That’s Invoice Burr (left) and Adam Sandler above in a nonetheless from the newest Netflix animated film, Leo. (I don’t know who’s voicing the little bugs.)
Sandler, who additionally produced and co-wrote the movie with Robert Smigel (the longtime Sandler collaborator who’s often known as the person behind Triumph the Insult Comedian Canine), has beforehand appeared in animated type as a wacky Rely Dracula, and a small-town schlub who seemed precisely like Adam Sandler. So why not voice a cranky outdated lizard who realizes he has wasted his life as a elementary college class pet and endeavors to reside out his last years experiencing the world? Makes whole sense to me.
The twist right here, as the brand new trailer reveals: Sandler’s Leo can really converse English, however he and his fellow animals preserve this truth secret, a la the toys in Toy Story. (Come to consider it, it’s additionally the premise of Zookeeper, the Kevin James comedy produced by Sandler’s Blissful Madison Productions.) Anyway, right here’s that trailer:
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The voice forged past Sandler, Burr, and Smigel contains Cecily Robust, Jason Alexander, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler (who each just lately starred in Sandler’s different 2023 Netflix comedy, You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah), Rob Schneider, Jo Koy, Nick Swardson, and Stephanie Hsu.
Right here is the movie’s official synopsis:
Actor and comic Adam Sandler (Lodge Transylvania, The Wedding ceremony Singer) delivers signature laughs on this coming-of-age animated musical comedy in regards to the final yr of elementary college – as seen by the eyes of a category pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo (Sandler) has been caught in the identical Florida classroom for many years along with his terrarium-mate turtle (Invoice Burr). When he learns he solely has one yr left to reside, he plans to flee to expertise life on the surface however as a substitute will get caught up within the issues of his anxious college students — together with an impossibly imply substitute trainer. It finally ends up being the strangest however most rewarding bucket listing ever…
Leo premieres on Netflix on November 21.
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