my power

ironic how disney made a post on twitter at father's day saying something like "family is always by your side even when the sky is falling!" and it had a drawing of chicken little and CLuck 💀

kinda depressing that chicken little’s dad reminded me of my parents when i was a kid

On the topic of kid movies, I want to recommend G-Force. It also has some games on PS2, PS3 and I think Wii too.

Buck Cluck is the worst,he's embarrassed by chicken little and tries to bog him down from his interests or anything that could draw attention and lead him to something that doesn't even interest him. And the only time he shows pride or even really care for his son is when he succeeds like at the baseball game when he was literally embarrassed not too long ago at his attempts,then chicken little doesn't want to mess that up and hides literal evidence to prove that he wasn't crazy with the alien hexagon piece one night. The frick,man? That's your child.

When I was a kid I was OBSESSED with Chicken Little. Like, intensely hyper fixated on it for a good several months which felt like forever to a 6 year old. I owned like all the cereal box bobbleheads they made of the characters, a book, and the GBA game. I honestly cannot see why I was so obsessed with it, I think it was just one of those random things I decided was going to be my life for the next 6 months to a year along with Happy Feet and Xiaolin Showdown. I definitely was well aware of how shitty Chicken Little was being treated in the movie and idk maybe that was why I liked it (I was bullied a lot so maybe I related to him???) but rewatching it as an adult, I fully realized how almost unwatchable and cringe inducing it is. I just can't watch the "CL being bullied by the entire town" scenes anymore without wanting to rip my hair and teeth and internal organs out.

Even as a child this movie made me uncomfortable because of the way everybody treated chicken little. I was a 6 years old thinking how sad and how much I would cry if I was in his place

The reason I enjoyed Chicken Little when I was younger, was because I could relate to him. I used to be bullied a lot for being different. I wasn't small, but overweight. I am autistic, so I felt different too.

I feel like CL is a bad allegory of anxiety. Catastrophe. Social parish statuses. Feeling like an outlier. Everything is so outrageous and extreme but in a sense anxiety is like that mentally?

Chicken Little is a story about a Conspiracy Theorist hated by his town but when he's proven right everyone respects him.

Chicken Little is a representation of how I think everyone looks at me when I fuck up

I also never understood why Buck went out of his way to drop off Chicken Little at a bus stop in the beginning of the movie when he could have just as easily drove him directly to the school to avoid all of the nonsense Chicken Little had to go through in the opening. Amazing song aside, Buck was obviously already driving him far enough away from their house, so why couldn't he just drop him off right at the school instead? Was he so ashamed of being seen publicly with his son, that he refused to drop him off a couple extra miles down the road?

If you think it's unrealistic that massive groups of people would bully a little kid, you've never been on the internet when you were a kid. People fucking hate kids. Hell, not even just online, I got stories upon stories about my own childhood.

I will never let my child (if I ever have any lol) watch this film. It’s literally about an entire town bullying one character. The only message I got, even when I first saw this film in theatres, is you’re only worth what others perceive, just to feed their own egos. I especially think the father of the main character is really despicable on how he acts, allowing the whole town to treat his kid like shit while neglecting him, too. He cares more about how’s self image than his own child’s well-being. I mean, I know it’s only a cartoon movie, but this was real life, I wouldn’t let anyone - whether be one person , a group of people or a whole community - push my kid around.

Reminds me of how neurodivergence/mental illness can be seen in society. Behaving outside of 'typical' symptoms gets you labelled as 'crazy' and 'dramatic'. It's really sad.

Man, even as a kid I felt so bad for Chicken Little

Chicken Run > Chicken Little all day, every day, no exceptions

So THATS where my dad went. He drew himself into a chicken and blue-skadoo'ed into this movie.

Chicken Little is like a very bad version of Shrek. Dreamworks was founded by ex-Disney creatives with Shrek basically being an "Anti-Disney" movie. Disney comes around 4 years later trying to recreate the same idea with Chicken Little, and end up making a joke of themselves for acting ironically self-aware. Even the opening title is them just trying to copy-paste the opening sequence of Shrek with the psuedo fairy-tale opener.

The mayor in this movie is actually voiced by a legendary comedy actor named Don Knotts. This was one of the last movies he did before passing away in 2006.

When I was a kid, I was very familiar with the Barenaked Ladies, because my sister introduced me to them. I was super excited to go see this movie when it came out, because she told me their music was in it. I have really fond memories of this movie, because when my whole family went to see it, we were all still living together. Then, we went to get McDonald's afterwards (No, I didn't get chicken nuggets.), and they had the Chicken Little bobbleheads. Side note: Chicken Little is adorable, and I would adopt him in a heartbeat.

Worst animated fathers in history: 1. Omni Man 2. Firelord Ozai 3. Buck Cluck 4. Peter/Brian Griffin

What gets me about the Dad's "redemption" arc in this film is that he goes from being blindly dismissive of his son to blindly supportive. I mean, his kid is literally throwing himself into harm's way, and the father leaps from one extreme of utter neglect to the other. It's like the filmmakers weren't aware that actual attentive parenting is more than just cheering on your kid while he almost kills himself.

Despite how much people dump on this movie, it did strike something of a chord for me as a kid. Belive it or not, people like the protagonist actually exist and this movie is kind of validating for anyone who's experienced that kind of treatment. My Dad wanted a football player and ended up with my asthmatic self instead. I was always told to sit down and shut up in order for him to "save face," attract as little attention as possible, even when I would TRY to participate in sports just to please him anyway just for his disappointment in return. I was always looked at by the people proximal of those situations as kind of a geek and a loser. I knew exactly what it felt like to be this main character. It's almost kind of funny that it gets so much criticism because in a meta way, the film is the "chicken little" of films that gets picked on so much. It gets accused for the town being needlessly cruel and the father being horribly degrading but that's... kind of the point? To me, that's the most realistic thing about this movie. I've lived that experience. And ironically I think the films' strongest strength is that sort of message. That the people we go out of our way to belittle and mistreat often don't deserve it and we should be a little more considerate or supportive. If Bionicpig sees this and is looking for more early to mid 2000s movies to review, I'd like to formally submit my recommendation for Over the Hedge. No other reason than nostalgia.

You just described the entire plot of Dreamtale as well, Side note Dream didn’t neglect his brother the villagers used Dream’s trusting nature against him so they could lure him away before actually hurting Nightmare who was to frightened to tell Dream what was going on when he asked

I’m always down for some Chicken Little ribbing. I was disappointed in this movie even as a kid. That’s a shame, because I really like everyone’s designs. Now, if this somehow gets remade, should they play up the fact that Chicken Little deserves better and ultimately gets away from the dad (maybe the town as well) or should they try to salvage his character, maybe have Buck be more scared or worried for his son instead of embarrassed by him?

The fact Chicken Little was originally going to be a girl makes me a little sad. Like they could've kept the mother dead and make it so that the father is trying to raise a young girl, who's more into "masculine" activities like sports, games etc. But the town puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that people should be put into certain boxes based on how they look, and because of these standards the father feels like it is his fault his daughter is more of a tomboy. And the whole sky is falling thing could be how the town twisted one of Chicken Little's more "masculine" interests, making her the crazy lady of the town. edit: And now that I think about it, they could make the fox a into a parallel of Chicken Little, who has to do more masculine things because of her body type, while wishing to be more feminine. Would make a way better character arc than.... mindwashing her...

Fox gets lobotomised: Pig: YESSS!!!!

I feel like we forgot to mention the on disc special feature deleted scene which we assume happened a few days after the incident. A scene where the show the news camera man focusing on Buck confirming to himself in a depressing tone that Chicken Little is crazy. That scene is followed by the media immediately bombarding their house and when asked about who was going to play who in the movie, Buck was more concerned with how he’s being played by Russel Crow (yes that one) for a brief moment rather than continuing to help his son out of the mail slot that he was using to escape the media.

He has just been so shallow and unsupportive it makes me feel like his son is one "incident" away from Buck treating him like crap again.

Back in my day chicken was the species. Hens were females, and males were roosters. And I feel offended that chicken little wasn't named Henry!

As the Nostalgia Critic once said, “He range a bell, not decapitate a student!”

Dude! Seriously, I appreciate your commentary in this movie. I have seen reviews where people say that they don't like the movie because it's too mean spirited but they never actually went and broke down the bits of the movie that we're so mean spirited. And looking at your comments on the movie it really has made me realize that the way the debt actually movie is just really super normalized for me and that's why I had no idea. And then that helped lead to me having a marriage with a narcissistic abuser.

Damn it sounds like Buck Cluck and Odin could go bowling together or something. Buck Cluck doesn't defend his son from relentless bullying, Odin does the same thing. Now I can't get the image of Chicken Little using the aliens to destroy the town

my mom told me not to 'embarrass' her in front of her work colleagues for wearing a jacket over a t-shirt instead of something more formal to a goddamned vaccination event, same.

Buck Cluck is just the dad from the LongBeachGriffy video “when your son is bad at sports”

In the little mermaid, he was hurt by the death of his wife and while he was strict and harsh, he believed he was doing what was right for his daughters. When he destroyed Ariel’s treasures, he felt regretful immediately after and he had a reason to not trust humans which gives an understandable reason why he didn’t want Ariel to learn about them. In the end, he realizes his mistakes and supports her. He isn’t oblivious to his mistakes and actions. A lot of Disney parents are like Buck but the difference is that they think they are helping their child due to their past traumas. Buck only cares about his reputation. Moana’s father lost his friend in the sea so it’s understandable why’d he’d keep her away. Simba lost his father because of Scar, no duh he’d keep Kiara away from Kovu.

12:10 I just wanna say, that (possibly metal) piece fell from the sky and ONTO his head. It didn’t kill him or cause any major injuries to his skull whatsoever, it just knocked him out.

"it is literally a movie about everyone in the entire town bullying this literal child" Welcome to early youtube !

Hey bionic I just wanted to throw this out there and tell you that a rooster is just a adult male chicken and the same goes for hen which is a adult female chicken.

you know how some people feel like movies like the bee movie are fever dreams because they're so ridiculous in plot/characters/etc? chicken little feels like the sleep paralysis you have in the middle of a nightmare where it feels like everyone in your community is laughing at you

This movie is so f’d up that the original that had rumors flying to discredit a respected figure over something most likely sexual and ending with everyone, but that respected figure being led into the fox’s den and getting eaten is the less f’d up of the two. I don’t know how you can make a movie of a body count of 0 more f’d up than one of a body could of 99% of the characters, but, hey, Disney did it.

This reminds me of the episode from the Simpsons where Bart is bullied relentlessly from Springfield after choking a baseball game

Chicken Little: The sky is falling Dog: This is fine

I love how he stood in front of the green screen for the ad and then didn't even use it

In the deleted concepts for the movie, the dad was actually more loving and stands up for his son. Idk why Disney thought what they released was better than that

This movie to me is the biggest guilty pleasure for me. Like I know it’s a horrible movie but I have so much nostalgia for it that I can’t hate it

Imagine if someone remade the movie to be more of a drama, where Chicken Little was so severely bullied that he committed suicide at a very young age. And the movie would be centered around his friends, trying to confront the town and Little's father about.the trauma that they've placed onto him. And Buck Cluck would feel the worst of all for not standing for his son and supporting him when he needed him most.

Yeeeeah. You know you've fucked up _badly_ when your animated parent starts making the likes of Judge Claude Frollo and Lady Tremaine look likeable and relatable by comparison.

its funny how they call ugly duckling ugly when every single character is nightmare fuel on a bun

Gaslighting: The Movie

Roosters are chickens. Hens are also chickens. It's like a Doe and Buck situation

Remember that one episode of the Simpsons where the whole spring filled bullied and hated bart for losing a fucking baseball game This sounds familiar