The First Trailer For Lucasfilm’s Strange Magic Arrives

Jill Pantozzi

Published: Nov 21, 2014 01:25 pm

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When we first reported on Lucasfilm’s Strange Magic, starring Kristen Chenoweth and Alan Cumming, I was hopeful. After this first trailer though, I’m not quite sure how to feel. As a trailer, particularly for an animated feature geared towards kids, I think it fails. Of course that could mean absolutely nothing about the film but it comes across as a bit bland and generic to me.

Gary Rydstrom is directing, with George Lucas executive producing, the A Midsummer Night’s Dream-inspired musical (Marius de Vries of Moulin Rouge fame is the musical director and composer). Thoughts?

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Jill Pantozzi

Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."