...we don't have a Roald Dahl tag? Seriously? All right, I'm hitting up Youtube for "Lamb to the Slaughter," or some episodes of Way Out or something.

Or hell, the You Only Live Twice trailer. SOMETHING.

this looks awful

Roald Dahl is whirling dervishly in his grave

Needs "Ocean's Furteen" tag

Let's at least keep this up here for posterity, guys.

Wes Anderson? No thanks.

. . . ghastly

This kind of looks like those Victorian dioramas where they would stuff several dozen dead kittens and pose them in doll clothes.

And I, for one, look forward to the inevitable Wes Anderson/Tim Burton Death-Match-O-Pretentious-Pussies (tm).

i love wes anderson but i just don't think i can get behind this

Looks awful, and Wes Anderson is actually good, despite what the gibbering tards on poeTV will tell you. Comparisons with Tim Burton now? Also, Tim Burton isn't pretentious, he just sucks.

A good point is made, we shouldn't one-star trailers and stuff just because the trailer and/or movie looks horrible. That's not in the spirit of poetv. If I could retract my two stars I totes would, giving this at least 4 stars for evil grave robbery.

To clarify my position and intent in posting this: I'm an Anderson defender and thought this sounded good.

Then I saw the trailer.

Maybe, MAYBE this will be watchable, but Jesus, I doubt it.

I for one am intrigued at least by the cinematography and general aesthetic. As cognitivedissonance said, it looks like a taxidermy diorama (all the perpendicular lines and static camera angles, deliberate staging and model train layout sets), but I am not opposed to that.

The dialogue is a bit too precious at times but it may be that the trailer is focusing on it.

Is it just me, or do these voices not sound like they're coming from the characters at all?

I guess it could just be the lip sync is off, but it kinda seems like more than that. Like maybe they didn't bother to add reverb or whatever to make them sound like they're actually in the environments they're portayed as being in.

All this needs is to be CGI to be indistinguishable from a Dreamworks funny-animals shitfest.

Oh, Wes. What happened.

I think this looks fantastic. Roald Dahl was pretty great but he also was an anti-semite. If he doesn't like good adaptations of his work then I'm glad he lies uneasy in his grave. Fuck that guy.

I think that the mildly unsettling aspect to the animation (a vast array of textures beyond the scope of what we generally see animated either physically or in CGI) reflects a willingness not to condescend to the young audience that this film is clearly aimed at.

I'm glad you folks don't like it. You people are sort of shit.

When is Wes Anderson going to change the name of his production company to "THIS MOVIE HAS BILL MURRAY IN IT FILMS."

I want to loathe this, but something is making me like it. I think it's the devil.

Five stars, because now we can put Mr. Dahl's spinning coffin into a giant motor and power all of Europe.

This originally began as a Henry Selick project, but he abandoned it to do Coraline instead, so Anderson took over from being just producer.

The animation looks like the dancing bit from Evil Dead 2.

The Furries are going to be worshiping this movie for years to come.