Rental: Chicken Little 2. DISCLAIMER: I was awfully sleepy when I watched this movie. That may have tainted my impression of it. Chicken Little is a poorly contructed movie that was a romp through the last third of it, but should have been fun through the rest. Once you plod through the first 2/3 of the movie, which surely had theater-going children bouncing and crying bored in their seats, the film finally gets to what it should have been as of 10 minutes into it: An alien invasion movie. What-the-raygun-wielding-fuck are you people doing trying to shoehorn a heartstring-plucking father/son drama into the beginning of this movie? What, without it you couldn't produce more than an entertaining 20 minute short film? You shoulda ran with the 20. It was boring, uncomfortable-making and certainly not at all appealing to children, let alone the adults who chose to see this movie.... you know... your target audience?

Once the sky starts falling, things brighten up immensely. It becomes the movie it was meant to be. The ride is far too short though. The characters are interesting (for some reason I particularly liked Fish), but the focus was never on those characters and their personalities/quirks. I could never shake the feeling that the writers were trying to say "see how clever we are?" You'll get a good chuckle from Chicken Little when it finally rolls around to cable, but unless you've got a free rental coming, there's a lot better things to spend your time watching.  ¶ 7:21 PM