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Chicken Little (1943)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

This famous tale takes a different meaning as Disney used the classic story for a WWII propaganda short. A fox plans to not catch one chicken but instead catch them all so he locates the dumbest one and tells him that the sky is falling. Soon the rest of the chickens are in a panic thinking disaster really is coming. As the war went on, the studios were becoming much darker in some of the films they released and that included Disney and their children programs. This eight minute short has the famous tale that most people are going to know but what makes this version so good is the incredibly dark and sinister ending. I'm certainly not going to spoil the ending but it packs a punch even when seen today and there's no question that the studio had a message to deliver. The fox character was extremely well-written and there's no doubt that the animation was quite good. Fans of these types of animated films will certainly enjoy it.

At first i didn't know there was a 1943 short of the same title called Chicken Little even though Chicken Little had a movie back in 2005 also known as the movie that got so much hate just like Home On The Range back in 2004 and Cars 2 the third hated movie from 2011. I still like Home On The Range, Chicken Little and Cars 2 but that doesn't mean you need to take it to the extreme and treat it like it's worse than Hitler, not trying to sound like an opinion basher and i think the worst movie made by Disney is The Wild also known as the worst movie from 2006 which The Wild is a rip-off to Madagascar and the other worst Disney movie ever from 2008 is The Little Mermaid Ariel's Beginning and many more unnecesary sequels from Disneytoon Studios since it shutted down in 2018.

To really understand this cartoon you will need to know who was the main masters of propaganda of communism, like Antonio Gramsci, Lenin, Marx etc. All the lines read from the RED book are instruction of how insert ideas in the minds of the society, taken from the books written by these socialists. It is a manual of a Cultural War, and the western Christian world is right now loosing this war.See this: "Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society."

I remember reading the 'Chicken Little' book as a child but this cartoon turns it on its head with one eye on the time it was made, 1943, during the Second World War.

The sly and hungry Foxy Loxy reads from a text which describes how to lie and cheat your neighbours - in this case to persuade Chicken Little and others than the sky is falling, and so the world is about to end.

It showcases the power of propaganda, panic and persuasion to achieve an aim (Foxy of course wants a hearty supper of chickens and ducks). Cocky Locky is the political leader who gets depicted as a fool, while Henny Penny and her cronies spread gossip and hysteria.

A clever cartoon, perhaps too sophisticated for children, but enjoyable on some levels to a younger audience with a bit of forethought, a bit like 'Animal Farm'.

True to the original story and filled with metaphors about Nazi Germany, this short film is an animated masterpiece. Disney has made a good animated short that is not like what we are used to seeing, but touches on a much more serious real issue. We have an ingenious antagonist whose weapon he possesses is psychology and it can already be seen that this short film touches on themes such as manipulation and mass hysteria. It is very well managed, adding the cute animation and the innocent characters that give this short a childish appearance, but with a tremendous message hidden behind it. It is certainly a valuable relic. My rating for this short film is 8/10.