Newt - It's What I'm Excited For!

While I'm very excited for the upcoming Pixar film, Toy Story 3, I can't help but train my thoughts on another upcoming Pixar project called Newt.


Not much is known yet about Newt, but the story is basically as follows: Two endangered newts, whose species is on the very brink of extinction (they being the only two left), find themselves stuck in a college biology lab together in hopes that they will mate and preserve their species. The two, however, are polar opposites. The male, Newt, was presumably raised in captivity and has been pampered, while the female, Brooke, is more wild and street-smart.

Though I personally can't think of any other specific instance of this kind of story being told before, something about it seems to ring a bell. It's not a totally new concept, after all - two complete opposites meet, and after a series of events fall for eachother.

Still, we have to remember that this is Pixar. It's never that cut and dry with them. I'm expecting a lot of humor coupled with many small, tender moments. Suckers for love stories might just find themselves reaching for the tissues on this one, I predict. But, then again, who knows? Thanks to Pixar's nifty habit of keeping a plot under wraps until a movie's release, none of us will actually know the whole story until the movie premieres in 2012.

Here's hoping 2012 is another great year for Pixar Animation Studios, the best darn animators and storytellers out there!