An average movie

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back and since it was available on Disney+, I thought I might as well check it out again. Well, after this rewatch, to be honest, not only this movie turned out to be even more boring that I expected but I didn’t remember that the damned thing was also so ugly. Basically, for many decades, Disney had been pretty much untouchable in the animation genre. However, it has become a total different ball game nowadays. Indeed, the competition is huge and Disney was no longer at the top. They were lucky that they actually owned Pixar otherwise they would have been really in trouble. This movie is a good example about how dreadful the Disney features had become at some point. Seriously, how could you expect us to switch from such memorable characters like Snow White, Peter Pan, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Bambi, Cinderella, Cruella de Vil, Aladdin’s Genie to … Chicken Little?!? Even before the movie started, you already knew it would stink. What a pathetic character… The story was not much better as it was terribly generic, predictable and frankly quite tedious. In my opinion, their biggest mistake was to drop the hand-drawn animation and to do, just like everyone else, some CGI animation. That was a bad move since hand-drawn animation had been their specialty for decades and they should have stick to it. Eventually, since all their last efforts were flops (‘Home on the range’, ‘Brother Bear’, ‘Treasure Planet’, ‘Atlantis’), they decided to switch to CGI and this movie was their first attempt with this technique and, as I mentioned earlier, the end-result looked terrible, especially after so many years passed by. Anyway, to conclude, it is actually pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look, except maybe if you have some very young children to entertain but, even in this case, there are so many better movies to watch with them.

5/10