Movie Trailer: Bunny and the Bull

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While we were previously privy to a clip from Paul King’s Bunny and the Bull, the full trailer for the film has now been launched, and you can see it embedded below the break. This is the first film from the director of The Mighty Boosh and features several alumni of that show in the cast, including hipster heartthrobs Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. It also looks rather like an episode of The Boosh, which isn’t a bad thing.

Here’s the trailer:

I’m expecting a great deal of you will be invoking the name of Michel Gondry now. Of course, while Gondry has a far wider aesthetic style on display across his oeuvre than the whole cardboard kaleidoscope thing, he has pretty much laid claim to that look entirely. This could be either a blessing or a curse for King.

The official synopsis might help contextualise some of the more extraordinary effects in the trailer:

Bunny & the Bull is a road movie set entirely in a flat. Stephen Turnbull hasn’t been outside in months. Living with a painfully restrictive routine, he refuses to interact with the world or think about the past. When a sudden infestation of mice forces him to change his ways, he finds his mind hurtling back to the disastrous trek around Europe he undertook with his friend Bunny, a womanising, gambling-addicted booze-hound.

Unable to stem the flood of memories, Stephen’s flat becomes the springboard for an extraordinary odyssey through landscapes made up of snapshots and souvenirs, from the industrial wastelands of Silesia to the bull fields of Andalusia. A story of love, disillusionment, stuffed bears and globalised seafood, Bunny & the Bull is an offbeat and heartfelt journey to the end of the room.

I’d previously made a comparison between this film’s premise and Vincenzo Natali’s Nothing, but this trailer confirms just how different the two films are. Like Boosh, though, Bunny and the Bull seems to blend the two-guys getting along dynamic with fantastical episodic, engagements with wacky characters.

The Mighty Boosh film continues to trudge through development, with a constant trickle of rumours feeding into geek backwaters. I’d imagine that’s likely to be King’s next gig.

  • excitedinNY
    amazing. Can't wait to see this.
  • dagreenman18
    So Mighty Boosh with bits of Gondry style love story? Im in!
  • NoName7579
    This looks awesome. I love the Boosh.
  • nickondras12
    This movie looks hilarious! Long live Paul King, The Mighty Boosh is genius.
  • dexity
    All Hipsters must die!
  • Your post makes me want to ask, to which easy to stereotype group do you belong? Depressed emo crybaby? Ignorant hate filled redneck? Hard to pin down but clever anonymous blog commenter who posts random comments not related to the thread at all?
  • dexity
    2 and 3. Gay, white supremacist, pack panther party member too. I dabble in Twilight as well.
  • Your reply wins. Let's be BFF.
  • zebrat
    that's a pretty hip comment there buddy.
  • dexity
    Seriously though, I don't like that dude's hat.
  • I'll have to agree. Hipster hats must die.
  • Name
    This looks great! Who does the cover of "Let's Go To Bed" though?
  • As someone who saw the film at TIFF, I recommend that you check it out.
  • I've never seen a single second of The Mighty Boosh. This cool trailer has me wanting the see it all PLUS the film.
  • Same, other than a couple of Boosh clips on YouTube

    this trailer is a trip; I love super innovative visuals like that that I'd personally never come up with or be able to create - but would love to
  • They are airing The Mighty Boosh on Adult Swim in the US. I am not sure of the times they are on, but if you have cable they are very worth it. Also their stuff is available on DVD, I think Netflix has it.
    If Pee-Wee's Playhouse & Monty Python had some psychedelic tea, they would have likely done a show like The Mighty Boosh.
  • Never seen an episode of Boosh but this looks good. I like Noel Fielding, he looks just like one of my lady friends. No offence intended to either party.
  • doriane
    This could be awesome, or it could be the next "Science of Sleep".
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