By Ryan Parsons | Image property of Fox Searchlight, Trailer Addict
The Tale of Despereaux
Universal Pictures is trying their hand at the CG-medium with their adaptation of The Tale of Despereaux. While the film boasts an incredibly large cast that includes Matthew Broderick, Ciaran Hinds, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Jenkins, William H. Macy, Emma Watson, Stanley Tucci, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Christopher Lloyd, Kevin Kline and a selection more, let's just see how the film looks, shall we?
The Tale of Despereaux Trailer
Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air, laughter aplenty and gallons of mouthwatering soup. But an accident left the King broken-hearted, the Princess filled with longing and the townsfolk without their soup. Sunlight disappeared. The world became gray. All hope was lost in this land…until Despereaux Tilling was born.
A modern fairy tale, The Tale of Despereaux tells the story of four unlikely heroes: Despereaux (Matthew Broderick), a brave mouse banished to the dungeon for speaking with a human; Roscuro (Dustin Hoffman), a good-hearted rat who loves light and soup, but is exiled to darkness; Pea (Emma Watson), a Princess in a gloomy castle who is prisoner to her father’s grief; and Mig (Tracey Ullman), a servant girl who longs to be a Princess, but is forced to serve the jailer.
Tiny and graced with oversized ears, Despereaux was born too big for his little world. Refusing to live his life cowering, he befriends a Princess named Pea and learns to read (rather than eat) books—reveling in stories of knights, dragons and fair maidens. Banished from Mouseworld for being more man than mouse, Despereaux is rescued by another outcast, Roscuro, who also wants to hear the tales. But when the Princess dismisses Roscuro’s friendship, he becomes the ultimate rat and plots revenge with fellow outsider Mig.
After Pea is kidnapped, Despereaux discovers he is the only one who can rescue her…and that even the tiniest mouse can find the courage of a knight in shining armor. In this tale of bravery, forgiveness and redemption, one small creature will teach a kingdom that it takes only a little light to show the truth: what you look like doesn’t equal what you are.
The film looks pretty good, though I can't help see a combination of Ratatouille and An American Tale. You can check out the trailer in Quicktime at Yahoo! Movies.
The Tale of Despereaux opens to theaters on December 19th.
The Tale of Despereaux 
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