How Chicken Little SAVED The Walt Disney Company

[@jamesgeorgi6627]

Chicken Little: Come on Dad. We got a company to save!

[@hiattgrey9161]

This is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies. Chicken Little may not be Disney's greatest in the world, but if it wasn't for this film, we never would have gotten Tangled, Frozen, Zootopia, etcetra.

[@mariobabbo3497]

Even though this movie is good, it would foreshadow Disney’s later CGI animated movies from the 2010s although making it one of the most important movies from Disney.

[@williammorris89]

Well, anyone who says that immediately crosses a line!

[@FanimationXV]

It would be nice if you did a history of the Disney Vault and its home media division from the 80's to the 90's like what Yesterworld did, but in your own presentation like this Animat. It would work out well. And to talk about why Disney kept reissuing their animated classics in the big screen until the 90's.

[@CaptainCat101]

What could Animat add that Yesterworld didn't already say?

[@lamontyaboy718]

@@CaptainCat101 it would basically be the same information. I mean I would watch it if animat did decide to cover it but it's not really necessary. Yesterworld's video already does a great job covering the topic.

[@kkstar1297]

He’s already made three documentaries about the Disney animated studio. One back in 2009, one back in 2019 and he just made another one recently. (That one’s the longest. 11 freakin hours!)

[@FanimationXV]

@@kkstar1297 No not that Lookback, I mean the Disney Vault during the times when Disney was continuously reissuing their classics, and slowly bringing them out on home media. Which were the untouchables I mean.

[@kkstar1297]

@@FanimationXV He did a different one about the Disney Vault?

[@jonnyboy4289]

So to conclude, Chicken Little was a decent hit at the box office, despite receiving the worst reception any Disney film ever had at the time, PIXAR felt like Disney can improve. So, Disney used the money to buy PIXAR, Disney's CGI animated films got better, and the rest was history.

[@vertex8736]

Thanks for saving me 17 minutes

[@michaeltan1208]

Yeah, but Disney's fairy tale tradition wasn't the same anymore. I mean, I like the old ones, but the new Disney movies like Frozen or Moana makes me want to hate Disney.

[@jonnyboy4289]

@@michaeltan1208 I don't get it, these films are beloved by many.

[@Jean_Jacques148]

@@michaeltan1208 no lol

[@elephantskingdom1671]

@@michaeltan1208 why do you hate hate Frozen and Moana? It's your opinion, but still. Why?

[@akganimationstudioproducti3779]

So even if Chicken Little isn’t Disney’s best film, at least it did help to bring the company back up when they were hitting rock bottom

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

That's the whole idea/point

[@tazinboor3913]

Before I say this I just want to say that I like all three of these movies… Dinosaur: *I’m* the worst Disney movie! Ralph breaks the Internet: No, *I* am!! Chicken Little: *Hold my Sky Piece*

[@mariobabbo3497]

It even broke box office records managing to claim #1 again in its second week of release, earning $31.7 million, beating Sony's sci-fi family film, Zathura.[42] The film grossed $135.4 million in North America, and $179 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $314.4 million.

[@untitledjunk03]

I’ve got one question for you, Mat… *”Are you ready to rock?”*

[@DanielGarcia-rn3ql]

Ain’t no mountain high enough ain’t no valley low

[@GeoGuy2018]

@@DanielGarcia-rn3ql 🎵Ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from you🎵

[@Tadicuslegion78]

There. Needs to be more “Waking Sleeping Beauty” style documentaries about Disney post Lion King to truly cover it all

[@jonnyboy4289]

I couldn't agree more.

[@MrGabeanator]

ik

[@hamursh]

I agree, I would love to see the drama between Eisner and Roy E Disney as well as talk about the making of Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, Hercules, Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis, Treasure Planet and even the making of Disney's One Saturday Morning! I'm guessing that Chris Buck Byron Howard would be the director of it!

[@jonnyboy4289]

@@hamursh AniMat already covered those movies in history of Disney Animation Studios +. But 1 Saturday Morning is a possibility.

[@MrGabeanator]

@@hamursh oh yeah baby

[@albertoherrera2814]

I feel like Disney’s films at the time besides Lilo & Stitch were flopping at the box office not because they were hand drawn, but because the stories and characters didn’t grab people like the Pixar films, the Shrek movies, and Ice Age. If you asked someone to pick between Home on the Range and The Incredibles based on the story without mentioning the animation technique used, they would more likely pick the latter film. You could make Home on the Range CG animated and it would still flop. Heck, Curious George did better financially than Doogal in February 2006 despite being 2D animation. If you asked someone who has no attachment to either source material which movie sounds more appealing, they would more likely pick Curious George. What I’m trying to say is that the animation technique doesn’t matter if the story and characters aren’t grabbing audiences. That’s why I think 2D and stop-motion should be allowed to exist alongside 3D.

[@adampkalb]

Agreed. I will deliver your message to the current animators of Walt Disney Studios when I start writing an animated movie for them. It was a double-unlucky coincidence that they premiered The Princess and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh next to Avatar and Deathly Hallows Part 2.

[@theggamer2824]

Also another example the first sponge Bob squarepants movie. Where it was 2D

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@theggamer2824 Yeah but the SpongeBob movie wasn't a movie with brand new characters audiences didn't know yet that movie was guaranteed to do well because it's SpongeBob most people were already somewhat familiar with him and the show is popular .

[@disneyfan8719]

Yeah, the fact that all the CG films at the time were big hits and 2D films were flops was arguably more of a coincidence than anything. The animation community goes on and on about how 2D animation is being treated unfairly when 1. The stories of these so called underrated gems from the early 2000s (although, I would probably consider most of them underrated in a way) didn't grab our attention as much storywise, and 2. They're part of the problem in some ways. Constant whining and harassment won't get you the 2D films you want! Also, I don't know if you actually saw these 2000s 2D films in theaters or not, but if you didn't, then you probably shouldn't complain much about the decline of 2D if it was partially your dang fault. Lol

[@havenspringer]

Treasure planet was good from what I heard. So maybe it was purposefully bad marketing too

[@marxiplier4322]

Who knew that one of my favourite childhood movies that pretty much everyone else hates, would be the key factor in Disney’s rise to power. Yes, Chicken Little was one of my favourite childhood movies.

[@trevorsgamingroom5284]

*rise to power

[@marxiplier4322]

@@trevorsgamingroom5284 fixed

[@SprinkleMyDoughnuts]

Mine too

[@mariobabbo3497]

@@SprinkleMyDoughnuts Fact: Disney’s Chicken Little was dedicated to the memory of legendary Disney writer Joe Grant who passed away six months before this movies release in May 2005.

[@williammorris89]

You would have to hate it now because you should know by now it literally serves as pro-bullying propaganda!

[@MasontheMarxistDog]

The hero we didn’t want but the hero we deserved

[@macbarrpup2451]

Underrated comment.

[@matthewreynoso6904]

Indeed!

[@mariobabbo3497]

@@matthewreynoso6904 thus Chicken Little began Disney’s focus on CGI animated features

[@matthewreynoso6904]

@@mariobabbo3497 Yes! You’re correct my friend!

[@fantasticfreddie5]

Whether we love or hate the movie, we can't deny if it wasn't for Chicken Little we wouldn't have some of Disney's greatest films of today like Tangled, Zootopia or Frozen among others. Great job as always Animat.

[@michaeltan1208]

Yeah, Great job!

[@machomachoduck2096]

You call Zootopia and Frozen some of Disney’s greatest films? I guess you haven’t seen more than a handfull of Disney films.

[@haywardbarrows5906]

Just like Mega Man 1 starting the MM franchise, whatever the reputation (ala the boxart) what matters is how that recognition can lead you forward on a successful path

[@mariobabbo3497]

@@machomachoduck2096for those movies majority of the animators are from Chicken Little but most of them are from a 2D experience retrained from 3D animation.

[@ferminmarkpousada1455]

I still think the movie would've been a modest box office sucess if the executives would've let Mark Dindal to do HIS original vision of Chicken Little, instead of the movie we got

[@FormalFilmsProductions]

Agreed

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

I still would have wanted to see that one film Disney was working on till it got cancelled in favor of Chicken Little called My Peoples (had a few other names too) Dazz I think talked about it recently

[@Boomy2nicce]

You want to know why Disney would not have launched into success? Because it kept catering the girls. If you want to make money you have to grab the attention of everyone. Including adults this movie did that very well so well Disney bought Pixar after its sucess

[@joelblake5310]

It is so ironic how what is known to be the worst Disney movie saved Disney.

[@Falxifer95]

You can't go up without hitting rock bottom. But at the same time, the financial success of Chicken Little indirectly caused Meet the Robinsons' underperformance.

[@samueljones3943]

Chicken Little: You Can't escape me Mortals. SMELL MY VICTORY!!!

[@animezilla4486]

You can say that again I believe one of the major issues with the film was the father this film may have saved Disney but it'd ruin 2D animation for Disney

[@samueljones3943]

@@animezilla4486 sadly. Thank God Micheal Eisner resigned

[@orangeslash1667]

@@animezilla4486 Maybe the only reason Princess and the Frog is 2d because John lasseter knew that Disney wasn't ready to make 3d Films yet????

[@mattwolf7698]

This is one of those movies where the behind the scenes was far more interesting than the actual movie.

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

Really?

[@user_89P13-grt]

SEE, THIS is how Chicken Little should be treated!

[@hunterolaughlin]

Am I the only wishing that Michael Eisner didn’t make Mark Dindall change his original vision for Chicken Little. Mark’s version where Chicken Little is a girl actually sounded much better than the final product and more like a retelling of the fable that Disney would do and less like an animated fairy tale spoof trying to imitate Shrek’s use of pop culture songs and references. And also less mean-spirited and Buck more like a likable father. Darn you, Eisner! Why did you have to ruin someone’s vision? 🤦‍♂️

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

Money, dear boy.

[@hunterolaughlin]

@@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770 💵🔥

[@disneyfan8719]

At least we still got tons of greater films out of it.

[@RetaliationStudios1997]

@Hunter O'Laughlin I couldn't agree more... Anybody up for some KFC?

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

Ya

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

Who knew this movie saved the Walt Disney Company! Sort of rare for a movie (like Chicken Little for example) to save a movie studio (like Walt Disney). We all have to learn something totally brand-new each day of our lives, huh?

[@michaeltan1208]

Yeah, you bet!

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

@@michaeltan1208 Yep

[@mariobabbo3497]

Although a success, it’s mixed reviews caused a major shakeup in Disney’s Staff 1. This was Director Mark Dindal's last credited involvement with an animated film up until Wonder Park, as his career wasn’t doing well enough since Warne Bros. Cats Don’t Dance in 1997 and the other movies he was involved with died in development hell. 2. This was producer Randy Fullmers last credited movie as he would leave the studio with Dindal to follow a career making guitars, and he would not be in another project until Restrung, a 2014 documentary about his life. Dindal would be credited in the documentary for making illustrations. 3. It was the final blow to Michael Eisner's time at Disney. Following a decade of failed investments in Disney Theme Parks, plus internal struggles with both Roy E. Disney and Pixar's John Lasseter, Eisner resigned shortly before the film's release, Passing the Torch to Bob Iger. He has since stuck to producing TV shows through The Tornante Company, most notably the critical darling BoJack Horseman, though his creative input has been minimal after the failure of Glenn Martin DDS, which he co-created. 4. A Direct to Video sequel, simply titled Chicken Little 2, was planned. In it, Chicken Little's childhood sweetheart Abby Mallard would find herself in a Love Triangle with him and Raffaela, a French sheep, inspiring her to get a makeover. The film's poor critical reception and the management shakeup at Disney Animation a year later caused it to be shelved.

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

@@mariobabbo3497 Wow, didn't know all of those things actually happened, even if Chicken Little wasn't THAT awful. And I really had no idea that a somewhat DTV Sequel was somewhat in the works after the film was release and I'm not gonna lie, I kind of do wanna see what it would've looked like or something.

[@tahaa.]

Well you can say that Chicken Little at least gets credit for saving the mouse that was Disney.

[@maxleon61702]

And at least it's better than Netflix's Cuties. No seriously, a Chicken sacrificing his life to save his Company of Origin with the falling profits did something better than what Netflix has done to the Poor Youngsters of France.

[@kuitaranheatmorus9932]

Isn't it funny to learn that one of the worst Disney during their early 2000's Era,the one that cause and save this company,so that's very interesting,also cause this channel is pretty awesome. Also I wish y'all are having a good friday.

[@provokedrobin608]

That's because chicken little is the greatest dancer the world has ever seen

[@maddalonefarms]

Chicken Little walked so Tangled, Zootopia, and Frozen could run!

[@harmonetheanimationaddict4419]

Y’all may hate this movie, but One Little Slip has always been a banger to me.

[@RosheenQuynh]

YESSS

[@jcrews8582]

It helps that it was done by the Barenaked Ladies, who would go on to produce The Big Bang Theory theme song, which I’d argue ALSO slaps!

[@SprinkleMyDoughnuts]

It was "Stir it up" for me

[@austinreed7343]

Maybe “Is Traditional Animation Finished?” could be a good video idea.

[@michaeltan1208]

Or the video would be better if it named "Did Computer-Animation Replaces Hand-Drawn Animation?".

[@alexor1327]

Top 3 animated characters that saved their beloved companies. 1. Flapjack - Cartoon Network Studios 2. Chicken Little - Walt Disney Company 3. Oh - Dreamworks SKG

[@sabakereselidzeur1432]

This guy is more better than Wikipedia. This man is very super informative.

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

I feel like Chicken Little is The Black Cauldron to Princess and the Frog's Great Mouse Detective to Tangled's The Little Mermaid.

[@ltmmoviereviewsharrison3462]

What do you mean by that

[@Thomas_H._Smith]

@@ltmmoviereviewsharrison3462 Well The Black Cauldron was a huge critical flop and was made right in the middle of the transition from Ron Miller to Michael Eisner, but served as a bit of wake up call that Disney needed to step up their game. Just like how Chicken Little was also a critical flop, made right in the middle of the transition from Micheal Eisner to Bob Iger, and then gave Disney a wake up call to get their act back together. Then there's The Great Mouse Detective and The Princess and the Frog, both of which were directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, were Disney's attempts to get back on their feet, and while both pulled in a pretty penny neither were smash hits. Then there's The Little Mermaid and Tangled which are both animated musical adoptions of princess fairytales with music by Alan Menken, and where both turned down at first but approved literally the next day, and then were smash hits reviving Disney and starting a new renaissance era of Disney animation. Eventually leading to the highest grossing animated movies ever, with a smash hit song about letting go of worries. It's funny how history repeats itself.

[@davidhileman8567]

I think the only thing more fitting is if Chicken Little ended up being a box office disaster, just like "The Black Cauldron". Though maybe at that point, it would probably close Disney's California animation studio down for (maybe) good, and Disney would end up either laying off its crew or moving it to another country where animation could be made cheaper.

[@P-Star7511]

*“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a chicken.”*

[@brianlevine871]

"Chicken Little" may be my least favorite from the Disney Animated Canon, but since its modest success at the box office kept the Disney company alive, then I'll give it credit for doing that. That heated argument between Disney and Pixar was probably the most interesting part of this video, especially when this middle ground brought better fortunes for both of them than if the movie was a major hit. Kind of strange how some things work out.

[@saulthechicanootaku]

And something tells me that Father Buck and his narcissism were the inspiration of another Disney villain known for her narcissistic parenting: Mother Gothel

[@TommyPezMaster]

Surprising successful film that should have a video like this. * How Megamind saved Paramount and Dreamworks Animation * How Free Birds saved Relativity Media and Reel FX * How The Emoji Movie saved Sony Pictures Animation

[@angelita2213]

The emoji movie was shit emoji

[@Abbimation.]

The Emoji Movie was a main reason why they started making good animated films like Spider-Verse all because of one mistake.

[@kxhunter8791]

@@Abbimation. And very BIG MISTAKE

[@LittleMissLounge]

Ah, yes. That time my friend and I went to see Jarhead, but we were too late for the current showing, so we ended up seeing Chicken Little instead.

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

Why didn't you and your friend see "Jarhead" the next day or later that same week?

[@rattis]

Honest talk: Upon my first viewing of Chicken Little, in theaters back in 2005, I actually really enjoyed the movie. And I can't even explain it with "I was a little kid at the time" because I was 18. However, watching the movie again in the years after, I've never been able to understand WHY I enjoyed it so much the first time around, because yeah, it is a pretty bad movie. It's a mystery for the ages I guess. XD

[@yakunohayashi9653]

Buck(Chicken Little father) is so pathetic. There was a deleted scene which he was making breakfast for his son and tried to be a little more supportive. He failed but at least he tried. That would have make a different impression and make him a little bit likable, but no. They didn’t put that scene and the result is that Buck is a pathetic character and a terrible father.

[@cintronproductions9430]

If Mufasa were alive, he would furiously call out Buck for being a horrible father.

[@hunterolaughlin]

Ikr? Then again, I blame Eisner for the way Buck and the movie turned out. If he had just let Mark Dindall do his original vision for the film where Chicken Little was a girl and there was no space aliens and it was about the titular character going to summer camp and saving the campers from being eaten by their camp counselors that are actually wolves in disguise, the film could have been much better and more closer to the original fable and more like a retelling of the classic fable in the Disney style and less of an animated trying to imitate its more popular competitors.

[@nicholassims9837]

@@hunterolaughlin what do you think Colinlookback will say when he gets to Chicken Little antagonists

[@yakunohayashi9653]

Cintrón Productions you saw the deleted scene?

[@cintronproductions9430]

@@yakunohayashi9653 Yeah, the Buck in the deleted scene should have been in the final movie instead of the actual Buck we got.

[@samueljones3943]

Disney: It's the end of the world as we know it!!! Chicken Little: No its not!

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

Boy, there was ALOT of things I didn't know about how Chicken Little saved the Company! The life of making an animated film is a crazy thing.

[@fcv4616]

“How Chicken Little saved the Walt Disney company”. I sure never thought I’d see or hear that sentence.

[@cintronproductions9430]

So, by this logic, the Emoji Movie saved Sony Pictures Animation cuz after they saw that everyone hated Emoji Movie to smithereens, then they made actually great movies like Into the Spiderverse, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Wish Dragon and Vivo.

[@hunterolaughlin]

Funny how another animation studio goes through a similar resurgence.

[@Kian694]

And even the Angry Birds Movie 2 was actually pretty good and a massive improvement over the first one.

[@steamboatwill3.367]

Alltough "Spiderverse" was already in production

[@matheusalves9421]

Unpopular opinion: This movie is decent enough and people shouldn't be so hard on it. Chicken Little has a lot of things that I like. The quirky comedy, visual gags that remind me of old school Disney shorts, cartoony CGI, cool SCI-FI Subplot, an even cooler original soundtrack(Who doesn't like One Little Slip and Stir it Up?), Social Satire (What many people see it as pure free "mean-spiritedness"), and a cast of charmingly quirky main characters. But what I like most about Chicken Little is the fact that I identified myself a lot with the protagonist, I was also the child with a bad reputation whose nobody had hope, the messages that the film sends brought me hope, strength and motivation to continue . In its bizarre way I find the film extremely motivational and i wish more people could see that.

[@leonardosomma4196]

I remember when I was in primary school, they'd play films like chicken little when we had free choosing time in the after noon and I remember them vaguely which is why I try to remember them and look back on them with nostalgia

[@jordan1650]

Oh please. 2D hand-drawn animation may be 'old-fashioned', but that still doesn't change the fact that 2D hand-drawn animation is far more artistic than 3D animation.

[@BlueJack222]

Tell that to the box office sales 2000's

[@ltmmoviereviewsharrison3462]

To be honest,I find chicken little to be very underrated,I mean it’s no Disney classic,but I feel like this movie deserves a little bit more credit than people give it,I like the space alien stuff,Steve Zahn as Runt,and the soundtrack,this movie had more substance than something like the wild,home on the range or even Mars needs Moms,and I know this is gonna sound crazy,but I would like to see Disney Remake this movie,because it had potential to be a funny sci fi comedy.

[@JeffVaderVEVO]

Chicken Little is way worse than The Wild, Home On The Range, and Mars Needs Moms combined.

[@ltmmoviereviewsharrison3462]

@@JeffVaderVEVO I respect your opinion

[@looneysprig]

@@JeffVaderVEVO The Wild and Mars Needs Mom were boring AF compared to Chicken Little

[@JeffVaderVEVO]

@@looneysprig they were more boring, and they were LEAGUES better than Chicken Little

[@looneysprig]

@@JeffVaderVEVO well Mars Needs Mom was unbearable to look at. Let me guess, are you gonna say that The Emoji Movie and Foodfight are better than Chicken Little?

[@billcipher7848]

One chicken that made good amount of money at the box office had to save Disney that turned that we know today as the animation empire

[@roiitzkovich4545]

Chicken Little walked so Meet The Robinsons could run.

[@excitablepack7076]

Treasure planet almost ruined Disney But Chicken Little saved Disney? What kind of sense does that make?

[@s665677]

I like the movie's... special features of the making of the movie,deleted scenes and original story borders It what got me into lost media

[@PantaroParatroopa]

There's an important lesson here about the world-changing power of merely being okay. Had Chicken Little done gangbusters, or had Chicken Little bombed terribly, Disney wouldn't be the powerhouse it is today, for better and for worse.

[@LandBeforeTime75]

I’m pretty surprised that the most hated Disney movies actually saved Disney, I thought it was Meet the Robinsons and Bolt but it’s actually Chicken Little right from the start. As much as I hate the movie of what it is, at least it did manage to do good and saved Disney, hopefully this will make Disney fans happy.

[@macbarrpup2451]

"...Who we talkin' about?"

[@ChristianFrates1997]

Gotta go, bye!

[@macbarrpup2451]

@@ChristianFrates1997 Lol

[@LukasSheshene1]

CHICKEN LITTLE!

[@FrenchFryCheese04]

Michael Myers

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

To be honest, I didn't think Chicken Little was THAT bad of an animated movie. Sure it might not have been the best film of all time compared to Disney's other good movies like Snow White, The Lion King, Tangled, Frozen (which I still cannot believe both Frozen 1 & 2 were that popular) and Wreck-It Ralph for example, but its not as bad as other rotten films like Mars Need Moms or some of the Animated DTV Disney Sequels!

[@austinreed7343]

The thing is, Chicken Little happens to be part of the canon, unlike those others. That’s why it’s so hated.

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

@@tylersyoutubechannel9404 What'd you think I said?

[@kylemorello4787]

I honestly still have a soft spot for it and see it as less of a bad movie and more of Disney taking baby steps into a post modern world.

[@nealmcbealthenavysealicall794]

@@kylemorello4787 not the worst Disney Movie I've seen but it did give us a fun GameCube title. I'LL SAY THAT MUCH

[@kylemorello4787]

@@nealmcbealthenavysealicall794 let's be real though, if this movie walked so the later films could run, then Meet the Robinsons scurried so the later films could run! In other words, if The Princess and the Frog was the Phineas and Ferb to Tangled's Adventure Time, than Meet the Robinsons was the Chowder to both films. I guess that makes Chicken Little Johnny Test.

[@calebdoerksen2]

Regardless of the movie’s quality, the one thing that makes me thankful for its existence is how it saved Disney from doom. To give credit where credit is due, this is the movie they needed in order to keep themselves alive during the time when they were at their worst.

[@maxleon61702]

Plus, we can say what we want about Chicken Little, but at least the Music is amazingly well done.

[@maxleon61702]

Along with the Video Games.

[@eliassmeke3991]

Wow 🤩 I thought 💭 Dinosaur (2000) was Disney’s first fully cgi animated feature, but now I knew that the movie 🍿 has cgi dinosaurs 🦕 with live action backgrounds

[@richtrm3177]

Original Title: How Chicken Little TURNED The Walt Disney Company INTO A SOULESS CONGLOMERATE THAT MAKES CRAP FOR A QUICK BUCK

[@amygeer2217]

I may not like Chicken Little but I will not deny that it helped Disney in their darkest time.

[@MovieFan1912]

I just thought of something. Chicken Little seems like the movie equivalent of Hooty from The Owl House, in that it may get peoples nerves, but it is still important from a certain point of view.

[@christheleavittman7080]

Heck yeah! We got Lumity cuz of that birdtube!! (Though they were heading that direction anyways)

[@MovieFan1912]

@@christheleavittman7080 Not the point of view I was talking about, but I won’t go against what you like.

[@ledetbrothers9210]

The hero we didn’t deserve, but the hero we needed.

[@mcthetoonster1415]

It really astounds me how even if a film isn't good, it can still be respected from a historic perspective. That's the sign of good level-headed judgement. That said, people could debate if it's really a good thing that Chicken Little led to Disney buying so many properties.

[@alderlopezcastro4928]

Bob Iger's also saved disney by buying Pixar

[@alejandrovelez6358]

Then he ended up ruining the Walt Disney company by abandoning 2D hand drawn animation, preferring quantity over quality, unnecessarily buying companies like 20th Century Fox, overusing Frozen too much, making horrible Live Action remakes of already perfect Disney movies, ruining Star Wars simping for Kathleen Kennedy instead of firing her and letting her spread her anti female agenda politics, and worse starting a race that will lead the company to failure. :(

[@cheesecakebunny2002]

I miss blue sky studios man 😕😞☹

[@hunterolaughlin]

If only Fox didn’t keep making them do more Ice Age sequels and let it stop at the 3rd film, they could have been more financially and critically successful with their original films. The Peanuts Movie was proof of that.

[@bighand1530]

Same

[@untitledjunk03]

Same. Robots was a brilliant film.

[@seancollins7447]

I still believe it was Bolt in 2008 as that put Disney on the right track as it was the first CGI Disney movie to get positive reviews and get nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.

[@silverthefox5363]

ill say it but.. Chicken Little is easily one of my favourite movies of all time.

[@FrenchFryCheese04]

Same and the aliens freaked me out sorta lmao

[@somerandofromoregon]

This movie is so great and so underrated. It needs WAY more recognition.

[@JeffVaderVEVO]

Hell no this movie is garbage

[@edmilmaldonado5756]

Wow! I never thought "Chicken Little" would made such an impact! You'd think it would receive a little positive reception, considering it helped saved the Walt Disney company. By the way, I forget to mention this to you, but have you heard recent news? Cartoon Network just rejected Maxwell Atom's continuation of "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"! I need you to spread the word to any other animation KZbinrs to get fellow animation lovers to remember "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy"! As well as introducing a new generation of kids to the show!

[@samueljones3943]

Chicken Little: You Can't escape me mortals!!

[@provokedrobin608]

1:41 well at least he's still the greatest dancer

[@amesstarline5482]

So.. Chicken Little is why Disney+ exists, and by proxy, the ability to stream Owl House. (Or, it's why we have Wandavision)

[@zainmudassir2964]

I guess this movie was 'one little slip' for Disney but worked out in the end.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

Chicken Little did WHAT?

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

You read the title of the video correctly.

[@spongecrocker1345]

Chicken Little is like Disney’s lord and savior.

[@matthewn1566]

Who knew an ordinary little chicken would cause the buyout of Star Wars Marvel and Fox, the Frozen phenomenon, the live-action remakes, and Disney+? I'll tell you who. NO ONE!

[@aratusingtheinternet]

@Angus Ng it better not

[@DanielGomez-gw4kt]

ElectricDragon505 just to remind you, Brother Bear did not bomb completely at the box office. It was more of a okay Disney animated movie, for some of the people. Including hardcore Disney fans. Because when it was about bears and so forth, they couldn't resist of how cute and cuddly they were. Even though it was weird that a man if he was a like a native American, was transformed into a bear. That was one of the weirdest story lines ever written for a Brother Bear, a man that transforms into a bear. After when he killed a mother bear, and he had to struggle to find help to transform into a man again. I believe the story concept a Brother Bear where a man transforms into a bear, after killing a mother bear. And teaching him a lesson of how bears live life and so forth in nature, but he struggles to wanting to be a man again. I believe that type of story concept and probably experiment is really weird. I did feel bad for Kenai, when he transformed into a bear. Although I wish he shouldn't have killed a mother bear, who was the mother of Coda the bear cub. But I couldn't resist of how cute and playful Coda was, because he's just a young bear. And really a kid, who just wants to make friends with another bear. Because he lost his mother, and he was trying to hide from hunters. Until he met Kenai, and felt like that he and Kenai should be like brothers as well. So basically half of the movie of Brother Bear was weird, because of a man killing a mother bear and he transforms into a bear. And struggling to wanting to be a man again and get some help. And the other half of Brother Bear is cute, cuddly, fun and heartwarming. And some of it to give really good action in some parts of the movie. So with all of this in mind, Brother Bear did not flop and did not bomb at the box office. It was a okay movie for some people, and even hardcore Disney fans. It was a okay and fun movie basically, and some people even say that Brother Bear was the last Disney animated classic to end the Disney Renaissance. For some people, some say Brother Bear is a cult classic, with hardcore Disney fans giving it a cult following. So classic or cult classic, Brother Bear was a okay and fun Disney animated movie. And really the last Disney animated movie to end the Disney Renaissance animation run, or should I say the final Disney animated movie to make up the Disney animated Renaissance

[@emanuelepolloni4002]

It didn't manage to be a smash hit like some of the movies that preceded it, so for Disney it was a flop.

[@TheDerpyBoi]

And what does a chicken say? Peter: MOO-

[@drdewott9154]

So in other words this whole ordeal is "Task failed succesfully"

[@matthewreynoso6904]

See Chicken Little haters? A bad movie can have a good impact!

[@maxleon61702]

Yup.

[@FrenchFryCheese04]

True

[@KirbyFan9000]

"I won, but on what cost?"

[@sunspotmill1291]

It's interesting how Chicken Little financially saved WDAS, when The Black Cauldron couldn't even do that for Disney 20 years prior.... That is, of course, until The Great Mouse Detective and especially The Little Mermaid came along by the end of the 80s!

[@katelynthewhitewerewolf6376]

I never hated Chicken Little I always liked it it's one of my favorite Disney movies. And Stop hating it it saved Disney from losing everything. We never would've gotten Bolt Zootopia and others if it wasn't for Chicken Little's movie saving it.

[@avacornthelastponybender8583]

In other words, Chicken little was a f*ck up that f*cked up the right way

[@PeterGriffin11]

Chicken Little saving Disney is both good and bad on one hand Disney has made tons of great things in the time period between Chicken Little and present day opening doors in the industry for talented people but on the other hand once they brought Marvel the company has been very successful sense then but at the cost of their creativity and in terms of quality the company has gone downhill in my opinion with their greed, laziness and controversy with the Chinese government, trying to buy holidays and pretending to care about certain groups of people when it profitable for them. I guess Disney as a company was never and never will be perfect but I just think their flaws have become more apparent now.

[@orangeslash1667]

At least we have anime and European films.

[@gottahavefaithtv1514]

I love this movie! I know that’s really weird but the movie is just so unique and funny and chaotic I just have no choice not to love it. I have a special place in my heart for this movie partly because of nostalgia and partly because of how amazing this movie really is.

[@ltmmoviereviewsharrison3462]

Same here,personally I found it very underrated and somewhat misunderstood.

[@gottahavefaithtv1514]

@@ltmmoviereviewsharrison3462 Same *nods in agreement* lol 😂

[@rhymetimetown4804]

Watching this after Sora was shown for Smash is one of the best experiences I'll ever had.

[@prototype0z19athesaturdaym9]

17:32 Oh, he was talking about how you once save Disney, Ace

[@arbytv5139]

Something tells me you had a little bit of animation lookback Walt Disney animation + left in you. Oh well, at least you got the last bit of it out in another fantastic video.

[@austinreed7343]

Actually, he has a bunch of hybrids and package features to go, not to mention the ones made after it finished. There’s also tons and tons of tie-in media he forgot.

[@brandiellis4837]

I still think it's Tangled that started their revival era/age. Why, it's because the success it had due to it's name change that appealed to both boys and girls, which caused Frozen to succeed a lot more for the same reason, and Tangled still had a major risk, what is it: Well, how about the fact that this holds the title for the most expensive animated movie in history with a freaking budget of......260 million dollars!

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart1293]

Just because chicken little made disney alot of money, it doesn't change the fact that it's a bad movie.

[@jonnyboy4289]

Exactly.

[@hunterolaughlin]

The sad irony is that the film could have been good if Michael Eisner just let Mark Dindall do what he originally wanted for the film instead of suggesting changes to make it more like their competitors with the pop culture references and songs and being a modern fairy tale spoof like Shrek in order to compete with the big boys.

[@djstarkidmashups8536]

Bob Iger has been a good CEO in his early years, but he hasn't been good in his later years.

[@toplaycool21]

Kind of like how The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company led to the Disney Renaissance.

[@wahoo8683]

I guess you could some "Bad Eggs" are useful at saving something after all. Too bad I can stay the exact same thing to the rotten meat was Home On The Range! Did you know that this film was going to be It's own "Hoodwinked" at one point during early production and concept art If you own the ordinal making book of this movie.

[@nicholassims9837]

Do you know if Slim appeared in anything after Home Range ?

[@greshaminc156]

Even though the film sucks, it’s surprising that the only one thing that made Chicken Little a hero was fixing Disney to it’s original state

[@cozmiknik8699]

When I was a kid in 2005, I loved this movie because I watched it A LOT... and looking back, I can't really tell why. 🤦‍♀️

[@googamp32]

THIS is the movie that brought us the MCU. THINK about that.

[@jonnyboy4289]

Chicken Little may have been a hit at the box office, but it's still a poorly made movie that has never been well received. Just because a movie is a hit at the box office, doesn't mean it makes it good. I mean look at Transformers 4: Age of Extinction.

[@silverthefox5363]

i like it

[@amirgarcia547]

I don’t think AniMat’s arguing about the film’s reception/quality (in fact I think he gave it the seal of garbage back when he reviewed it). But that at least something good, albeit inadvertently, came from this disastrous movie as a result of its box office success.

[@albertoandroidain]

One thing I didn't expect from this movie was the fact that its second tie-in game, Ace in Action, got some pretty decent reviews. If I'm not mistaken its main mechanics are based on both Ratchet and Clank and Star Fox, but looking at the reception it looks like they did an alright job adapting them. Who would have thought, a moderately well received video game came out of the one of the most generally disliked Disney movies (I have a soft spot for the film itself, but I do acknowledge its flaws)

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

*"The rise of The Disney Empire as we know it"* That sentence is now way more chilling than it should be. Disney's becoming more and more like The Tyranids,they just consume all in their path

[@jacechretin4597]

I would love to see an animat classic review of the brave little toaster

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

I really do hope he gets around to review "Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo meets Courage the Cowardly Dog" soon! So far its already getting positive reviews and opinions when it came out 3 days ago. It really does have great writing, animation, story, jokes, music, a great Mystery to solve and the characters (mostly Scooby-Doo and Courage the Cowardly Dog themselves) are still very reconizable and incredible to this day! Still wished it happened 19 years earlier, but better late than ever in my opinion!!

[@jar1543]

I don't know

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

@@jar1543 It wasn't a question

[@jar1543]

@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 oh

[@thefantasticretroreviewer3941]

@@jar1543 Not your fault

[@jar1543]

@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 it's just that it wasn't released in theaters.

[@Macketiplasiman]

chicken little is legit the most goated disney movie lowkey.

[@desrochessimon3044]

Sounds like Chicken Little might earn his place in the roster of my idea for a Disney themed fighting game.

[@renamon5658]

Chicken little is my favorite summoning in kingdom hearts 2

[@SunRailMV]

REQUEST: The Rise & Fall of Blue Sky Studios!

[@cartoongamegirl3335]

Lilo and Stitch was not the only thing. The Emperor’s New Grove was too. In fact the most “well positiveness” coming from them as well, with more Winnie the Pooh films and two preschool shows.

[@tylerhackner9731]

Funny enough, people considered that a lesser Disney film

[@Oscar95451]

Did Michael Eisner consider as a villain and Jeffrey Katzenberg as a hero?

[@JosephRailwayStudios2000]

Well you could both say that they were both heroes or villains