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After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.

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- Mark Kennedy(story by)
- Steve Bencich(screenplay by)
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- Zach Braff(voice)
- Joan Cusack(voice)
- Garry Marshall(voice)

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- Mark Dindal(story by)
- Mark Kennedy(story by)
- Steve Bencich(screenplay by)
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- Zach Braff(voice)
- Joan Cusack(voice)
- Garry Marshall(voice)

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- 4 wins & 15 nominations

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Zach Braff

Chicken Little
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Joan Cusack

Abby Mallard
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Garry Marshall

Buck Cluck
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Don Knotts

Mayor Turkey Lurkey
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Patrick Stewart

Mr. Woolensworth
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Amy Sedaris

Foxy Loxy
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Steve Zahn

Runt of the Litter
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Wallace Shawn

Principal Fetchit
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Harry Shearer

Dog Announcer
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Fred Willard

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Catherine O'Hara

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Alien Cop
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Adam West

Ace - Hollywood Chicken Little
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Mark Walton

Goosey Loosey
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Fish Out of Water
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Joe Whyte

Rodriguez
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Sean Elmore

Kirby - Alien Kid
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Mayor Turkey Lurkey: [to an alien] Oh, we surrender! Here, take the key to the city!
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Laughter ensues in this film

Chicken Little

Chicken Little puts you right with the characters and is funny for all. The jokes are great because children will still get them, while the adults won't groan aloud. The movie is based on the original tale of Chicken Little, but adds so much more to the story.

The story starts off with Chicken Little proclaiming that "the sky is falling". Sadly, not even his father believes him. Chicken Little feels bad about this, but manages to keep high spirits with the help of three good friends: Runt (a nervous pig), Fish (a mute fish, who goes around with a water filled helmet), and Abby (an "ugly duckling", but it is the nicest girl on the block, and has a crush on Chicken Little).

One year after the "sky is falling" incident, it happens again. A piece of the sky falls right on his head! This time, Chicken Little gets his friends' help. They soon discover that the "sky piece" is really part of and alien space ship. Jokes galore when they find themselves on the ship. You'll laugh until you cry.

Chicken Little is played Scrubs' Zach Braff. He brings a childish innocence to the character, while completely relating to thousands. Steve Zahn lends his voice to Runt, who has a superiority complex, but is a true friend and a karaoke fan. Fish Dan Molina creates Fish's voice. This is a cute role, who is a classic character, such as Scrat in Ice Age. He'll make any situation funny.

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- November 4, 2005 (United States)
- United States
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Also known as
- Chú Gà Siêu Quậy
- Walt Disney Feature Animation - 500 S. Buena Vista Street, Burbank, California, USA
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- Walt Disney Pictures
- Walt Disney Animation Studios
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- $150,000,000 (estimated)
- $135,386,665
- $40,049,778
- Nov 6, 2005
- $314,432,837

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1 hour 21 minutes
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Roger Ebert November 03, 2005

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As the hero of a story, Chicken Little is the poultry equivalent of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Once you understand their mistakes, their stories are over, and attention passes to the results of their errors. In Chicken Little's case, the sky was not falling. In the case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf, I cannot remember if he was eaten by one, but he was asking for it.

There is one way for Chicken Little to redeem himself, and that would be for the sky to actually fall. "Chicken Little," the new animated cartoon from Disney, wisely takes this approach, and even provides an explanation: Earth is being attacked from outer space. When Chicken Little claims he was hit on the head by a chunk of blue sky, and the townspeople think it was only an acorn, the chicken is telling the truth.

The movie takes place in an all-purpose town named Oakley Oaks, where chameleons change color while functioning as traffic signals. In a salute to the original British children's story, the film has a Turkey Lurkey (he's the mayor), a Foxy Loxy (she's foxy, all right, but not very nice) and even a Goosey Loosey (Mark Walton, who will be cautious in adding this credit to his resume). Chicken Little is voiced by Zach Braff; his father, Buck Cluck (Garry Marshall), obviously moved to Oakley Oaks from Brooklyn.

The plot: Chicken Little thinks the sky is falling and seems to be mistaken. He is ambushed and hounded by the press. There are no skies of mass destruction. He is shamed and humiliated. His friends loyally stand by him; they would be the goths, nerds, geeks and outsiders in a human town: Abby (the Ugly Duckling) Mallard, voiced by Joan Cusack; Fish Out of Water, who wears a diver's helmet filled not with air but water and is not voiced because he doesn't talk and you couldn't hear him, anyway; and Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn), who is so fat he can hardly see his stomach, let alone his feet.

Will Chicken Little ever be able to hold his head up again? In an attempt to redeem himself, he joins the town baseball team, but even though he plays in the big game, this sequence feels, frankly, as if the plot is killing time. That's because it is.

Then the heavy duty plotting arrives, as the town is attacked by animated versions of the alien creatures who remind us of Spielberg's "War of the Worlds," crossed with other alien-invasion pictures. Does Chicken Little save the day? Let's put it this way: Here is a movie where you don't have to wonder what a bear does in the woods.

The problem, I think, lies with the story. As a general rule, if a movie is not about baseball or space aliens, and you have to use them, anyway, you should have started with a better premise. The best animated films are based either on sturdy fables that deserve retelling ("Beauty and the Beast"), new stories involving archetypal emotions ("Finding Nemo") or satire ("The Incredibles"). "Chicken Little" seems uncomfortably close to the Three Little Pigs and other not-ready-for-prime-time players. Yes, it's funny how they involve animal traits in the daily affairs of the town, and yes, the voice talent (especially Garry Marshall and such verbal originals as Wallace Shawn, Fred Willard and Don Knotts) is sometimes funny just because of the performers.

The movie did make me smile. It didn't make me laugh, and it didn't involve my emotions, or the higher regions of my intellect, for that matter. It's a perfectly acceptable feature cartoon for kids up to a certain age, but it doesn't have the universal appeal of some of the best recent animation.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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Chicken Little (2005)

Rated G

81 minutes

Cast

Zach Braff as Chicken Little

Garry Marshall as Buck Cluck

Joan Cusack as Abby Mallard

Steve Zahn as Runt of the Litter

Amy Sedaris as Foxy Loxy

Don Knotts as Mayor Turkey Lurkey

Patrick Stewart as Mr. Woolensworth

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Mark Dindal

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Steve Bencich
Ron J. Friedman
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"Black Chicken" in 5 minutes. Brief summary of Pogorelsky's fairy tale

Forty years ago, in St. Petersburg on Vasilevsky Island, there lived the owner of a men's boarding school. Among the thirty or forty children who studied at that boarding school, there was one boy named Alyosha, who was then no more than 9 or 10 years old. His parents, who lived far, far away from Petersburg, brought him to the capital two years before, sent him to a boarding school and returned home, paying the teacher the agreed fee for several years in advance. Alyosha was a smart, sweet boy, he studied well, and everyone loved and caressed him.

The days of training passed quickly and pleasantly for him, but when Saturday came and all his comrades hurried home to their relatives, then Alyosha bitterly felt his loneliness. Alyosha fed the hens, who lived near the fence in a house specially built for them and played and ran around in the yard all day. He especially liked the black crested one, called Chernushka. Nigella was more affectionate towards him than others.

Once, for a holiday, the cook was catching a chicken, and Alyosha, throwing himself on her neck, did not let Chernushka be killed. I gave the cook an imperial for this - a gold coin, a gift from my grandmother.

After the holiday, he went to bed, almost fell asleep, but heard someone calling him. A blackie came to him and said in a human voice: follow me, I'll show you something pretty. Get dressed soon! And he boldly followed her. It was as if rays came out of her eyes, which illuminated everything around them, although not as brightly as small candles. They went through the front.

"The door is locked with a key," said Alyosha; but the hen did not answer him: she flapped her wings, and the door opened of itself.

Then, passing through the hallway, they turned to the rooms where the hundred-year old Dutch women lived. Alyosha never visited them. The hen flapped her wings again, and the door to the old woman's chambers opened. We went into the second room, and Alyosha saw a gray parrot in a golden cage. Blackie said not to touch anything.

Passing by a cat, Alyosha asked her for paws... Suddenly she meowed loudly, the parrot puckered up and started shouting loudly: “Stupid! fool!" Chernushka hurried away, and Alyosha ran after her, the door behind them slammed hard...

Suddenly they entered the hall. Knights in shining armor hung on the walls on both sides. Blackie walked in front on tiptoe and Alyosha ordered to follow her quietly, quietly... There was a large door at the end of the hall. As soon as they approached her, two knights jumped off the walls and rushed at the black hen. Blackie raised her crest, spread her wings and suddenly became big, big, taller than the knights, and began to fight with them! The knights attacked her strongly, and she defended herself with her wings and nose. Alyosha became frightened, his heart fluttered violently, and he fainted.

The next night Chernushka came again. They went again, but this time Alyosha did not touch anything.

They entered another room. Blackie is gone. Then a lot of little people entered, no more than half a yard tall, in smart multi-colored dresses. They did not notice Alyosha. Then the king entered. Because Alyosha saved his minister, Alyosha now knew the lesson without learning. The king gave him a hemp seed. And they asked not to tell anyone about them.

Classes began, and Alyosha knew every lesson. Blackie didn't come. Alyosha was ashamed at first, but then he got used to it.

Besides, Alyosha has become a terrible scoundrel. One day the teacher, not knowing what to do with him, asked him to memorize twenty pages by another morning and hoped that at least that day he would be quieter. But Alyosha on that day was deliberately more naughty than usual. The next day I could not utter a word, because there was no seed. He was taken to the bedroom and told to learn a lesson. But by dinner time Alyosha had not yet learned his lesson. They left him there again. By nightfall, Chernushka appeared and returned the grain to him, but asked him to correct himself.

The lesson answered the next day. The teacher asked when Alyosha had learned the lesson. Alyosha was taken aback, they ordered to bring the rods. The teacher said that he would not flog if Alyosha said when he had learned the lesson. And Alyosha told everything, forgetting about the promise given to the underground king and his minister. The teacher did not believe, and Alyosha was whipped.

Chernushka came to say goodbye. She was chained up. She said that people now have to move far away. She asked Alyosha to correct herself again.

The minister shook hands with Alyosha and hid under the next bed. The next day, in the morning, Alyosha had a fever. Six weeks later Alyosha recovered and tried to be obedient, kind, modest and diligent. Everyone loved him again and began to caress him, and he became an example for his comrades, although he could no longer memorize twenty printed pages suddenly, which, however, he was not asked.

Summary Black chicken or underground inhabitants Pogorelsky for the reader's diary, read a brief retelling online

Year: 1829 Genre : fairy tale

Main characters: boy Alyosha, a chicken nicknamed Chernushka

A wonderful fairy tale about a black chicken was written by Antony Pogorelsky, a ten-year-old fat man. This boy later became a famous writer and poet.

Plot

The main character of the tale is also ten years old and his name is also Alyosha. He lives at a boarding house in St. Petersburg, far from his parents. Alyosha is a diligent student, a good friend and just a kind boy. One day he saves a chicken that was assigned to the kitchen, and from that moment his life changes completely. He gains an amazing ability, but instead of using it for the benefit of himself and others, he imagines that he is now better than his comrades, becoming proud, arrogant and lazy. Alyosha commits an act, in which he later deeply regrets, and this becomes the beginning of his return to his former life as a diligent student.

Antony Pogorelsky's wonderful tale has been teaching boys and girls for almost 200 years to be responsible for their words and deeds, to value friendship and not to look for workarounds where diligence is needed. And for adults, this work is an opportunity to remember childhood, plunging into the atmosphere of one of the favorite fairy tales of their childhood.

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So, our Alyosha is a lonely quiet boy who lives very far from his home and his family. He was brought to Petersburg to receive a good education. Alyosha constantly lives in a boarding house and does not even have the opportunity to go home for the holidays. He misses his loved ones very much, invents stories for himself about a kind sorceress who someday will come to the fence of the boarding house and give him a present from his parents.

The days of study are filled with various activities, and time passes quickly for Alyosha, on holidays, weekends and vacations, his study mates leave for their families, and he is left all alone. The boy has very little entertainment during such periods, he reads chivalric novels, since the teacher allows you to take books from his library, walks in the yard and makes friends with chickens, plays with them, and feeds them bread crumbs. Of all, the boy singles out one, the most, in his opinion, beautiful. He calls her Chernushka for the color of her feathers, and considers her his friend.

One day, walking in the yard, Alyosha sees in the yard how the cook is trying to catch his beloved Chernushka. The further fate of the chicken is clear for the boy, and he, rushing to the cook, begs her to let the black chicken go, giving in exchange for her life, his only, carefully kept, treasure - a gold coin. From that moment on, real magic begins in Alyosha's life.

The same night Blackie comes to his bedroom and invites him to go to that part of the house where the boy has never been before. On the way, a black hen asks him to be quiet. But the environment surprises Alyosha so much that he cannot restrain himself and the noise happens through his fault. The knights guarding the magical passage wake up, and Chernushka enters into battle with them. From the unreality of what is happening and strong feelings, Alyosha loses consciousness and ... wakes up in the morning in his bed. He is annoyed with himself for his incontinence and waits for the night in the hope that the hen will come to him again. And so it happens.

This time Alyosha tries his best to be quiet and they end up in a magical kingdom. Suddenly it turns out that Chernushka is not a chicken at all, but a prime minister, who is appreciated by all the inhabitants of the underworld. The king himself goes to Alyosha to thank him and promises to fulfill any wish. Alyosha, not ready for such a turn, asks for the first thing that came to mind - the ability to always know a given lesson without making any effort. He is given a magical seed with such power as long as it is in the pocket of his clothes. Then the underground inhabitants show Alyosha the wonders of their kingdom, invite him to hunt and treat him to delicious misfortune. Blackie tells the story of the kingdom and asks the boy never to tell anyone about their existence, because otherwise they will have to go far, far away from here.

School starts. On the very first day, Alyosha did not learn anything, brilliantly answers all the lessons. At first, he is embarrassed by praise, he understands that there is no merit in his excellent results. But time goes by, he gets used to his gift and begins to look down on his comrades, for whom study is not so easy. From a modest, diligent and kind boy, he turns into an arrogant, proud, arrogant one. He becomes a notorious naughty and the more he plays pranks, the more he is given lessons in the form of punishment. And then one day he failed to answer the teacher of a given lesson.

Putting his hand in his pocket, he discovered that the miraculous seed had disappeared. He spent the whole day upset, and at night Chernushka brought him the loss. The Minister of the Underworld was very upset by the change that had taken place in his friend. Alyosha decides to improve. The next day, he answers the lesson to the teacher, lying that he learned everything in the morning, but his comrades catch him in a lie, and out of fear of punishment, Alyosha tells the whole truth about his gift and Chernushka and the underground inhabitants. Of course, they do not believe him, the boy is being punished. At night, it turns out that all the underground inhabitants leave their habitable place, Chernushka is now forced to wear chains on his hands as a sign of punishment. From experiences Alyosha the next morning becomes seriously ill. While recovering, he realizes that the changes that have taken place with him have spoiled his character. Alyosha greatly repents of his attitude towards his comrades, and most of all that he spoke about the underground kingdom, forcing its inhabitants to leave for new places. The boy is corrected, once again becoming kind, diligent, hardworking and modest.

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