If you went to watch Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs at the theaters, chances are you might have caught the second trailer for Ilion Studios' Planet 51. Its a sci-fi animated comedy that has been on my radar for so long. With animation that looks just as good as any other heavyweight studios, Ilion from Spain may prove to be a major contender.
Planet 51 is a galactic sized animated alien adventure comedy revolving around American astronaut Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker, who lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first person to step foot on it. To his surprise, he finds that this planet is inhabited by little green people who are happily living in a white picket fence world reminiscent of a cheerfully innocent 1950s America, and whose only fear is that it will be overrun by alien invaders...like Chuck! With the help of his robot companion "Rover" and his new friend Lem, Chuck must navigate his way through the dazzling, but bewildering, landscape of Planet 51 in order to escape becoming a permanent part of the Planet 51 Alien Invaders Space Museum.
The release date is on November 20th. You'll find both the trailers below after the break
Trailer
Teaser
That looks truly awful.
"But it's for kids!"
Your kids deserve better than an role-reversed (we're the aliens OMG!) rip-off of IRON GIANT and E.T. Bring on NOCTURNA - oh wait, no US distributor...
Speaking of Nocturna, I took my son to see it when it screened at the Toronto Film Fest and he really liked it. Anybody know of an english friendly edition anywhere?
This could be The Rock's best acting to date, because that astronaut sounds nothing at all like he usually does!
Meanwhile, I agree that the movie looks pretty lame, if extremely well crafted.
Smaller companies are catching up to Dreamworks and Pixar on the visuals.
And what is Nocturne? google here I come...