Right wing of Chicken?

Chicken Little has always been a handy touchstone for right wingers (see previous post), as an image of ill-informed, hysterical alarmism on climate change, etc. Looking at the website for Disney's new animated feature Chicken Little, one begins to wonder if some subtle satire - possibly conservative in character - is at work. It's a perfect pastiche of news websites, and bristles with apocalyptic links and sidebars about disasters, conspiracy theories, paranoia, and spreading the word about the end of the world. Of course, this could just be a kind of catch-all pop-culture playfulness, but given the recent attempts by some to claim features like The Incredibles and Finding Nemo as parables of conservative values, I will be even more interested to catch up with Chicken Little.

On a less cheerful note, it appears that some roles in Chicken Little will be re-voiced by Australian actors for the local release. I can't say how disappointing it is, to be treated like some kind of provincial halfwit who will have a brain haemhorrage if he hears an unfamiliar accent. Have Disney been listening to Rachel Griffiths and Toni Collette, maybe?