I remember walking out of Monsters Vs. Aliens with basically a single thought: this movie really could have been something if they were willing to play it real. Yes, the 3D was dynamite and the IMAX screen only added depth and scope, but at the end of the day, it was still a jokey 1950s spoof aimed at very young kids. What a great movie it could have been if it had the courage to be a real science-fiction adventure about monsters fighting off invading alien forces... Dreamworks has proven they can play for keeps since then, with Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, and Megamind. But Puss in Boots seems to be going the Monsters and Aliens route. Yes, this is just a trailer, but how wonderful would it be to see a full-blown and red-blooded Zorro adventure in animated form where our Zorro happened to be an animated feline? Speaking of The Mask of Zorro, I fully expected Dreamworks to use the James Horner score for Martin Campbell's masterpiece in this new trailer. But instead, they used the same piece of music from Drop Zone that Sony used in the original Mask of Zorro trailers back in 1998. Weird... Anyway, this one comes out on November 4th. As always, we'll see...
Scott Mendelson
Scott Mendelson
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