. . . is right twice a year, and Disney's CHICKEN LITTLE accurately forecasts D.J. Trump's total eclipse of the Son. Disney casts the title character here as Lowest Common Denominator Trump, but the brains behind the curtain belong to the Steve Bannon-like Foxy Loxy, whose Bible is the Breitbart Playbook. As Bannon, Foxy guides Little's Trump into bamboozling his logically-challenged flock of mostly Red State Chickens. Little is the reigning local yo-yo champ, presaging Trump's hourly vacillations between Bad and Worse. Little proves to be inordinately proud that its dad Fred ran for the Presidency of the KKK, and that another Grand Imperial Gizzard (Beauregard Sessions, played here by Cocky Locky) is in charge of Making America White Again. Foxy soon lures all the Trumpster Chickens into his Death Cave, which becomes a graveyard of wishbones. This suggests that God will Punish our formerly Great USA for allowing its KKK takeover by having the sky fall on us (presumably, a North Korean EMP blast from Outer Space). As Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate bear out CHICKEN LITTLE's Cries of Doom, who could argue with the Disney folks?

I first watched this cartoon short when it was part of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, in an episode titled "Man Is His Own Worst Enemy." It was also my first time learning of the Chicken Little story. It was, honestly, a pretty sad story to watch, seeing Chicken Little and the rest of the bird family meeting an untimely fate in the hands of Foxy Loxy. Some of parts of the short was, though, pretty entertaining to see when Chicken Little and friends think the sky is falling, thereby, running around frantically. The characters were zany and the animation was great.Overall, it's not a bad story. It gives children a harsh reality that not every story has a happy ending and that life could be pretty complicated.Grade B-

The Disney shorts have seen a large number of classics and a lot of very good shorts too, there are very few that I didn't care for. Chicken Little(1943) is very different for Disney, who have rarely been more cynical or morbid, but here different equals great results. Chicken Little is terrific, maybe not quite one of the Disney masterpieces or among my personal favourites, but is bold well-made stuff and one of the better Disney shorts of the 40s. The animation is fluid and colourful, the backgrounds moving from frame to frame smoothly and the colours as vibrant and well-textured as you'd hope. The characters are well drawn too. The music is typically lush and energetic if ever so slightly repetitive. The writing can be much enjoyed, the gems being with Foxy Loxy and his psychology book dialogue. It will admittedly most likely go over children's heads but not over adults, who be impressed and amazed by how daring Chicken Little and how much of its content it manages to get away with, considering the time when it was made. The story is very true in detail to the original story but with a unusually twisted(especially for Disney) ending that will shock the viewer as much as it shocked the narrator. It also has a point that is made clearly and not heavy-handedly, and is as relevant now as it was then with stuff that parallelled WW2 and also parallels now(especially from a militaristic viewpoint). The characters carry the narrative very well and their personalities do stand out, the most memorable and entertaining by a mile being Foxy Loxy. While Frank Graham does a superb job voicing almost all the characters(Florence Gill and Clarence Nash do their distinctive hen and duck noises), particularly the narrator- the role of which is well written and doesn't try to explain too much- and Foxy Loxy. To conclude, terrific short that succeeds at doing something different from what Disney usually do. 10/10 Bethany Cox

'Chicken Little' is a Disney short about the story of a chick who thinks that the sky is falling, and no one believes him. I remember watching this when I was very young -- they used to show this on the Disney channel along with their other older cartoons and cartoon shorts. (I'm not sure if they still show it or not, but Disney have seemed to have moved away from showing their older cartoons.) Generally-speaking, this was a typical Disney animated story featuring a cute little chick and a basic storyline. As it has been years since I saw this, I don't remember too much about it other than the little chick running around saying that the sky was falling, over and over again...and no one believed him. I've since read that there were some political motives behind this cartoon, but I didn't know that when I watched it as a child.I just recently discovered that Disney are going to be reviving / remaking Chicken Little. I hope there are no bird flu jokes.