Hype here, hype there

I went to watch the highly anticipated movie, Chicken Little, last week. Judging from all the hype and advertisements, I thought the movie would be pretty good. Much to my dismay, it was at best - a comedy; at worst - a blatant waste of resources (money, time, etc) to showcase some animated characters with a recycled plot.

The storyline is amazingly similar to that of Finding Nemo. In short, Chicken Little can be summarized in 5 points:

1) Dad and son duo living happily; Mom is not around (as in dead or something of the like)
2) Dad loves son and son loves dad.
3) Dad doesn't trust son while son feels that Dad shouldn't be behaving like that.
4) Son gets into some deep shit; Dad finally believes in son.
5) Dad and son duo join hands and save the day.

There you have it. It's the same old plot borrowed from Finding Nemo, only that now the story revolves around poultry, rather than fish.

In both movies, Mom is not present. For Finding Nemo, she was consumed as a tasty snack in first few minutes of the show. In Chicken Little, all that was shown was a monochrome portraint; I assumed her dead too. So what we have left here is the Dad/son pair trying to get along with life. Then again, why must it always be this setup? I mean, do fathers and sons really don't get along well?

The movies seem to imply that fathers and sons often, if not always, don't see eye to eye and the catalyst for them to bond closely would be some major catastrophe. So, I suppose mothers get along perfectly well with their kids then? *rolls eyes*

Perhaps I was expecting too much after all.