Metacritic Movie Ratings
Chicken Little Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen

  A consistently amusing, often inspired family romp.

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• 75

  out of 100

  USA TodayMike Clark

  With one of the year's busiest scripts, Little launches 76 zippy minutes.

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• 63

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  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.

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• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyTodd McCarthy

  Lives up to its name by serving up a fraction of what audiences are used to getting in this department from PixarPixar and DreamWorks -- little originality, little humor and little ingratiating characterization.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano

  Chicken Little, though it has its moments, mostly just feels anxious and overreaching. It tries to be all things to all people and fails to be anything to anyone.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum

  What falls in Chicken Little are hopes.

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• 30

  out of 100

  The New York TimesDana Stevens

  A hectic, uninspired pastiche of catchphrases and clichs, with very little wit, inspiration or originality to bring its frantically moving images to genuine life.

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• 20

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  If I could find some facet to praise, I'd be glad to do so, but the production's mediocrity is all-pervasive -- story, character, graphic design, even music -- and it all points to a failure of corporate imagination, or maybe just nerve.

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