Every Disney Hero Has a Voice ~ Chicken Little

Every Disney Hero Has a Voice

Chicken Little

Zachary I. “Zach” Braff

April 6^th, 1975

Zachary I. "Zach" Braff (born April 6, 1975) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and director. Braff first became known in 2001 for his role as Dr. John Dorian on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards.

In 2004, Braff made his directorial debut with Garden State. Braff returned to his home state New Jersey to shoot the film, which was produced for $2.5 million. The film made over $35 million at the box office and was praised by critics. Braff wrote the film, starred in it, and compiled the soundtrack record. He won numerous awards for his directing work, and also won the Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005.

Early life

Braff was born in South Orange, New Jersey. His father, Harold Irwin "Hal" Braff, is a trial attorney and sociology professor, and his mother, Anne Brodzinsky (born Anne Hutchinson Maynard), is a clinical psychologist. His parents divorced and re-married others during Braff's childhood. One of his siblings, Joshua, is an author. Braff's father was born into a Jewish family, and Braff's mother, originally a Protestant, converted to Judaism before marrying his father. Braff was raised in Conservative Judaism, and has said that he is "not a huge organized religion guy". Through his mother's New England ancestors, Braff is a distant cousin of politician Mitt Romney.

He has wanted to be a filmmaker since his early childhood, and has described it as his "life dream".

Braff was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder at age ten. He graduated from Columbia High School, in Maplewood, New Jersey, where he worked in the school's television station along with classmate and singer/actress Lauryn Hill.

As a child, Zach Braff also attended Stagedoor Manor, a performing arts "training center" for youth actors and Triple Threats ages 10–18. He fondly remembers his time there, as it was where he won an acting award and had his first kiss. Stagedoor is also where Braff met Josh Charles, with whom he is still friends, and he knows many other SDM alums, including Natalie Portman, Mandy Moore, and Joshua Radin.

Career

Braff began his career doing Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Macbeth (as Malcolm) at New York City's Public Theater, and also appeared in Woody Allen's 1993 film Manhattan Murder Mystery. Braff was briefly on the Disney program The Baby-sitters Club in an episode, "Dawn Saves the Trees".

Breakthrough role

Braff played John "J.D." Dorian on the medical comedy TV series Scrubs which debuted in 2001. The role was Braff's first major role in a television show. Braff was nominated for three Golden Globes and an Emmy for his work on the show. Braff directed several episodes of Scrubs, including its one-hundredth, "My Way Home". For the show's ninth season, Braff was a cast member for the first six episodes and also served as one of the executive producers.

As director

Braff directed several episodes of Scrubs. Braff wrote, directed, produced, and starred in 2004's Garden State, which was filmed in his home state New Jersey, in various towns such as South Orange, Cranford, Maplewood and Tenafly. Producers were initially reluctant to finance the film, which Braff wrote in six months. In February 2005, he won a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for a Motion Picture for the Garden State soundtrack, on which he also served as the compilation producer.

Braff has directed several music videos: Gavin DeGraw's "Chariot", Joshua Radin's "Closer" and "I'd Rather Be With You", Cary Brothers' "Ride", and Lazlo Bane's "Superman", the theme song from Scrubs. His music production has resulted in newfound success for some of the artists featured on his film soundtracks, such as The Shins, who were prominently featured on the Garden State soundtrack and the Scrubs soundtrack, resulting in the expression the "Zach Braff effect".

Other roles

Along with many Scrubs cast members, Braff has a small role playing himself in It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie.

Braff has done voice acting, providing the voice of the title character in Disney's animated film Chicken Little (2005), a role he reprised in the video game Kingdom Hearts II. Braff has also done voice overs for commercials, including a PUR water campaign, Wendy's TV commercials in 2007 and 2008, and Cottonelle commercials, in which he portrayed a puppy.

In 2005, Braff was featured on Punk'd when he was tricked into chasing a supposed vandal who appeared to be spray-painting his brand new Porsche. He then proceeded to hurl expletives at the young boy, and at one point physically assaulted the 12 year old until Ashton Kutcher, the show's host, appeared. The episode aired March 20, 2005.

Braff was in talks to star in the film Fletch Won and had signed on to play the role eventually played by Dane Cook in Mr. Brooks, but dropped out of both roles to work on Open Hearts, which he adapted from a Danish film and will direct. He has also co-written a film version of Andrew Henry's Meadow, a children's book, with his brother, and was scheduled to direct one of the segments for the film New York, I Love You.

In July 2009, he signed on as an executive producer for the documentary Heart of Stone to "help spread the word about it".

Braff starred in the romantic drama The Last Kiss, which opened on September 15, 2006. Braff tweaked several parts of Paul Haggis' script for the film, as he wanted the script to be as "real as possible" and "really courageous" regarding its subject matter. As with Garden State, Braff was involved with the film's soundtrack, serving as executive producer. The film's director, Tony Goldwyn, compared Braff to a younger version of Tim Allen, describing Braff as "incredibly accessible to an audience... a real guy, an everyman."

In 2007, Braff starred in the film The Ex (2007), which he has described as a "silly comedy".

Braff stars in the Canadian indie film The High Cost of Living with Quebec actress Isabelle Blais in 2010. Directed by Deborah Chow, the film was shot in Montreal and principal photography wrapped on March 9, 2010. Braff stated he enjoyed filming in the country in which The Last Kiss was also shot. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was also shown at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Theatre

Braff has spoken of his love of theater and his desire to return to stage acting in New York City, eight years after playing Sebastian in the Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night. In mid-2010, Braff took a lead role in Trust, at the Second Stage Theatre, a contemporary Off-Broadway theater company. The play ran from July 23 to September 12, extending its scheduled run by one week. Braff wrote on Facebook that he was "Having so much fun doing Trust". The play co-starred Sutton Foster, Ari Graynor and Bobby Cannavale, was written by Paul Weitz and directed by Peter DuBois. Braff played Henry, a wealthy married man who "looks to find something real in the most unlikely of places".

In early 2011, Braff announced that he had written a play to be performed at the Second Stage Theatre in mid-2011. The play, All New People, is set on Long Beach Island and centers on Charlie, a 35-year-old from Braff's home state New Jersey. The play was directed by Peter DuBois, who directed Braff in Trust the previous year. When announcing the play on Facebook, Braff wrote that 'one of my dreams comes true'. In 2012, Braff moved the play on tour to the UK, playing in Manchester at the Manchester Opera House between 8–11 February, Glasgow at the King's Theatre between 14–18 February, and finally in London for 10 weeks at the Duke of York's Theatre from 22 February.

In June 2012, he announced via Twitter there were plans to create a movie adaptation of the production

Future plans

Braff's next work as director is on the upcoming film Open Hearts, a remake of a 2002 Danish film Elsker dig for evigt (Love You Forever), which was directed by Susanne Bier. The film will focus on a woman who, shocked by her fiance's paralysis in a car crash, has an affair with her husband's doctor, whose wife caused the accident. The original film starred Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Paprika Steen. The cast-members for Braff's remake have not yet been announced. It was first revealed that Braff was planning to remake Open Hearts in 2006, at the same time Braff's film The Last Kiss was being released. The film will be produced by Paramount Pictures.

In July 2009, Braff announced via Facebook that he is working on the script of a film to be called Swingles, which he will direct and star in alongside Cameron Diaz.

Other pursuits

In 2009, Zach Braff opened up the restaurant Mermaid Oyster Bar in New York City with chef and high school friend, Laurence Edelman.

Personal life

Braff's brother is author Joshua Braff; his stepsister is Jessica Kirson, a New York stand-up comedian.

Braff is currently dating model Taylor Bagley whom he has been in a relationship with since 2009. Braff is best friends with his former Scrubs co-star Donald Faison.

In November 2008, Braff earned his pilot's license flying a Cirrus SR20.

Braff was spotted attending the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Filmography

Actor

Film credits
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1993	Manhattan Murder Mystery	Nick Lipton
1999	Getting to Know You	Wesley
2000	Endsville	Dean
2000	Blue Moon	Fred
2000	The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy	Benji
2002	It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie	Himself/John "J.D." Dorian	TV film
2004	Garden State	Andrew Largeman	Central Ohio Film Critics Association for Breakthrough Film Artist (also for writing and directing) Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss (shared with Natalie Portman) Nominated—MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Male Performance Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Drama Actor Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Blush Scene Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Breakout Performance - Male Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Liplock (shared with Natalie Portman) Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Love Scene
2005	Chicken Little	Chicken Little	Voice only
2006	The Last Kiss	Michael
2007	The Ex	Tom Reilly
2011	The High Cost of Living	Henry
2013	Oz: The Great and Powerful	Frank and Finley	Filming Dual role
TBA	Open Hearts	Niels	TBA

Television credits
Year	Show	Role	Notes
1993	The Baby-Sitters Club	David Cummings	1 episode
1994	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Tony / Tammy	1 episode
2001–2010	Scrubs	John "J.D." Dorian	Main character and narrator (175 episodes) Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2005, 2006, 2007) Nominated—Hollywood Foreign Press Association Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy (2005, 2006) Nominated—People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Television Star (2005) Nominated—People's Choice Award for Best Leading Star (2005) Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (2005) Nominated—Satellite Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy (2005) Nominated—Teen Choice Award for Choice TV: Comedy Actor (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006)
2002	Clone High	Paul Revere / X-Stream Mike	2 episodes (voice only)
2005–2006	Arrested Development	Phillip Litt	2 episodes
2009	Scrubs: Interns	John "J.D." Dorian	1 webisode
2010	Cougar Town	Himself/Phone App/Pizza delivery guy	2 episodes
2012	The Exes	Chuck Feeney	1 episode
2013	Do You Heard What I Said?	Nall Mansen	1 episodes

Director

Film and television director
Year	Film	Notes
1997	Lionel on a Sunday	Short film. Also writer
2004	Garden State	Also writer and actor Central Ohio Film Critics Association for Breakthrough Film Artist (also for acting) Central Ohio Film Critics Association for Best New Director Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Most Promising Filmmaker Crystal Image Award Florida Film Critics Circle's Pauline Kael Breakout Award Hollywood Breakthrough Award for Breakthrough Directing Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature (shared with producers Pamela Abdy, Gary Gilbert, Dan Halsted and Richard Klubeck) National Board of Review Award for Best Directorial Debut Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Breakthrough Filmmaker Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Breakout of the Year - Behind the Camera Nominated—Empire Award for Best Newcomer Nominated—Humanitas Prize for Sundance Film Nominated—Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay Nominated—Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Original Screenplay Nominated—Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay
2004–2009	Scrubs	7 episodes
2008	Night Life	TV film

Discography

Year	Album	Notes
2004	Garden State	Compilation producer Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media

http://en.wikipedia.org

It's Film Strip Friday! Chicken Little

It’s Film Strip Friday!

Chicken Little

Release Date November 4^th, 2005

  

SYNOPSIS:

When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.    

FUN FACTS:

          Chicken Little is a 2005 American computer-animated sicience fiction family comedy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and loosely based on the fable The Sky Is Falling. The 46th animated film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics, the film was directed by Mark Dindal with screenplay by Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, and Ron Anderson, and story by Mark Kennedy and Dindal.

The film was animated in-house at Walt Disney Feature Animation's main headquarters in Burbank, California, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 4, 2005 in Digital 3-D format along with the standard 2-D version. It is Disney's first fully computer-animated film, as Pixar's films were distributed but not produced by Disney, and Dinosaur was a combination of live-action and computer animation. It premiered on the United States version of the Disney Channel on February 8, 2008, as part of "Phineas and Ferb-ruary".

Plot

In the small town of Oakey Oaks, Chicken Little rings the school bell and cries for everyone to run for their lives. This sends the whole town into a frenzied panic. Eventually they calm down enough to ask him what's wrong, and he explains that a piece of the sky shaped like a stop sign had fallen on his head when he was sitting under the big oak tree in the town square. However, he is unable to find the piece. His father, Buck Cluck, assumes that this "piece of sky" was just an acorn that had fallen off the tree and had hit him on the head. Chicken Little becomes the laughing stock of the town.

A year later, Chicken Little has become infamous in the town for being crazy. His only friends are outcasts like himself: Abby Mallard, who has a crush on him; Runt of the Litter, who is extremely large; and Fish Out of Water, who wears a helmet full of tap water.

Trying to help, Abby tells Chicken Little to talk to his father, but he really just wants his dad to be proud of him. Instead, he joins his school's baseball team in an attempt to recover his reputation and his father's pride, but is made last until the ninth inning of the last game. Chicken Little is reluctantly called to bat by the coach, even though he is certain that he will lose the game for them. Little is able to hit the ball and make it past first, second, and third bases but is met at home plate by the outfielders. He tries sliding onto home plate but is touched by the ball. It is presumed that he lost the game, but the umpire brushes away the dust to reveal that Chicken Little's foot was just barely touching home plate, thus declaring Little safe and the game won. Little is hailed as a hero for winning the pennant.

But that night back at home, he is hit on the head by the same "piece of the sky" — only to find out that it is not a piece of the sky but a device which blends into the background (which would thereby explain why Chicken Little was unable to find it last time). He calls his friends over to help figure out what it is.

When Fish pushes a button on the back of the hexagon it flies into the sky. It turns out to be part of the camouflage of an invisible UFO. Chicken Little manages to ring the bell to warn everyone, but the aliens see the crowds coming and manage to escape, leaving an orange alien child behind. No one believes the story of the alien invasion, and Chicken Little is ridiculed yet again until the next day. He and his friends discover the orange alien, and a few minutes later a whole fleet of alien ships descends on the town and start what appears to be an invasion.

The invasion is actually a misunderstanding, as two aliens are looking for their lost child and attack only out of concern. As the aliens rampage throughout Oakey Oaks, vaporizing everything in their path, Little realizes he must return the alien to his parents to save the planet. First, though, he must confront his father and regain his trust.

In the invasion, Buck, now regaining his pride and trust in his son, defends him from the aliens until they get vaporized. It is then discovered that the aliens weren't vaporizing people, the ray guns teleported them aboard the UFO. Afterwards, the aliens return everything (except Foxy Loxy, whose brain gets scrambled and she becomes a Southern belle and as a result, Runt falls for her) to normal, and everyone is grateful for Chicken Little's efforts to save the town.

Voice cast

• Zach Braff as Chicken Little Cluck, a young (an extremely small) rooster who suffers under a reputation for being crazy since he caused a panic saying the sky was falling. He makes up for his small size by being extremely creative, for example, using a roller window blind to get into his high locker. Little is constantly trying to impress his Dad.
• Joan Cusack as Abbagail Ducktail Mallard (also known as the Ugly Duckling), a female duck (implied swan) with buckteeth, and wearing a purple shirt and some hairbands. A slight speech impediment and a long, asymmetrical face earned her an unfortunate nickname from the less polite children. She is accustomed to being teased for her appearance, and takes a generally optimistic approach to life. She is Chicken Little's best friend and harbors a secret crush on him. Despite her appearance, because of her purple shirt and some hair bands and she is not wearing any pants, she is modeled after Gosalyn Mallard from Darkwing Duck.
• Dan Molina as Fish Out of Water, a goldfish who wears a scuba helmet filled with water and lives on the surface. He is unable to speak properly, instead making gurgling sounds and acting out what he feels. He isn't very shy around others and he will perform brave stunts without fear.
• Steve Zahn as Runt of the Litter, a large pig with a huge heart, Runt is much larger than the other children, but (unbelieveablely) is far smaller than the other massive members of his family. Runt is easily frightened and prone to panic. He's also a fan of Barbra Streisand (as when his mother told him to not make her take away his collection of Streisand's songs when she thought he was lying about the aliens invading the town).
• Amy Sedaris as Foxy Loxy, a mean, young vixen who is a baseball star and the "home town hero". She's also a tomboy and one of the "popular kids" at school. She bullies Chicken Little throughout the movie for causing the panic at the beginning. Her mind is altered during the alien attack, turning her into a much nicer Southern belle, and she is later seen in a romantic relationship with Runt. In the original fable as well as the 1943 short film, Foxy Loxy is a male fox. The character was made female for the feature film.
• Mark Walton as Goosey Loosey, a goose, and Foxy Loxy's best friend. Usually helps Foxy Loxy do her bullying. She speaks in quacks, honks, and squawks.
• Garry Marshall as Buck "Ace" Cluck, Chicken Little's widowed father, a former high school baseball star who has a hard time coming to terms with what it means being a good parent. Though he loves his son, most of the time he tries to apologize for his son's behavior and encourages him to keep a low profile. He was married to Chloe Cluck, Chicken Little's mother, but it is unknown what happened to her that causes to vanish in the movie.
• Don Knotts as Turkey Lurkey, a turkey who is the mayor of Oakey Oaks. He is sensible, but not very bright.
• Sean Elmore, Matthew Michael Joston, and Evan Dunn as Kirby, an energetic and hyper alien child who follows Chicken Little and hid friends and gets left beyhind on Earth. His parents, out of concern, trigger an alien invasion (which turned out to be a search party to look for him). In the end, he is returned to his family.
• Fred Willard as Melvin, Kirby's father and Tina's husband. He is the character that triggers an alien invasion and at the end is reunited with his son, and has something called the "Big Voice" he uses to interrogate people.
• Catherine O’Hara as Tina, Kirby's mother and Melvin's wife. She and Melvin land on Earth once a year on the way to her parents, and to collect acorns, but when Kirby went missing, Melvin triggered an invasion to retrieve their son.
• Mark Dindal as Morkubine Porcupine, one of the cool kids. He is the only cool kid that hangs out with Chicken Little and his friends. In the music video, he is seen dancing with them. He only ever seems to speak one word at a time.
• Patrick Stewart as Mr. Woolensworth, a sheep language teacher to the class, who is amazingly boring.

Production

New software and hardware tools were introduced for the production of the film:

• "Chicken Wire", a geometric wire frame model of the characters that the animators can stretch and squeeze as they please.
• "Shelf Control", which makes it possible to see the whole model on the screen while having a direct access to any chosen area of the character.
• New electronic tablet screens that allow the artists to draw digital sketches of the characters to rough out their movements, which is then transferred to the 3D characters.

At the time of the release of Chicken Little, the co-production deal between Disney and Pixar Animation Studios was set to expire with the release of Cars in 2006. The end result of the contentious negotiations between Disney and Pixar was viewed to depend heavily on how Chicken Little performed at the box office. If successful, the film would have given Disney leverage in its negotiations for a new contract to distribute Pixar's films. A failure would have allowed Pixar to argue that Disney could not produce CGI films without aid from Pixar. Discussions to renew the deal in 2005 were held off until both sides could assess Chicken Little's performance at the box office.

It is not known how the two sides regarded Chicken Little's modest success. While it underperformed compared to Pixar's product, it was more successful than Disney's recent output and was much more profitable for the company, since they did not need to share the revenue. Regardless, both sides decided that they were better off with each other than separate. However, instead of negotiating a new contract, on January 24, 2006, Disney announced their intent to purchase Pixar in an all-stock transaction worth $7.4 billion. The purchase was completed on May 5, 2006.^]

Reception

Box office

In its opening weekend, Chicken Little debuted at #1, the first Disney animated film to do so since Tarzan (1999), taking $40 million and tying with The Lion King (1994) as the largest opener for a Disney animated film. It also managed to claim #1 again in its second week of release, earning $31.7 million, beating Sony's sci-fi family film, Zathura. The film grossed $135,386,665 in the United States and Canada and grossed $179,046,172 in other countries grossing $314,432,837 worldwide.

This reversed a slump that the company had been facing since 2000, during which time it released several flops, most notably Treasure Planet (2002) and Home on the Range (2004). However, these movies received better critical reception.

Critical reception

Chicken Little received a poor reception from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 36% of critics gave positive reviews based on 153 reviews with an average score of 5.4/10. The critical consensus states "In its first non-Pixar CGI venture, Disney expends more effort in the technical presentation than in crafting an original storyline", for which critics panned the film. Another review aggretator, Metacritic gave the film an average score of 48 from 32 critics.

Richard Roeper of the then-Ebert & Roeper gave the film a "Thumbs Down" rating saying "I don't care whether the film is 2-D, 3-D, CGI, or hand-drawn, it all goes back to the story." A.O. Scott of the New York Times stated the film is "a hectic, uninspired pastiche of catchphrases and clichés, with very little wit, inspiration or originality to bring its frantically moving images to genuine life." However, Ty Burr of the Boston Globe gave the film a positive review saying the film was "shiny and peppy, with some solid laughs and dandy vocal performances". Angel Cohn of TV Guide gave the film 3 stars alluding the film that would "delight younger children with its bright colors and constant chaos, while adults are likely to be charmed by the witty banter, subtle one-liners and a sweet father-son relationship."

Home media

Chicken Little was first released on DVD on March 21, 2006, only in a single-disc edition. It was Disney's first animated film to receive a DVD-only release, as every Hollywood studio had phased out the VHS format in 2006. The first Blu-ray release of Chicken Little was on March 20, 2007, and contained new features that were not included in the 2006 DVD. A 3D Blue-ray version was released on November 8, 2011.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack album contains music by a wide range of artists, some musical veterans, such as Patti LaBelle and Diana Ross, as well as others. Uniquely for a Disney animated film, several of the songs are covers of classic popular songs, such as Elton John and Kiki Dee's "Don’t Go Breaking My Heart," Carole King's "It’s Too Late," and the Spice Girls’ signature hit "Wannabe." The soundtrack was released on November 1, 2005.

In one scene of the film, Runt sings Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", however it is not included on the soundtrack.

Track list:

No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Stir It Up"	Joss Stone and Patti LaBelle	3:42
2.	"One Little Slip"	Barenaked Ladies	2:53
3.	"Shake a Tail Feather"	The Cheetah Girls	3:05
4.	"All I Know"	Five For Fighting	3:25
5.	"Ain’t No Mountain High Enough"	Diana Ross	3:28
6.	"It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Fell Fine)"	R.E.M.	4:04
7.	"We Are the Champions"	Zach Braff	0:38
8.	"Wannabe"	Joan Cusack	0:50
9.	"Don’t Go Breaking My Heart"	The "Chicken Little" Cast	1:53
10.	"The Sky Is Falling (score)"	John Debney	2:49
11.	"The Big Game (score)"	John Debney	4:04
12.	"Dad Apologizes (score)"	John Debney	3:14
13.	"Chase to Cornfield (score)"	John Debney	2:00
14.	"Dodgeball (score)"	John Debney	1:15
15.	"Driving with Dad (score)"	John Debney	1:45
Total length:			39:05

Video games

Chicken Little spawned two video games. The first, Chicken Little, is a 2005 action-adventure video game released by Avalanche Software. It is for the 2 DS, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.

The second game, Disney's Chicken Little: Ace in Action, is a multi-platform video game, for the Nintendo DS, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 inspired by the "superhero movie within the movie" finale of the film. It features Ace, the superhero alter ego of Chicken Little, and the Hollywood versions of his misfit band of friends: Runt, Abby and Fish-Out-of-Water. The crew of the intergalactic Battle Barn faces off against Foxy Loxy and her evil Amazonian sidekick, Goosey Loosey, who have an evil plan to take over Earth. Battle evil alien robots through multiple levels across the solar system and combat your foes in one of three distinct game play modes: Ace on foot as a soldier, Runt as the driver of an armored tank, or Abby as the pilot of a spaceship. The original Chicken Little and his friends Abby, Runt, and Fish we know from the film are featured in cut scenes throughout the game.

Chicken Little also appears as a summon in the Kingdom Hearts series of video games.

Cultural references

The film contains many cultural references of movies. A fake opening is the same opening to The Lion King. There is even the actual footage of Indiana Jones being chased by the boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark. In the school gym, while fish fell from the paper Empire State Building, Runt says that beauty killed the beast in reference to King Kong's end. The little alien kid being left behind on earth is a reference to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The alien invasion has many similar shots to Independence Day and War of the Worlds, notably the shadow of the alien craft covering the city and the notion of vaporizing people. Product Placement in the film includes the Tic Tac candy, which the town's mayor is obsessed with, and the alien's violation code number is 90210, the ZIP code of Beverly Hills, California.

http://disney.go.com/disneyinsider/history/movies

http://en.wikipedia.org