The animated Yeti movie Smallfoot starring Channing Tatum releases trailer

SMALLFOOT is a Warner Bros. animated film (remember when they made Looney Tunes and IRON GIANT?) about a Yeti (played by Channing Tatum) who wants to prove the existence of the elusive “human”. Presumably shenanigans and the obligatory “CG animated character dances for some reason” ensues.

Now, look, I’m not going to lie, that opening fake out worked for me, and the idea is kind of cute (if well-worn territory). I mean, we’ve had SHREK, where the focus is on the monster, or MONSTERS, INC. where fear of humans is a major plot point, so it doesn’t really have originality on its side (which, for whatever faults it had, last years STORKS did). So SMALLFOOT is not something I’ll rush out to see, but it also doesn’t look eye-gougingly terrible either. So…win?

Meanwhile, SMALLFOOT will stomp into theaters September 28, 2018