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| We've just come home from the theater pleasantly surprised by the newest Disney venture! Quite honestly, we weren't sure what to expect or think about this one. The opening to the film kind of symbolically summed up the thoughts that many in the animation field have been thinking: the narrator struggles for ways to open up the story, trying the classic 'Once upon a time' over pixie dust, the sunrise opening to The Lion King, and the familiar 'opening storybook', and subsequently rejects them all, finally deciding on 'it all started when things had taken a turn for the worse'.
 In the usual fashion of their films reflecting what's going on in the studio at the time, this is very likely Disney's tongue-in-cheek response to the misguided decision by management to completely put an end to the 2D medium for their feature films. In a panic over losing their partnership with Pixar, the conclusion is that people don't want to see moving drawings anymore, they want everything CGI. This has been disturbing to many of the 2D purists out there, and no doubt to the animators themselves who are literally being told 'throw out your pencil and learn the computer or you're out of here.' So the buzz on Chicken Little has been a bitter pill for many to swallow. Many are hoping that all of their CG features will bomb, so that Disney will think, 'Hmm, I thought computers were supposed to make better films! Maybe we should go back to 2d....' Of course what nobody is realizing is that two little things called STORY and CHARACTERS are what make a film good, regardless of the tools used.
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 Early in Chicken Little, Walt Disney Pictures’ first attempt at computer-generated animation apart from Pixar, a mother rabbit hears a warning from the title character and turns to flee. She grabs the hand of her infant bunny from the baby buggy, and pulls out an infinite chain of CG-created babies.
That comic scene illustrates the wonders of what can be done with technology. But it also points to a filmmaking approach that is behind Chicken Little and many other films these days. If an audience enjoys something, the false logic concludes, why don’t we repeat it again for them?
And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again...
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Mark Stokes compares
Zathura with Chicken Little
Nothing new under
the computerized sun
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