The Trailer of 'Despereaux'
Filed under: Animation, Universal, Family Films, Trailers and Clips
Disney has Pixar. Fox has Blue Sky. Paramount has, for now, Dreamworks. As seemingly the last studio to get into animated features, Universal has offered up the trailer for their maiden effort, The Tale of Despereaux, over at Yahoo! Movies.
Based upon the 2003 Newbury Award-winning novel by Kate DiCamillo, the film follows the adventurous antics of Despereaux (voiced by Matthew Broderick), a mouse with large ears and - I'm just guessing here - an even bigger heart, as he bucks the status quo of cowardice that seems to have imprisoned his kind to a fearsome existence.
Besides being an animated tale of a brave rodent with a tongue-tricky title and thus fated to merit comparison to those which have recently set lofty standards for similar fare, this project genuinely looks and sounds pleasant enough for all its yay-for-being-yourself familiarity. Besides, there's only more hope to be had when we're looking at a voice cast that includes the likes of Broderick, Kevin Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Sigourney Weaver, Stanley Tucci, William H. Macy, and Tony Hale, not to mention a Harry Potter veteran or two.
With its eye on the year-end holiday season, The Tale of Despereaux is scheduled to hit theaters on December 19th.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
6-28-2008 @ 3:24PM
Stan Winstone said...
Wow all I can say is I feel sorry for any company that isn't Pixar trying to do CG animated movies. They are the Mountain Dew to Coke...
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6-28-2008 @ 4:03PM
Jeremiah said...
egh.
Looks nothing like the book.
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6-29-2008 @ 1:59AM
FYROM said...
I don't think Pixar has the monopoly on cutting edge CGI that it did back in the 90s, but they're still well ahead of the other animation studios when it comes to storytelling.
That said, I wasn't all that impressed by the Despereaux trailer. Granted, it was just a 90 second spot, but the impression I received of the story seemed lacking compared to other stories about talking mice, such as The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, or the Rats of NIMH. Hopefully the full version will be more than "I'm different! Isn't that great!"
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6-30-2008 @ 9:08AM
Jimmy said...
Personally, I think Pixar is overrated. There are a lot of great animation films out there these days that are as good, and sometimes better, than what we've seen from Pixar in recent years.
As for this movie, I hope it does well. It's a great story with a great message about embracing what makes us all different and unique.
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7-03-2008 @ 12:02AM
Dyann said...
My niece absolutely adored the book; I only hope the movie follows the storyline. We read all the Harry Potter books and were so excited to see them on the big screen. All the way home from the theater and the following 3 weeks I heard about the many discrepancies in the movie. Getting kids to read these days is a challenge, anything that will cause them to WANT to read - to line up in bookstores at 1am- I say, "Don't change it!"
Oh well, at least the animation for Despereaux looks great.
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7-20-2008 @ 8:37PM
Linds said...
well its was okay,
still I was expecting something...more I guess.
Plus wouldn't you think a mouse's voice wouldn't
sound like a man's? I mean they should've had a young
boy do his voice after all before he even speaks you think
he's going to sound...well younger I guess.
Do you get what I mean?
Basiacly Despereaux's voice should be different
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