With Shark Tale’s fish taking a CGI elevator into theaters this Friday, it’s time for DreamWorks and Fox to start pushing all the other CGI projects they have on unsuspecting audiences. To do so, the two studios have released the first trailers for both Robots and Madagascar on the web. I saw them both in front of my Shark Tale screening Tuesday, so it’s a good bet that you may also be able to see them in theaters should you be cursed enough to have to watch the Funky Fresh Fish of Bel Aire this weekend.
Robin Williams returns to voicing hilarious animated characters in Robots only the trailer for the movie doesn’t make him seem all that funny. He was SO great as the Genie, but I’m not sold on this one. He keeps falling apart! Ha! That’s um… yeah I guess that’s supposed to be funny. The animation on this look ok, but sometimes it almost seems too busy, and the robots get lost in all the billions of things going on around them. I love robots, and maybe if this one had some GIANT FREAKIN ones I’d be sold on it, but it doesn’t so till they show me some, it looks fairly bad.
The Madagascar trailer makes the movie look a bit like a big screen version of that terrible new television show “Father of the Pride”. You know, the CGI one with John Goodman as one of Siegfried and Roy’s non-man eating lions? The difference is that this movie doesn’t have Siegfried and Roy, which is bad since those guys are the only funny thing about that terrible show. Look, after the crappiness of Shark Tale I’m pretty skeptical about anything DreamWorks has planned that doesn’t have the name Shrek on it, but of the two CGI trailers, Madagascar is without a doubt the best. It’s funny, it has monkeys, I didn’t mind it. The movie could be alright in a wacky sort of way.
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