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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Dreamworks has found their next animated CG-project, and lest you it’s just another simple idea like a Panda who does Kung Fu, this one’s actually based on a book.  Though I should also mention: the book is 32 pages long and it’s about dinosaurs that are also trucks.

“Written by Chris Gall, Dinotrux takes place in a fictional [glad you specified -Ed] prehistoric age, when the world was ruled by creatures that were part trucks, part dinosaurs, with species like the Craneosauraus, Garbageadon and Tyrannosaurus Trux plowing and bulldozing their way across the terrain.” [Variety]

…And for millions of years, they were believed to be extinct. That is, until, SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY, at the Dubuque County Swap Meet and Tractor Pull, LIVE from the Jim Everett Memorial Coliseum…
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Disney released an extended clip from Bolt, which opens November 21st.  It features the voice of John Travolta as a dog from a TV show who thinks his show is real, until he escapes from the set to save a friend and eventually discovers he doesn’t have super powers. As you can see from my side-by-side comparison above, the humans in Bolt (left) look a lot like they did in Wall E. The dogs in the kennel are also pretty similar to the seagulls in Finding Nemo.  But I’m not criticizing, Wall E and Finding Nemo were f-cking amazing.  If you’re gonna steal, steal from the best.  It always looks bad when you steal something and it still sucks. Pulling a Mencia, I like to call it.

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First, I discover this month that Denmark is supposedly the happiest country in the world and now it seems some filmmakers there are putting out a reasonably funny animated comedy titled Journey to Saturn. Wonder what it’s about?

I’m not sure if I’m aware of any stereotypes of the Danish, other than they’re inferior to bear claws as a pastry. Judging from the trailer, with it’s lingering, humorous shots of the various countries of the world being scorced by rocket fuelled inferno, they’re a spiteful bunch. I can get with that. 

All that’s left is to fix their godawful language and find some way to dsassociate themselves with Hamlet. Little emo asshole. 

-Christmas Ape 

After the jump, I’ve got the trailer for Fly Me to Moon, which was supposedly attached to Wall-E, though not at the screening I was at (we were treated to Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which is like a bad acid trip on the order of the casino scene in Fear and Loathing if you’re high).

Anyway, you may notice that this is exactly like Space Chimps, but with flies. I hope I’m not the only one who notices the enormous disparity in quality between Pixar and the crap everyone else does.  Kung Fu Panda is supposedly decent, but even that – it’s a goddamned Panda who does Kung Fu.  Pretty much writes itself.  This is even worse.  It’s basically just the title of the Sinatra song literalized.  Someone got stoned and heard "Fly Me to the Moon" and thought, "Whooaa, man!  Flies, to the moon!  Like, what if they were actual flies!" 

It’s the same thing I did with Faster Pussycat yesterday.  Quick, someone start an animation studio so we can get all these great ideas to the screen! I envision literalized remakes of Eagle Eye, The House Bunny, the Curious Case of of Benjamin Button (starring an actual button), and Hancock!  …On second thought, scratch that last one.