So if you haven't seen the movie Moana yet, you need to get yourself to a theatre and see the movie. It is SO GOOD. The music, the story, the characters, everything about makes it a must see. Plus, it might help you understand this article a little bit more.
In the movie, Moana travels across the ocean to save her village and basically the entire land in order to return this stone known as the Heart of Te Fiti. Before she leaves, we get acquainted with her family, the rest of the people in the village, and her cute pet pig Pua. However, there is someone that is truly unforgettable among them all.
Enter in Heihei.
Heihei is this skinny little chicken who is basically the village idiot. Apparently Moana saved him from the chopping block, and she never really planned for him to come along with her on the journey across the sea. He just kinda showed up on the boat. Now, when I say he is the village idiot, he really is the village idiot. He can't tell the difference between his food (seeds) and rocks. He will swallow a very large rock if it's put in front of him. He has no survival instinct whatsoever and he will walk into the water, almost committing unintentional suicide if Moana doesn't save him. I can tell ya that when I was watching Moana, Heihei was probably the main reason why I was laughing. This chicken is so stupid, it's so funny.
Now let's think about this for a second. In every Disney Princess movie, there is an animal sidekick that makes the adventure much more memorable. Disney has given us Mushu from Mulan, Jacque and Gus from Cinderella, Meeko from Pocahontas, Sven from Frozen, and many others I know I'm forgetting. All of these sidekicks have some intelligence inside of them. In fact, Heihei was originally going to end up just like those characters; he was actually supposed to be really smart and extremely sassy. He almost didn't make the movie and the story team had to figure out a way to "save the chicken". They decided to make him a character that the I.Q. fairy did not visit, and thank Godthey did. This is the first Disney movie to give us an animal sidekick that is dumb as a bag of rocks, and that's what makes him so lovable.
