This One Belongs To The Kiddies

We talked Friday about that board game-based flick Zathura and how bloggers were all over the map on it, and it made $14 million this weekend in second place at the box office. That's about right for one of these contemporary flicks, with their low-grossing openings and quick banishments to DVD. But the real story is Disney's computer-animated non-fable Chicken Little, which is in its second week of release and so far has made $80.7 million. (Full report is here.) A kid's movie about some computer-animated farm animals who evidently are invaded by those aliens from the gumball machine in Toy Story, it represents one of the most lucrative pictures we've seen since we've been doing this — all the more interesting because people don't seem to like it that much. The Circus Trilogy has the box-office-take story and reacts this way: "Well, whatever it is, it still doesn't change my impression of "Chicken Little" — rather, the title character — as being a really irritating movie. Bleah." Bleah? Devastating. But a corollary follows. This 25 year-old Ohio mother saw it with her kids and wrote, "It was very cute. The girls really enjoyed it! Me too." Ah hah! Enough American children wanted to see that bespectacled, golf ball-headed little squab that it was the top movie two weeks in a row... and they're kids too young to have blogs. (That's how it slipped under the blogdar.) But y'know, kids, you're never too young to have a blog. We can call them "klogs," for kid-blogs.

Posted by Philip Ewing at November 14, 2005 10:11 AM

Category: Moving Pictures