I think it’s safe to safe having watched the trailer for Top Cat Begins, that the digital artists at the likes of Pixar, Dreamworks Animation, Illumination and Blu Sky aren’t going to be worried that the makers of this new movie are going to blow them out of the water with the quality of their CGI. In fact all the background characters look oddly like zombies.
However, that doesn’t mean the kids won’t like this new take on the classic 1960s cartoon, and it’s a step up from the odd part CG, part hand-drawn world of 2011’s Top Cat: The Movie. It might also be a surprise that both these recent Top Cat movies are actually Mexican production.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Tracing the roots of the famous animated series from cartoon legends Hanna-Barbera, get set for this ‘purrfect’ feature adventure that tells the ‘tail’ of how our hero, T.C. created his infamous, Manhattan alley cats gang. Poor, lonely and living on the streets, Top Cat is one sad cat, until a chance meeting with Benny, a naive and good-hearted cat looking for adventure. The pair quickly become best buddies – and partners in crime – pick pocketing their way out of poverty and quickly believing they are the real cats’ whiskers! Setting their sights higher, they decide to steal from Mr. Big, a mysterious diamond-stealing henchman who rules New York’s backstreets. As Top Cat and Benny hatch a plan to take the diamonds for themselves, little do they know, success is just the start of their problems. Along the way, our heroes meet fellow alley cats Choo Choo, Fancy-Fancy and Brain, and together they’re a formidable bunch. However, when Mr. Big catches up with them and captures Top Cat, can his new friends save the day?
‘Staring Jason Harris (Top Cat: The Movie, Rio 2), David Hoffman (Bridesmaids) and Chris Edgerly (Happy Feet, The Simpsons) and director Andres Couturier, TOP CAT comes to UK cinemas May 27.’
Ever since it was announced that Sony was reviving the Ghostbusters franchise with a new, all-female team, there have been some grumblers out there saying it shouldn’t have been done. However, now the first proper trailer is here, which gives us our first proper look at the movie. While slightly different in tone to the original, it does look like it’ll be a lot of fun.
We’ve had a couple fo brief looks at Pixar’s return to the sea for Finding Dory, but it’s only now that we’ve got a proper trailer, which gives us a good look at the movie, with Ellen Degeneres’ forgetful fish finding out about her past.
In mathematical circles there are few people as respected as Srinavasa Ramanujan, a man who managed to make major strides in the field, despite the fact the he was almost completely self-taught and developed his skills in isolation. It’s almost surprising a major biopic about him has never been made before, but now one is on its way.
They’ve dealt with continental drift, coming face ot face with dinosaurs, a massive thaw, and for one of them the inability to hang on to acorns. However, in Ice Age: Collision Course the threat is a bit more cosmic. You can get a taste in the trailer below.
Synopsis: ‘In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry.
In the last couple of weeks you could have been forgiven for thinking that it was just a formality that The Revenant would get the Best Picture Oscar, but in the end things worked out differently as the excellent Spotlight picked up the biggest gong. However, The Revenant didn’t leave empty-handed, with Alejandro González Iñárritu picking up his second Best Director Oscar in a row (only the third person to do so), Emmanuel Lubezki getting Best Cinematography, and Leonardo DiCaprio finally getting a Best Actor gong.