Leave It to Mexico to Make a CG Movie About Cockfighting (and Talking Eggs)

EDIT: an earlier headline called this a kids’ movie. Even though it looks like one from the marketing, I’m told it isn’t. Which makes it no less strange, especially as a three-film franchise.

Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos is set to be the first Mexican CG animated feature to get theatrical distribution in the U.S., and it looks…well…definitely not from here. The idea of a rooster being friends with talking eggs seems cute, but the moment you realize the implications – that they are basically Ripley and he’s the Alien Queen – it starts to seem a bit weirder. I don’t reckon we’ll see chicken fetuses doing any chestbusting, but it’s the logical next step.

And even though the trailer’s not in English, I can gather that the plot involves cockfighting, as organized by an egg who looks like Don Corleone. This is apparently the third in a series of films based on a web cartoon, and the first in CG, which presumably is what made American theaters deem it releasable, as all hints of hand-drawing have been banished from most multiplexes.

It certainly looks like something The Simpsons‘ Bumblebee Man would enjoy. And the hypothetical word of a man in an insect suit is good enough for me.

via Cartoon Brew