Here’s the trailer for the next film from DreamWorks Animation, How to Train Your Dragon. It’s notable for directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, who previously teamed for Disney’s Lilo & Stitch. Unfortunately, and in my opinion, I don’t see much of their previous film’s charm coming through here, except somewhat with the dragon, although its design and personality are clearly very similar to Stitch’s anyway. Their faces have the same shape. It doesn’t help the film that the designs for the human characters are rather blah and caught in an awkward place between caricature and realism. There’s also an odd disconnect between what the design of Hiccup is telling me about the character and what Jay Baruchel’s voice is telling me. I’m really not sure how old he’s supposed to be.
Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Craig Ferguson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill and Kristen Wiig also lend their voices to the movie.
How to Train Your Dragon will be in theaters on March 26th, 2010.
