I took my boys along with neighbor friends to see Chicken Little today. I found it very entertaining and funny. Lots of humor that was at different levels.
Entertainment Weekly had the movie at the top of their Worst of 2005 list. Why?! It did have a lot of familiar Disney stuff in it. Dead mother, a given for Disney. Father who didn't believe in his son, a la Finding Nemo. But it had very new, exciting, timely stuff too.
So I am going to say ~pffft~ to Entertainment Weekly and recommend it as a good movie to take the family to.