Some people might wonder why Disney gives me the creeps and why I am much slower to say favourable things about them or buy their products (including their takeover of Pixar, and aside even from the issue of the quality of their products). Sure dont they make cute cartoons and family films? Take a look at an example of them throwing their legal weight around in attempt to stifle freedom of expression and fair use so as to distract from hate speech. There are no shortage of examples of their litigiousness if you care to search, and their rabid protection of their copyrights is in stark contrast to their plundering of the Public Domain for inspiration.

Chicken little is not as awful as Sharks Tale. Damning it with faint praise is more than it deserves, the Spice Girls karaoke scene was almost enough to make me leave. Tiredness got the better of me and I sat through this rest of this indulgent mess of a film until right the end. The fact that the leading character was written as a girl right up until very near the end of production might give you some idea of how confused the storytellers were. As with the rancid Sharks Tale there were many pop-culture references and shameless "borrowing" (the kind Disney would sue you for if you dared try it with any of their characters) most noticably War of the Worlds. The end came more than ten minutes too late, after adding a pointless dollop of Hollywood navel gazing only diminished and complicated a nice enough story. Chickle Little lacks depth - featherweight (obligatory bad pun) - and has little to recommend itself to anyone over twelve years of age. Reminds me I should watch Monsters Inc. again soon. Chicken Little isn't unbearably awful, however it certainly isn't a classic either. Although maybe I'm just jealous of Zack Braff.

With any there will be less rubbish films from Disney in future. Hopefully Steve Jobs and John Lasseter can use Pixar to revitalise Disney much the same way NeXT managed a reverse take-over of Apple. There is a comment made about Steve Jobs: "Don't give up the day job". Keep in mind that Apple revenues are chump change compared to Pixar, and the animation studio he bought into from George Lucas for $10 Million totally dwarfs Apple for which Steve Jobs is better known.