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The Trouble With Lou

June 12, 2009 12:05 am

Pixar’s Teddy Newton produced and co-wrote (with director Gregor Joackim) an independent live action feature, The Trouble with Lou, in 2001. It’s NSFW, laugh-out-loud hilarious and is now on iTunes. It stars animation designer Lou Romano (Ratatouille) as “Himself”, and composer Michael Giacchino (The Incredibles, Up, Star Trek ) did the score. It’s almost like Pixar’s bastard step-child.

Teddy sent me these facts about he film:

1. The Trouble with Lou was shot over a 33 day period.

2. It was independently financed by Teddy Newton for the cost of $300,000.

3. The entire cast was made up of unknowns.

4. Dr. Killgore is played by Doodie.com cartoonist Tom Winkler.

Below is the first two and a half minutes. Download the entire feature here.

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20 comments posted in Animators

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06/12/09 2:08am	Doofus says:
	I’ve been anticipating this! Finally! It’s out! Can’t wait to see it!
06/12/09 6:02am	Tommy says:
	$300,000? Yikes.
06/12/09 8:14am	juanmanuel says:
	Yeah a Lotta money for such a short film THAT features Teddy newton as the narrator THAT features Lou Romano as the main character THAT is not even 3 minutes long. I guess it was just the treatment of the film itself, and the lightning, its fantastic.
06/12/09 8:24am	coreycorey says:
	“females of the opposite sex” hahah! Teddy Newton is my hero.
06/12/09 9:04am	Esperanza says:
	Yep, it’s a wank alright… How old are we?
06/12/09 9:44am	Jenny says:
	It’s one hour and 13 minutes in length, not three minutes. The entire film, that is. 300k is dirt cheap for anything of that length.
06/12/09 9:54am	Tom Pope says:
	As much as I like Lou and Teddy and as much fine work as they have done, this really has very little to do with animation.
06/12/09 10:12am	Kzanth says:
	Oh, Tom… considering the subject matter, and knowing as many animators as I do, I’d consider that it has EVERYTHING to do with animation.
06/12/09 10:32am	Tom Pope says:
	Good point, Kzanth.
06/12/09 11:00am	Cynthia says:
	Why on earth did this cost $300,000?
06/12/09 11:08am	juanmanuel says:
	This is totally like Boys Beware: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4enfUyGWSY (and sorry i didnt know it was a trailer)
06/12/09 12:11pm	emily says:
	This looks awesome! I am tempted to get it on itunes…(I assume you have to buy it).
06/12/09 3:58pm	Joe Quirk says:
	Huuuge fan of Teddy Newton and Lou Romano. When you’re finished laughing you head off at this, find a way to see “the making of,” called “The Trouble With The Trouble With Lou.” It’s even funnier.
06/12/09 5:50pm	Tommy says:
	$300,000 isn’t dirt cheap in the age of $1000 HD cameras, 35mm adapter lenses, and After Effects. Especially for a movie that really didn’t need to be on film, I’d say they could have saved a lot of money.
06/12/09 7:04pm	Doofus says:
	I actually snorted a grape watching this. Don’t eat watching this, it’s too funny. It could be dangerous.
06/12/09 7:38pm	Mark Newgarden says:
	Teddy is a crazy man.
06/13/09 8:15am	robcat2075 says:
	for Tommy: when they made this in 2001 there was no such thing as an HD camera for $1000.
06/13/09 11:27am	Travis Lou Wavescorx says:
	After having this random error over and over again trying to buy it from iTunes (never had any trouble before) I ended up renting it on Amazon.com for $2.99 and watched it with a buddy. It was funny and well-made. I was curious how they could pull off anything longer than the preview and manage to stay true to 50’s educational films without wearing too thin. I think it worked pretty well. Lou did a great job in the role and there were a lot of surprisingly hilarious lines of dialog that catch you off-guard - - some that we had to re-watch a couple of times they were so funny. You could do worse with 3 bucks. I just wish there was a way to download it and burn it to dvd instead of just watching it on the computer. Damn DRM. They should get this on Netflix.
06/13/09 3:09pm	Enoch Allen says:
	Yeah, I’ll be getting this at some point. “You see, the problem is that Lou is a chronic . . .”
06/14/09 3:55pm	Tommy says:
	Robocat, Ok, I didn’t see that it was that old, never mind!

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