Yaaay Muppets. As someone who didn't grow up with the show (and who went to see the movie with people who had), I can say it was certainly successful in appealing to both audiences. Of course, I'm also a Flight of the Conchords fan and appreciated it a lot on that level as well. :P
I didn't like the newer trailer for Brave; I was really hyped when the teaser came out and the premise was more vague, but at this point it's looking a lot like Mulan meets... idk, Shrek maybe? People are going to doubtlessly compare it to How to Train Your Dragon, but based on this trailer it looks like Dreamworks will have ended up making the more Pixar-like film, ironically enough. Although looking back, Pixar has gone pretty shameless for trailer fuel before. The WALL-E trailer made sure to include the scene where he's examining the bra, and Up's trailer skewed a lot more kid-oriented than the movie ended up being. Someone made a post somewhere about the fact that Pixar's best moments just don't lend themselves to trailers. But considering their reputation, I don't see why their marketing team thinks they still have to go that direction for the trailers. Well, I'll still see it, which is more than I can say for Cars 2.
I think Pixar's stylized human characters (Carl, the Incredibles, a few of the characters from Ratatouille) look fine-- it's when they go for a more realistic effect that it starts looking weird. Thankfully their Uncanny Valley levels have improved drastically since Toy Story 2. Or Tin Toy. That baby is the stuff of nightmares. ._.
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Date: 2012-01-02 02:18 am (UTC)I didn't like the newer trailer for Brave; I was really hyped when the teaser came out and the premise was more vague, but at this point it's looking a lot like Mulan meets... idk, Shrek maybe? People are going to doubtlessly compare it to How to Train Your Dragon, but based on this trailer it looks like Dreamworks will have ended up making the more Pixar-like film, ironically enough. Although looking back, Pixar has gone pretty shameless for trailer fuel before. The WALL-E trailer made sure to include the scene where he's examining the bra, and Up's trailer skewed a lot more kid-oriented than the movie ended up being. Someone made a post somewhere about the fact that Pixar's best moments just don't lend themselves to trailers. But considering their reputation, I don't see why their marketing team thinks they still have to go that direction for the trailers. Well, I'll still see it, which is more than I can say for Cars 2.
I think Pixar's stylized human characters (Carl, the Incredibles, a few of the characters from Ratatouille) look fine-- it's when they go for a more realistic effect that it starts looking weird. Thankfully their Uncanny Valley levels have improved drastically since Toy Story 2. Or Tin Toy. That baby is the stuff of nightmares. ._.