‘A Town Called Panic: Double Fun’ Trailer: One Of The Strangest (And Best) Animated Movies Ever Gets A Follow-Up
By Jacob Hall/Sept. 19, 2016 11:00 am EST
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Now, seven years later, a sequel-of-sorts is here in the form of A Town Called Panic: Double Fun, which has unveiled a new trailer.
Heres’s the A Town Called Panic Double Fun trailer:
To be perfectly clear, A Town Called Panic: Double Fun isn’t an actual feature film. It’s actually two short films, Christmas Panic and Back to School Panic, packaged together for a one-day screening on September 24, 2016 as part of Art House Theater Day. The trailer itself is only okay – this is the kind of comedy where the gags build on top of one another in satisfying ways that cannot be glimpsed in a quick preview – but it’s enough to make me thoroughly irritated that I’m probably going to miss this in theaters. Also, I’ll say this much: hearing these characters dubbed into English is truly strange after only knowing them from their original French voices.
Here’s the official synopsis for this double feature:
With disarming wit and hilarious visuals, A Town Called Panic: Double Fun revels in the simple setup of three plasticine toys sent on increasingly surreal and freewheeling adventures. Cowboy and Indian are always up to some harebrained scheme, with Horse left to clean up the mess. In Christmas Panic, their out-of-control antics lead Horse to call Santa and cancel the presents. But the boys figure they can still save Christmas… if they break into their neighbor’s house to steal his yule log! In Back to School Panic, a class assignment yields a special prize, but only Pig knows the answer. Cowboy and Indian use a special shrinking potion to sneak into Pig’s brain, where they discover a sodium-packed world of pig cops riding in bacon cars and sausage cycles.
Take another trip to A Town Called Panic, with two award-winning new specials from the directors of the zany feature film and the Academy Award®-nominated Ernest & Celestine, in theaters on September 24 for one day only!
These new short films continue the brilliant, over-the-top visual inventiveness that has given the series a dedicated cult following, with a classic slapstick comedy sensibility that is perfect for all ages. This special Art House Theater Day release continues the fun with an intermission featuring two classic A Town Called Panic shorts, Lisa & Jan and Cow-Hulk, where ill-behaved European backpackers and an alien microbe cause even more mayhem!
