Just got done rewatching this. It's okay. Mediocre as all

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Just got done rewatching this. It's okay. Mediocre as all hell and hasn't aged well visually at all, but okay. A lot of the humor aged like sour milk like most kids movies and some of the more meme-y characters like the fish and pig are insufferable, but watching it didnt make me want to die like a bunch of other kiddie fodder movies.

It is interesting to look at it from the angle of Disney attempting self parody as well as a time capsule of the early to mid 2000's. There's the weird overreliance on the licensed soundtrack as opposed to the other Disney films. I could go on but I feel like that could be fleshed out elsewhere but better. Its also funny to see it as Disney's own attempt at making their own Shrek but without the absolute bile Katzenburg poured into that series.

I don't get the autismo hate on the dad character however. Like he's fairly tame for cartoon dads, its clear that the movie acknowledges he's probably ill equipped emotionally to be there as a dad early on, and the setting's a small town and usually when someone fucks up there, that whole family gets associated and shamed so it wasnt unnatural he felt embarrased. Again its not like he outright abandons Chicken Little. Where did the sperg hate for this character come from anyways? Did Mr.Enter make a review of it or something?

But yeah, it's such a weirdly mediocre movie that perfectly captures what pop culture for kids was like at the time. There's even an advert for Buena Vista Games of all things at the end. Damn its hard to sit through after being spoiled by Zootopia's stunning fur tech just to see babby's first Blender models though.