An international trailer (Italian, to be exact) has been released theatrically by Walt Disney Studios for Robert Zemeckis’ 3D animated retelling of A Christmas Carol and someone managed to record it and slap it on YouTube.
Though some parts of the trailer fall victim to poor lighting, you can still get a decent idea for the film’s visual design and character movements created using the same motion capture technology Zemeckis used to bring Beowulf to life.
I’m not completely sold going CGI for the latest incarnation of A Christmas Carol was the best idea as in some scenes Ebenezer looks “wooden” while in others he’s brimming with life (or his decrepit version of it). The inconsistency is bugging me. I also suspect the trailer is far more impressive in 3D as several scenes are clearly designed around objects appearing closer than they may be.
Ebenezer Scrooge (Jim Carrey) begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk (Gary Oldman) and his cheery nephew (Colin Firth). But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it’s too late.
Check out the trailer below and hope an HD US version arrives during or shortly after Comic-Con later this week so we can get a clearer picture of what to expect from the finished film.
