kiddie movie
Chicken Little is a movie for children. Young children. Young children with no judgement. Damn shame.
I want a good animation movie. Something that will be both smart and funny, but the theaters are flooded with kiddie crap pretending to be animation for adults. The animators do their part - they put in subtle references and things that will only speak to the adults, but the writers probably fell asleep because it looks like a duplicated sticky Disney movie I've seen a thousand times.
Short recap - Chicken Little is a... well... a little chicken, son of a big rooster, in a small town of animals. It starts when Chicken Little rings the alarm because "the skies are falling", and of course no one believes him, but what hurts C.L. the most is that his father doesn't believe (in) him. So C.L. tries to make his dad proud by joining the baseball team, where he later wins the big game, but the joy doesn't last long, when C.L. and his friends discover that an alien incursion is imminent. Blah blah blah -- C.L. talks to his dad and he tells him that he will always love him. The End. (more or less)
There is one funny joke in the movie. One. Mr. Woolensworth (a lamb, or a male sheep.. whatever) is teaching the class "Mutton Class":
Mr. Woolensworth: Class, turn to page 62 and translate each word in Mutton. He.
Class: Bahh
M.W.: She
Class: Bahh
M.W.: They
Class: Bahh
M.W.: We
Class: Bahh
The soundtrack is horrid. it just doesn't fit an animated movie, I don't know how else to put it. Voice acting is generally okay, with very few glitches, and with maybe 2-3 exceptions, there are no big Hollywood stars behind the voices. (Patrick Stewart does Mr. Woolensworth, and that's about a 20 seconds bit).
I think I can sum it all up in one sentence - it wouldn't hurt the movie one bit if they dubbed it to Hebrew, Russian, German, Spanish, French or Swahili.
So the search continues. Heard that the Wallace and Gromit movie is okay but I haven't seen it yet.
I want a good animation movie. Something that will be both smart and funny, but the theaters are flooded with kiddie crap pretending to be animation for adults. The animators do their part - they put in subtle references and things that will only speak to the adults, but the writers probably fell asleep because it looks like a duplicated sticky Disney movie I've seen a thousand times.
Short recap - Chicken Little is a... well... a little chicken, son of a big rooster, in a small town of animals. It starts when Chicken Little rings the alarm because "the skies are falling", and of course no one believes him, but what hurts C.L. the most is that his father doesn't believe (in) him. So C.L. tries to make his dad proud by joining the baseball team, where he later wins the big game, but the joy doesn't last long, when C.L. and his friends discover that an alien incursion is imminent. Blah blah blah -- C.L. talks to his dad and he tells him that he will always love him. The End. (more or less)
There is one funny joke in the movie. One. Mr. Woolensworth (a lamb, or a male sheep.. whatever) is teaching the class "Mutton Class":
Mr. Woolensworth: Class, turn to page 62 and translate each word in Mutton. He.
Class: Bahh
M.W.: She
Class: Bahh
M.W.: They
Class: Bahh
M.W.: We
Class: Bahh
The soundtrack is horrid. it just doesn't fit an animated movie, I don't know how else to put it. Voice acting is generally okay, with very few glitches, and with maybe 2-3 exceptions, there are no big Hollywood stars behind the voices. (Patrick Stewart does Mr. Woolensworth, and that's about a 20 seconds bit).
I think I can sum it all up in one sentence - it wouldn't hurt the movie one bit if they dubbed it to Hebrew, Russian, German, Spanish, French or Swahili.
So the search continues. Heard that the Wallace and Gromit movie is okay but I haven't seen it yet.