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Chicken Little (2005) is a computer-generated imagery (CGI) animated film and the forty-fifth animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution on November 4, 2005. It was written by Steve Bencich and Ron J. Firedman, and directed by Mark Dindal. The film was animated in-house at WDFA's main headquarters in Burbank, California. Chicken Little is the forty-fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.

This is Disney's first all-CG picture since ceasing production of traditionally animated movies. (Pixar's films were distributed but not animated by Disney, and Dinosaur
was a combination of live action and CG.)

Plot

It is loosely based on the fable Chicken Little, otherwise known as The Sky is Falling. In the small suburban town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little (voiced by Scrubs star Zach Braff) rings the school bell and cries for everyone to "run for your lives!" This sends the whole town into a frenzied panic; eventually they calm down enough to ask him what's wrong, and Chicken Little explains that a piece of the sky had fallen on his head when he was sitting under the big oak tree in the town square. He's unable to find the piece now. His father, Buck Cluck (Garry Marshall), ashamedly assumes that this "piece of sky" was just an acorn that had fallen off the tree and had hit him on the head. Chicken Little becomes the laughing stock of the town.

A year later, Little's only friends are outcasts like himself: Abby Mallard (Joan Cusack), who is called "Ugly Duckling" due to her buck teeth; Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn), who is extremely large despite being the smallest in his family; and Fish out of Water, who wears a helmet full of water and does not speak. All have been mocked and teased by neighborhood bully Foxy Loxy (Amy Sedaris) and her friend Goosey Loosey. In a dodgeball game (the coach makes it "Popular vs Unpopular"), Abby tells Little to talk to his dad, when Little wants his dad to be proud, while Little, Abby and Fish are dodging, Runt is getting hit by every ball then, Abby hands Little magazines but he hands them to Fish, then a very funny King Kong parody comes, (Runt even says "Twas beauty killed the beast") Foxy and Goosey yet bully Little and Friends after.

Chicken Little joins his school's Little League baseball team in an attempt to recover his reputation and his father's pride, and by batting a home run, it appears he's well on his way. But that night back at home, he is hit on the head by a strange hexagonal-shaped object which he recognizes as a piece of the sky. He summons his friends to help figure it out.

When Fish pushes a button on the back of the hexagon, it flies back up into the sky, taking Fish with it. It turns out to be part of the camouflage of an invisible alien spaceship, apparently part of an invading force. It is up to Chicken Little and his friends to save the day.

The invasion is actually a misunderstanding, as two aliens are looking for their lost child (whose name is Kirby) and attack only out of concern. Little realizes he must return the lost alien to save the town. At first he tries to do it covertly but once the aliens attack, he's forced to confront his overprotective father and regain his trust first. The plot of the movie is based on 3 alien films: E.T.
, Signs
, and War of the Worlds
. It is like E.T., because the scene when the lost alien child sees his parents fly off into space mirrors the scene in E.T. when E.T. is left behind by his family. The movie parodies Signs in the scene where Chicken Little, Fish out of water, Abby Mallard, and Runt of the Litter are chased by aliens in a corn maze. The aliens use razors to chop down the corn. A bird's eye view shows that the Aliens make signs just like the ones in the earlier movie. This has no tie-in to the plot. At the end, the invasion is similar to War of the Worlds, as aliens zap civilians with rays. In the invasion, Buck Cluck, now regaining his pride and trust in Little, defends Little from the aliens, first he deflects their ray at a troop then throwing a trash lid at the other two, then bashing them on the top of town hall like it was King Kong. Abby, Runt and Fish also aid Chicken Little in his little quest to return the child to the alien invaders. After the aliens get the kid, the aliens return everything to normal, and the town makes a heavily dramatized film about Chicken Little.

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