Chicken Licken

Chicken Licken is a 1992 animated-musical-comedy film produced by MacNamara-Pierre Pictures and distributed by Olympus Distribution around the world except in Canada, where it was distributed by Rufus Pictures. The MacNamara-Pierre's 12th animated feature, the film was directed by Loïc Schaeffer and produced by Sara Taylor and Melody McCoy, from a screenplay written by Cameron Roth and Xavier Thatcher. The film is featured by Ellis Murphy, Addyson Rosa, Billy Duffy, Leslie Benjamin, Lizbeth Cote, Memphis Pace, Taylor Booth, Jionni Holland, Mya Cole, Killian Knapp, Elena Welch. Its soundtrack was composed and scores by Jamaican film score composer Shannel Sowley, who also wrote the film songs.

Set in 1950's Europe, the film is an adaptation of the European folk tale of the same name, and mixes features of the original tale with new plots, including a new ending to the story, where the protagonist matures and creates a sense of the trap he got into, after being easily deceived by the fox Foxy Loxy, who this time is more evil than in the original tale, and even commits kidnappings to prevent other characters from telling Chicken the truth. Foxy Loxy is also more severe in her plan, seeking to kill Licken and her impaled friends and then fry them, and in case of ration, will kill anyone who reacts by suffocating. Loxy tricks Chicken by throwing a nut on his head, and claiming the false rumor that the world would be near the end, and that heaven would fall on everyone, and that he should warn everyone.

was released on June 24, 1992, being welcomed by critics and the public for the mastery with which they adapted and improved the European folk tale, this animation is also the most popular adaptation of the tale to the point of surpassing even the original version. Chicken was the second-highest-grossing film in MacNamara-Pierre history until 1997, when that title was passed to Huusild, which lost the title of top-grossing film in the studio's history to Strange Miracle. However, did not repeat the feat of having a large number of nominations for awards, as well as its predecessor, but still won two Oscars, one of which being a special category, and 4 Golden Globes.

Plot
Foxy Loxy is a wise and deceitful fox who lives in a forest next to a large farm, in this place turkeys, chickens, roosters, geese and other animals such as pigs and even mice live harmoniously and in a life without many worries. There also lives Chicken Licken, who is superstitious and paranoid, as well as quite naive. One day the chicken is resting under a tree, where Loxy is lying on a branch, and upon noticing the presence of the chicken, she has a plan to use it as a scapegoat, so that she can devour all the birds present in the farm, in a plan that has been building for some time.

Foxy throws a nut at Chicken's head (which gives rise to the movie poster, where countless nuts fall from the sky), who naively despairs over the situation, the fox taking advantage of the chicken's reaction decides to tell him the false news that the world would be coming to an end, and that the sky would fall on top from everyone, and says that this was a sign to Licken to save all the friends, and says that the right thing to do on that occasion would be to warn everyone of the "end of the world". Chicken first goes to the lake, where he tells Ducky Lucky what happened, leaving her confused and scared, she then joins Chicken to warn the other animals, but when they arrive at the farm they are contained by running madly, and making the biggest fuss in the yard. Soon afterwards they are questioned by Cocky Locky for making such a ruckus, and they say that they wanted to warn everyone that the sky would fall and the world would come to an end, which leads to everyone bursting out laughing with Chicken and Ducky's report.

The next day, Licken and Lucky are hanging out in the shade of the tree where Loxy tricked the chicken the day before, and are increasingly worried about what to do to alert their friends. They are then Layla Rat about why they are so negative, Chicken then talks about what happened the day before, Layla then counters why it happened to him and while nothing happened to the others, including Ducky. Foxy then appears from behind a bush, and retorts the mouse calling her a heretic, telling her that she should regret doubting what is in plain sight, after sending her away from the place, Foxy asks why that sadness, Licken then replies that no one believed him except Lucky, who was the only one who reached out to help him.

Upon discovering that, the fox then sees that there was no point in deceiving Chicken if he did not deceive others and for that he sends the chicken and the duck to the farm, meanwhile Layla secretly follows Loxy, and discovers that he is the one who threw the nut on Chicken's head. Loxy then decides to throw a nut at the head of Goose Loose, a goose of surprising credibility among farm animals. Goose is in a pasture reading a book, when Loxy throws a nut at Goose's head, and seeing him confused, tells the same news he told Licken. Goose is then completely scared of such a possibility, and upon arriving at the farm, where Licken, upon seeing him, talks about the rumor he was induced to believe. the goose then says that he was also warned by Fozy for this, which makes Chicken celebrate knowing that he can use Loose as his weapon to spread the news of the "end of the world" he received.

So then they go back to meet Cocky Locky, and talks again about the rumor he told the rooster earlier, again Locky refuses to believe the rumor, but Goose then says that the same thing happened to him, the rooster then begins to deposit his veracity about the news after Loose's speech, Cocky then decides to believe it and if what they say is true, he will alert everyone. In the next day, Licken is telling Goose and Locky about the moment the nut landed on his head, Foxy then again throws another two nuts, one at Ducky Lucky and the other at Cocky, who are terrified to personally experience such an "event". Foxy then again introduces herself and criticizes Locky, for having been a denialist until that moment and he tells the same that he should have believed before, and thanks to him the deadline is getting tighter and tighter, and tells to the group they still need to alert a bird, which is the most peaceful and carefree of all, Turkey Lurkey and next to him his inseparable friend Hen Pen. They then desperately go and tell the two friends, while mocking the naivety of each, mainly Licken, he notices that Layla Rat is watching, and then seeing her as a possible destroyer of his plan, he goes up to Laya and kidnaps her, throwing her into a deep hole in the middle of the forest.