After a miserable day like Wednesday, we could all use a news story—just one!—that isn’t part of the torrent of garbage that’s been raining down for the last year. So here’s that story: Aardman Animations, the beloved studio behind Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, has a new movie coming out. It’s called Early Man, it’s directed by Nick Park, and here’s its trailer. The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne, Masie Williams, and Richard Ayoade, none of whom have been caught up in the post-Weinstein deluge so far. And there’s never been anything more innocently loveable than an Aardman film starting with the studio’s very first feature, Chicken Run, starring Mel Gibson … hmmm. Well, that was a long time ago. More recently, Aardman made the perpetually-underrated The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, an adaptation of Gideon Defoe’s hilarious book, in which Hugh Grant faces off against rival pirate Jeremy Piven, who, … hmmmmmmmm.
Still, no one in the cast of this movie has been revealed to be human slime so far, so it looks like we might be getting some funny, guilt-free entertainment when the film comes out in February. Get ready to laugh at the story of a loveable caveman who suddenly finds that the world has moved forward without him, and his customary ways of doing things are no longer acceptable, and godDAMMIT! Can we just have one thing? One! Is that too much?
