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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. Below is the first two and a half minutes. Download the entire feature here. |
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I’ve been anticipating this! Finally! It’s out! Can’t wait to see it!
$300,000? Yikes.
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.
“females of the opposite sex”
hahah!
Teddy Newton is my hero.
Yep, it’s a wank alright…
How old are we?
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.
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.
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.
Good point, Kzanth.
Why on earth did this cost $300,000?
This is totally like
Boys Beware:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4enfUyGWSY
(and sorry i didnt know it was a trailer)
This looks awesome! I am tempted to get it on itunes…(I assume you have to buy it).
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.
$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.
I actually snorted a grape watching this. Don’t eat watching this, it’s too funny. It could be dangerous.
Teddy is a crazy man.
for Tommy: when they made this in 2001 there was no such thing as an HD camera for $1000.
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.
Yeah, I’ll be getting this at some point.
“You see, the problem is that Lou is a chronic . . .”
Robocat,
Ok, I didn’t see that it was that old, never mind!