(Update: I put the trailer after the jump to make the page load faster)
Pixar consistently blows my mind with their stories and melts my face off with their animation, while the rest of the animation world does 15 variations on chihuahuas eating tacos and kangaroos that box. But this trailer for Despicable Me (from Universal and Illumination Entertainment) looks promising. If only because it kept making me go “Wha?” and I still don’t know what it’s about. Here’s the official rundown:
In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army of minions, we discover Gru planning the biggest heist in the history of the world. He is going to steal the moon, yes, the moon. Gru delights in all things wicked. Armed with his arsenal of shrink rays, freeze rays, and battle-ready vehicles for land and air, he vanquishes all who stand in his way. Until the day he encounters the immense will of three little orphaned girls who look at him and see something that no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad. [Yahoo]
Aw, how cute, it’s a metaphor for dating a stripper. I stuff my dollars inside the hole in their heart.
JoBlo just posted this video of Destino, a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney (who no doubt bonded over their mutual love of fascism).
Destino began in 1946 as a collaboration between Walt Disney and the famed surrealist painter Salvador Dali. A first-hand example of Disney’s interest in avant garde and experimental work in animation, Destino was to be awash with Dali’s iconic melting clocks, marching ants and floating eyeballs. However, Destino was not completed at that time. In 2003 it was rediscovered by Walt’s nephew, Roy E. Disney, who took on the challenge of bringing the creation of these two great artists to fruition.
Yep, looks pretty much like an animated version of a Dali painting. GRR, STUFF TURNING INTO OTHER STUFF! What I’d really like to see is a collaboration between an old Chuck Jones cartoon and the people who made that Japanese horror film from yesterday. Like, maybe the roadrunner would trick the coyote by turning into a painting of a penis that ejaculates ninja stars. Because roadrunner very clever, you see.
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If you’ve seen Up, you know it comes attached to a short called Partly Cloudy, one of the most insanely creative things I’ve ever seen. 
It’s about clouds who synthesize kitties and puppies and give them to storks, who… oh just watch it after the jump, there’s no way to explain it. But not to be outdone, Dreamworks animation has announced their next project.
The project, referred to internally as “Boo U.,” recently picked up writer Jon Vitti (”The Simpsons Movie”), who will pen the screenplay. The story line centers on a ghost who is bad at his job and must return to ghost school. [THR]
Haha, ghost school! WTF?!? LOL!!1! You’ve done it again, Salieri!
Here are three new clips from Pixar’s Up, which opens May 29th (keep you ears peeled for Patton Oswalt’s voice as the TV announcer in the first one)*. The old guy is voiced by Ed Asner and, because it’s Disney-Pixar and not Disney, the kid is voiced by newcomer Jordan Nagai. Rest assured that if it was Disney, the kid would be a Jonas brother or a Cyrus sibling or some little sh-t from Nickelodeon with Zac Efron hair. Anyway, the bottom two clips are featurettes, which aren’t as interesting because it’s just nerds talking about their drawings. Get back in your hole, nerd! Draw me another adorable robot!
*Correction, apparently it’s actually this guy. Thanks to LucasRuinedMyChildhood for the tip. (A confuse people for Patton all the time. It’s normal to hear his voice when you sleep, right?)
This trailer for Sony’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, based on the children’s book, was sent to me by FilmDrunkard Adam, who writes:
Thank you, Sony, for totally raping one of my favorite childhood story books. I don’t think they could have veered any FURTHER from the original story even if they added a racist, talking kangaroo who likes to punch down syndrome babies as the main character. If you never read the original book as a kid, watch the trailer for Schindlers List, as that is a closer adaptation of this childrens book than this abortion of a movie.
As for me, I’ve never read the book. And since this isn’t a Pixar movie and the (3-D!!!) animation looks kind of crappy, I care about as much about this as I did about Delgo. For more information, stay tuned to FilmDrunk, your source for news we can barely be bothered to report (we have two anchors, one to read the news and the other to make dismissive wank motions about it the whole time).
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