Chicken Little (2005 film)

Chicken is an American computer- animated feature film from director Mark Dindal from the year 2005. The film is for dinosaur, another self-produced computer-animated film of Walt Disney Pictures. The basic idea is based on the Disney animated short film Chicken Little in the year 1943.

Action

In Oakey Oaks Chicken Little rings one day out of the blue the school bell. With the warning that everyone should run for his life, he puts the whole city in panic. After all have calmed down a bit Chicken Little explains that a hexagonal piece of heaven he had fallen on his head, as he sat under the big oak tree. Ashamed, his father Bruno chicken, the legendary former superstar of the local baseball clubs, his son must make it clear that this is only an acorn has to act and no danger.

A year later, Chicken Little is still ridiculed for the Sky crashes - a - story. But his friends, all of whom are also outsiders, keep him, The chatty duck Susi Schnatter, the voracious domestic pig from Ed Bacon and the curious exchange fish Luigi Forello.

To have finally forget the Acorn shame of the past and to make his father proud, Chicken Little strives to become a star of his baseball team. And actually succeeds in an important game, after two failed attempts a home run. The following night, again a strange object falls from the sky on his head. Not to be immediately displayed again by all as crazy, he confides this time only his friends. As Luigi discovers a hidden button on the object and pressed him, both suddenly fly back into the sky. Follow the astonished friends of the unknown object to Luigi to rid. You must determine that the ominous article is part of an invisible alien spaceship. Looking for Luigi reach the three friends into the interior of the spaceship. There they discover among other things also a strange looking creature that has an orange plush fur and three eyes. They are discovered by robot-like machines and escape from the spaceship. In their flight they ring the school bell tower and thus cause a renewed panic in Oakey Oaks. Once again, the adults come too late and no one sees the spaceship. Chicken Little is frustrated that no one wants to believe his father to him. However, there is yet another problem: No one has noticed that the orange alien is left behind on Earth. How to turn out this Alien is still a child and the aliens in the spaceship believe it has been kidnapped. So they make with a whole fleet back on the road to Oakey Oaks to retrieve the child. This leads to an invasion of numerous space ships and the residents need to realize that Chicken Little has told the truth.

Chicken Little and his friends decide to Aliens in the search for their child to be helpful. Also Juniors father supports his son in this task. In the end everything turns out for the better and learn the residents of Oakey Oaks, that the robots are just a transport system of the aliens. Also turns out that they stop by for some time every once in Oakey Oaks, because they want to stock up on acorns.

The story of Chicken Little is even filmed by Hollywood and the end of the film you can see the friends in how they watch this movie in the cinema. Chicken Little has also fallen in love with Susi Schnatter.

Synchronization

In the German dubbing editor Kai Taschner led dialogue director. It has even been specially prepared an Austrian version, arrived at the partially other speakers used.

Background

The plumage of Chicken Little consists of 250,000 animated feathers.
Not only is the piece of the spaceship that falls on Chicken Little 's head is hexagonal. Hexagons also be found in the welds of the runaway water tank, the pattern on chicken Juniors duvet and wire mesh in front of the kitchen window.
The story was filmed by Walt Disney in 1943 as an animated short film titled Chicken Little, directed by Clyde Geronimi.
Christian Ude, the German voice of the mayor of Oakey Oaks, since 1993 Lord Mayor of Munich. His Austrian counterpart Helmut Zilk was from 1984 to 1994 mayor of Vienna.
With the voice for Susi Schnatter Verona Pooth made her debut as a voice actress.
The aliens are spoken in the German version in stressed Kölnischer dialect (Kölsch ). Inter alia by Reinhard Brock, who is from Bergisch Gladbach.
Many scenes relate to other films. Among other parodies: King Kong (1933 )
E. T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982 )
The Lion King (1994 )
Independence Day (1996 )
The X-Files - The Movie (1998)
Signs - Signs (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)

Film Music

In the film can be heard, among other things:

" Stir It Up" by Patti LaBelle and Joss Stone
" One Little Slip" by Barenaked Ladies
"Is not No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross
"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine )" by REM
"Do not Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John and Kiki Dee
" Wannabe " by the Spice Girls

Awards

Nomination for Best Animated Film at the 2005 Satellite Awards
Nomination for Best Animated Film at the 2006 Annie Awards

Reviews

" The anti - alien fighters chicks can not keep up with Madagascar and The Incredibles. But there is still enough to cackle. "Cinema

" Wonderfully crazy! In quietschbunter backdrop inflamed, Chicken Little ' a gag fireworks with deceptive comic slapstick and a lot of feeling - especially by the heartwarming father-son relationship that strongly, Finding Nemo ' recalls. Sure, the story of the lovable loser who mutates into a hero is not very original; the alien action comes suddenly. But kids are at cool music ( REM), the sugar-sweet chicken and the voices of Kim and Frank Verona Pooth still get their money. " TV Movie

DVD-/BD-Veröffentlichung

Chicken Little. Special Collection. Walt Disney Home Video Entertainment 2006 ( DVD)
Chicken Little. Walt Disney Home Video Entertainment in 2007 (BD)

Soundtrack

John Debney et al.: Chicken Little - German original film soundtrack. Disney Enterprises / EMI S. L., 2006, Media -No. 0-0946-3-51941-2-8 ( contains both songs, as well as parts of the film music)

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