DreamWorks Animation has assembled its ginormous ensemble voice cast for the snail-centered film Turbo. Ryan Reynolds is already onboard to voice the protagonist, an ordinary garden snail who obtains extraordinary speed through a freak accident and sets out to race in the Indianapolis 500. Now Heat Vision reports that (deep breath) Paul Giamatti, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Hader, Michael Pena, Luis Guzmán, Richard Jenkins, Ken Jeong, Michelle Rodriguez, Maya Rudolph, Ben Schwartz, Kurtwood Smith, and Snoop Dogg are set to join the cast. David Soren is directing from a script he co-wrote with Robert Siegel (The Wrestler) and Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After).
I love the voice cast here but I’m not wild about the premise. Pixar already tried to do a movie set in the professional racing world twice to less than stellar results, and this new teaser image doesn’t exactly alleviate any of my concerns. It should be said that it’s still early in the animation process and this image doesn’t exactly reflect the finished film, but I certainly don’t think it’s a great start. Hit the jump to check out the image for yourself. Turbo is slated for July 19th, 2013.
Image via Bleeding Cool.
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My God! Turbo is to Cars as Antz was to A Bug’s Life and Shark Tale was to Finding Nemo! Congrats to Dreamworks Animation for finding a worse way to do everything.
@Lizard King–
Yeah. Well Cars sucks. So much in fact that they made a sequel that ruined Pixar’s streak of critically acclaimed films with a festering turd of a film. It didn’t even hit $200 million domestically. It wasn’t nominated for an Oscar.
As far as I’m concerned, Dreamworks can do whatever they want to improve the shitty concept that is Cars.
Also, that’s a freaking snail. Not a talking Car. So you’re an idiot for thinking that it’s the same thing based on one movie poster.
Dreamworks is the thunder and Pixar is the lightning.
Thunder always come after lightning.
Not interested by the concept. It’s Cars revisited.
heh, the Pixar smirk as referenced here
http://www.eatliver.com/img/2009/4175.jpg
Cars was in my opinion one of Pixar’s weakest efforts and the fact that it got a sequel before Incredibles, and Monsters, Inc pissed me off. This just sounds silly. Forget the Monsters, Inc Prequel, just do Incredibles and a Mosnters Inc sequel.
That snail on the poster reminds me of Slinkman from Camp Lazlo