History YMMV / ChickenLittle

* UncannyValley: Some of the character designs and movements, despite being heavily stylized, became this over the years due to the inevitably [[TechnologyMarchesOn dated CGI]].

* FanPreferredCutContent: There's a fully-animated DeletedScene where Mayor Turkey Lurkey gives Buck a pep-talk. A lot of fans found it more emotionally impactful and wished it stayed in the movie. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIGAuPMWNA4 here]].

** Runt of the Litter is one of the friendlier characters in the movie and while his complacency with Foxy's MindRape is certainly questionable, he's often described as though he'd done the deed himself so he could physically rape her.

** [[https://img.ifunny.co/images/80918fd3b66dc5be5d919448b548690c59d9f4e5291dce0d3864493c558c4719_1.webp A fake image]] of an edit of Buck Cluck's Wiki page talking about how Buck is a CompleteMonster who enjoys torturing his son, has committed several crimes, including [[TilMurderDoUsPart killing his wife]].

** [[https://img.ifunny.co/images/80918fd3b66dc5be5d919448b548690c59d9f4e5291dce0d3864493c558c4719_1.webp A fake image]] of an edit of Buck Cluck's Wiki page talking about how Buck is a horrible individual who enjoys torturing his son.

* MagnificentBastard: [[CunningLikeAFox Foxy Loxy]] desires to eat all of the birds from a nearby farmhouse. Prevented from getting in by force, he turns to a psychology book to manipulate the foolish Chicken Little into thinking [[MistakenForApocalypse the sky is falling]]. When his plan is foiled by Cocky Locky, the birds' leader, Foxy uses disguises and rumors to make the others think he's unfit to lead, then encourages Chicken Little to declare himself leader. Foxy uses another piece of "sky" to discredit Cocky Locky and tricks Chicken Little into luring the birds to his cave, where [[TheBadGuyWins he successfully eats them all]]. Foxy Loxy stands out as one of the shrewdest Disney villains in this cautionary tale of hysteria.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Aside from Chicken Little and his friends, literally everyone in town are unlikable bullies and jerks, including Little's own father, who won't stand up for his son when he's made an outcast. After watching them make Little's life a living hell for two-thirds of the movie, even when the movie finally reaches its climax, it's hard to care about the town getting besieged by an alien invasion.

* CatharsisFactor:
** After seeing how horrible and cruel the Townsfolk were to Chicken Little, it's incredibly satisfying to watch them getting terrorized and vaporized by the Aliens later in the movie.
** In the video game adaptation, one level has you enacting out the dodgeball scene... where you promptly get to beat the snot out of all the highly unlikable "popular kids". It is every bit as satisfying and stress relieving as it sounds.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game based on the movie is heralded as an enjoyable platformer in its own right. Some would even go as far as to say it's better than the movie itself.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Though the narrator in the original version of the short is shocked by Foxy Loxy winning, most versions of the fairy tale actually end up with everyone (except, in some cases, Chicken Little) being eaten; only the most "Disneyfied" versions have them all get away safe. This may be why Jiminy Cricket's narration of the ending is far more cynical.

** Buck, notoriously so. The movie's writing makes him come off as [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] and [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unsympathetic jerk]] who doesn't come to his son's aid when he needs it, and [[ItsAllAboutMe only doesn't act embarrassed about his son's very existence when Chicken does something heroic]]. However, the movie also makes it clear that he's never outwardly or intentionally abusive and that this is the best he can do given his circumstances, being a widower raising a paranoiac child by himself, and he does eventually see the error of his ways. An extreme VocalMinority of people on the internet (especially critics), however, depicted him as an [[TheSociopath abusive sociopath]] with no redeeming qualities, sometimes labeling him ''one of the most evil Disney characters'' or even ''the most {{Abusive Parent|s}} in all of fiction'', somehow beating out the likes of [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Judge Claude Frollo]], [[Anime/KillLaKill Ragyo Kiryuin]], [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Shou Tucker]], and [[Franchise/BlazBlue Relius Clover]] for the title. The character's [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Buck_Cluck?action=history Disney Wiki]] page had an ongoing Administrivia/EditWar between ticked-off viewers categorizing him as the villain and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk adding "neglecting his son" to the list of things he likes]] and admins struggling to keep the page neutral.[[note]]This reputation largely grew out of WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter's review of the film, as he famously has a zero-tolerance policy for whatever he considers to be poor depictions of abuse and bullying in fiction, having grown up with an abusive father and enduring bullying well into adulthood.[[/note]]

* TheScrappy: Buck Cluck. He neglects his son's well being in favor of his own reputation and only comes around after he's done something that he can benefit his public image with. A lot of people found his treatment of Chicken Little not only bad, but that it would emotionally scar most children, so much that they never forgave him for what he did in the movie, despite realizing how wrong he was and trying to make up for it in the end.

*** If they could've kept Buck Cluck's motivation of wishing his child to be normal like everyone else, it would've be understandable for the character. But instead, he cares more of his town reputation rather than his son's feelings and beliefs, and he's depressed by the loss of his wife. Lame.

* DorkAge: The end result of the studio's worst one since ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'' and was universally considered the lowest point for the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon. The good news is [[AuthorsSavingThrow the studio finally took notice and did something about it]].

* WhatAnIdiot:
** A chicken rings the bell and tells everyone that the sky is falling? You better believe him on the spot, even if you can check his claims yourself by simply ''looking up''.
** When the aliens invade Oakey Oaks, Foxy Loxy [[BullyingADragon throws a rock at one of them]] instead of just getting away. As a result, she's zapped by them.

* {{Anvilicous}}: The movie is not subtle at all when it comes to portraying its message. That you should not believe everything you hear, and as a result, let yourself be guided by rumours and don't blindly follow others without reason.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Buck Cluck, who wants to do right by his son, is guilty of continuous ParentalNeglect as his son suffers from AllOfTheOtherReindeer. Even though the actual antagonists are aliens causing problems on Earth, what makes them better than Buck was that they were just trying to find the lost alien child Kirby. Many fans see Buck as a detestable AbusiveParent of the caliber of [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Lady Tremaine]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Claude Frollo]].

** Buck, notoriously so. The movie's writing makes him come off as [[ParentalNeglect neglectful]] and [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unsympathetic jerk]] who doesn't come to his son's aid when he needs it, and [[ItsAllAboutMe only doesn't act embarrassed about his son's very existence when Chicken does something heroic]]. However, the movie also makes it clear that he's never outwardly or intentionally abusive and that this is the best he can do given his circumstances, being a widower raising a paranoiac child by himself, and he does eventually see the error of his ways. An extreme VocalMinority of people on the internet (especially critics), however, depicted him as an [[TheSociopath abusive sociopath]] with no redeeming qualities, sometimes labeling him ''one of the most evil Disney characters'' or even ''the most {{Abusive Parent|s}} in all of fiction'', somehow beating out the likes of [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Judge Claude Frollo]], [[Anime/KillLaKill Ragyo Kiryuin]], [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Shou Tucker]], and [[Franchise/BlazBlue Relius Clover]] for the title. The character's [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Buck_Cluck?action=history Disney Wiki]] page had an ongoing Administrivia/EditWar between ticked-off viewers categorizing him as the villain and [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk adding "neglecting his son" to the list of things he likes]] and admins struggling to keep the page neutral.[[note]]This reputation largely grew out of WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter's review of the film, as he famously has a zero-tolerance policy for whatever he considers to be poor depictions of abuse and bullying in fiction, having grown up with an abusive father and enduring bullying well into adulthood.[[/note]]

** In one of the alternate openings, when Chicken Little gets stuck in his mail slot when trying to avoid some news reporters, Buck pops in to help him get out. One of the newscasters asks him how he feels about the upcoming movie they were making out of Chicken Little, another one asks him who should play his part. One of the newscasters then asks if "Creator/SeanPenn Sean Penguin]]" should portray him. 11 years later, Penn himself would go on to star in [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie another movie where the main character is a bird.]]

** In one of the alternate openings, when Chicken Little gets stuck in his mail slot when trying to avoid some news reporters, Buck pops in to help him get out. One of the newscasters asks him how he feels about the upcoming movie they were making out of Chicken Little, another one asks him who should play his part. One of the newscasters then asks if "Creator/SeanPenn Sean Penguin" should portray him. 11 years later, Penn himself would go on to star in [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie another movie where the main character is a bird.]]

* In one of the alternate openings, when Chicken Little gets stuck in his mail slot when trying to avoid some news reporters, Buck pops in to help him get out. One of the newscasters asks him how he feels about the upcoming movie they were making out of Chicken Little, another one asks him who should play his part. One of the newscasters then asks if "[[Creator/SeanPenn Sean Penguin" should portray him. 11 years later, Penn himself would go on to star in [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie another movie where the main character is a bird.]]

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game based on the movie is heralded as an enjoyable platformer in its own right. Some would even go as far as to say it's better than the movie itself. This might be part of the reason as to why the game was made backwards compatible on the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS in November 2021.

*** If they could've kept Buck Cluck motivation of wishing his child to be normal like everyone else, it would've be understandable for the character. But instead, he cares more of his town reputation rather than his son's feelings and beliefs, and he's depressed by the loss of his wife. Lame.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game based on the movie is heralded as an enjoyable platformer in its own right. Some would even go as far as to say it's better than the movie itself.

* NightmareFuel: The very disturbing ending where the fox devours every chicken, duck, and turkey. When the narrator asks him "Hey, wait a minute! This isn't right, that's not the way the story is supposed to end!", the fox just calmly tells him not to believe everything he reads.
** Made more disturbing when you think about what it would be like to be in their shoes, panicking, crowded, trapped in a dark cave with a large (to them) carnivore that going to kill and eat them all, and they can't do a thing about it, and no help is coming.

* CriticProof: Professional critics and Disney fans considered it the worst film of the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, yet it was the studio's biggest domestic hit since the much-more-popular ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', earning $135 million at the domestic box office and $314 million worldwide (their biggest worldwide hit since ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}'')

* FanonDiscontinuity: There are people who pretend this film is not made by Disney (despite the Walt Disney Pictures logo showing up) and instead look at it as a Spiritual film from Creator/DreamWorks due to its pop culture references and snarky humor that happens to have Disney's name in it

* FanonDiscontinuity: There are people who pretend this film is not made by Disney (despite the Walt Disney Pictures logo showing up) and instead look it at it as a Spiritual film from Creator/DreamWorks due to its pop culture references and snarky humor that happens to have Disney's name in it

* StrangledByTheRedString: Chicken Little and Abby. There were quite literally no hints that the two were attracted to each other even before TheBigDamnKiss, and even after that, they hardly interact during the climax and they only really hold hands once during the final scene.