How to Train Your Yeti

Dreamworks has released the first preview for Abominable , the latest in astring of animate filmsabout the icebound Bigfoot . It might sound recognizable because of all the abominable snowman motion picture we ’ve become in the past times , including the one whereZendaya was Meechee — but it ’s also similar for another cause . Does this yeti look … conversant to you ?

The first drone for Abominable introduces Chloe Bennet as Yi , a young girlfriend living in modernistic - day Shanghai who has big dreams and want to measure up to her father ’s legacy . But everything change when she comes across a strange animal , one which seems wild and unruly … until Yi reveal it has peculiar magical abilities , and the two of them shape an inseparable bond .

Looking , I ’m not saying Dreamworks has follow thefinal filmin the How to direct Your Dragon saga with a copycat motion-picture show about a lady friend and her abominable snowman that looks and acts exactly like Toothless … but come on ! Did you look at the abominable snowman ’s face ? The build of the optic , the wide and toothy smiling , right on down to the slits in its short , blanket nose . This is Snow Toothless . They even go flying together . They have to conjure up some cloud blank space whales for do it . But if How to Train Your Dragon had larger-than-life flying scenes , goddammit , so should odious .

I’m having deja-dragon.

I’m having deja-dragon.Image: Dreamworks

Of course , there are some differences . This one is about Yi and her friends taking the yeti , that she ’s appoint Everest , back to his household in the mountains . They ’re being chased by an animal collector ( Eddie Izzard ) and a animal scientist ’s assistant ( Sarah Paulson ) , who want to kidnap the yeti — very exchangeable to former HTTYD storylines , but also a vernacular trope so it ’s well-fixed to dismiss . And I ’ll admit , the picture show looks really pretty . Dreamworks ’ living keep to improve , and I love how the studio apartment is willing to try out with fantastic and otherworldly imagery , something Disney tends to keep more grounded with films like this .

But come up on . It ’s Snow Toothless . odious number out September 27 .

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Image: Dreamworks