‘Disenchantment’ Trailer Brings ‘Futurama’-Style Humor To A Fantasy Setting
Matt Groening, creator ofThe SimpsonsandFuturama, heads to Netflix withDisenchantment, a very-funny looking new animated series set within a fantasy realm. Groening and his team appear to be creating a series that owes more toFuturamathan it doesThe Simpsons, right down to the voice actors and animation style. Watch the hilarious newDisenchantmenttrailer below.
Disenchantment Trailer
Well, gosh darn it, this looks like a heck of a lot of fun.Futuramawas one of the all-time great animated shows, and the tone and style ofFuturamaseems to have been transplanted over toDisenchantment.In the series, alcoholic Princess Bean (voiced byBroad CitystarAbbi Jacobson), sets out on a series of misadventures in her enchanted kingdom of Dreamland. Along the way, Bean is accompanied “by her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci.”
This trailer promises more of the irreverent, off-beat, yet surprisingly touching humor that Groening and company perfected onThe SimpsonsandFuturama. Amidst all the shenanigans and sight-gags, there’s a brief moment where Bean asks, “What’s this strange feeling that I don’t want to drink away?” It’s a funny line, and yet at the same time, it hits you just a little too hard. I wasn’t expecting this series to have moments like that, and now I’m pleasantly surprised. There also appears to be a strong theme about claiming independence running through this footage – Bean doesn’t just want to be a princess; she wants to forge her own destiny. Everything on display here works, and works damn well.
“The princess is a perfect example,” executive producer Josh Weinsteinsaidat a panel at Comic-Con. “It used to be like the Disney princess, but also, I think a lot of writers make the mistake too of going the other way–it’s like, ‘She’s totally kick-ass and she’s perfect.’ So we wanted to bust that trope and actually make, what if the princess were just like, a realistic 19-year-old young woman?”
Also: I really dig the instrumental cover of David Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” that accompanies this trailer.
In addition to Jacobson,Disenchantmentfeatures the voice talents ofEric Andre(“Luci”), andNat Faxon(“Elfo”) along withJohn DiMaggio,Billy West,Maurice LaMarche,Tress MacNeille,David Herman,Matt Berry,Jeny Batten,Rich Fulcher,Noel Fielding, andLucy Montgomery.
