Tiana's Bayou Adventure: Disneyland Watch & Discussion

Rich T

Rich T

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BrerFoxesBayouAdventure said:
I'm not sure how audiences at the time reacted to it, but I feel like Chicken Little was much more of a success than say Home on the Range or Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
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Not by much, but it was not a box office “bomb” on the level of HotR, Atlantis, Treasure Planet or Strange World.

Chicken Little benefitted from existing at a time when CGI animated features were still a new enough phenomenon to pull in crowds just because it was CGI.

But, beyond initial box office, what’s also important is the overall worth of a film as an ongoing IP asset. Treasure Planet and Atlantis keep gaining fans through home viewing and keep looking better and better in retrospect (in that respect, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Strange World). HotR would probably have gained fans too, if had genuinely been a better film. Chicken Little, on the other hand, seems to get less appealing with age. Personally, I find its character design style to be unique for Disney, but off-putting.
 
LittleBuford

LittleBuford

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Rich T said:
Not by much, but it was not a box office “bomb” on the level of HotR, Atlantis, Treasure Planet or Strange World.

Chicken Little benefitted from existing at a time when CGI animated features were still a new enough phenomenon to pull in crowds just because it was CGI.

But, beyond initial box office, what’s also important is the overall worth of a film as an ongoing IP asset. Treasure Planet and Atlantis keep gaining fans through home viewing and keep looking better and better in retrospect. (in that respect, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Strange World). HotR would probably have gained fans too, if had genuinely been a better film. Chicken Little, on the other hand, seems to get less appealing with age. Personally, I find its character design style to be unique for Disney, but off-putting.
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Chicken Little holds the unique distinction of being the only Disney animated film I have no desire ever to rewatch. The one time I watched it a few years ago, I found it singularly unenjoyable and ugly.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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Rich T said:
Not by much, but it was not a box office “bomb” on the level of HotR, Atlantis, Treasure Planet or Strange World.

Chicken Little benefitted from existing at a time when CGI animated features were still a new enough phenomenon to pull in crowds just because it was CGI.

But, beyond initial box office, what’s also important is the overall worth of a film as an ongoing IP asset. Treasure Planet and Atlantis keep gaining fans through home viewing and keep looking better and better in retrospect (in that respect, I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Strange World). HotR would probably have gained fans too, if had genuinely been a better film. Chicken Little, on the other hand, seems to get less appealing with age. Personally, I find its character design style to be unique for Disney, but off-putting.
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Chicken Little is pretty dated looking and low res. It's like when you look at the humans at the original Toy Story. That movie could use 4k upgrade.

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Professortango1

Professortango1

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I actually enjoy Chicken Little, but I am also a Steve Zahn fan. I find it genuinely funny and when I saw it the first time, I was so excited to see aliens zapping characters into oblivion in a Disney film.

Is it a Disney classic? No, but they tried something and I think it mostly worked.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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PiratesMansion said:
The most hideous, unappealing character design in a Disney movie by MILES.

I genuinely can't think of a single redeeming quality this film has.
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It was better than Meet the Robinsons? That is a pretty cringy movie.

Bolt was better than both of them. It felt more like 70s Disney.
 
Rich T

Rich T

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TrainsOfDisney said:
Was the tree on top controversial?
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No, I’d guess it’s just a case where they first scrapped the boat in the tree idea as too much, and then they decided to just start with a clean slate and let the new exterior be more of its own thing. Again, just a guess; I wasn’t at the meetings. 😃
 

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