To be completely honest I didn't like the trailer at all. I'm sick of Disney remaking all of their classic animated films into these Live-Action movies that in my opinion haven't been very good. None of them have. And I'm not expecting them to get any better (except for maybe Beauty & the Beast. I'm hoping that one's at least re-watchable like the original). All of the Live Action fairy tales have lost a lot of the magic that the animated versions had.
I personally think this is a too many eggs in one basket situation. They announced
all these live action reimaginings of their own versions of movies as soon as Maleficent hit. And something tells me they were darn lucky to a point. This will come crashing down on them at some point.
Yet... considering how meh their 101 Dalmatians (Video Game designer? No one writes songs anymore?) and their
horrible sequel turned out (yeah. Emperor's New Groove is the movie released at that time Disney was embarrassed about), they are at least attempting something with these. And yes, I have to have a shout out to how horrible their live action versions of old cartoons were (except George of the Jungle, which is surprisingly close to the series in spirit, even the cheapquel). But, well... with Maleficent, they at least altered the movie to be from the perspective of the villain. These seem to be slightly edgier (imperceptibly so) versions of their cartoon movies.
Still, given that this was the studio that was all about making unwanted sequels to animated movies (some could have actually had
good follow ups, but didn't) I don't know what to make of these. Sure, Lion King 2 was actually
good and YMMV on the Aladdin sequels (the first was a good pilot to the TV show, the third was pretty good, but mostly for Robin Williams coming back)`. But we had like 3 Tarzan movies (and a show) which
none of them bothered with the lost Duke (or Earl or whatever) story, a Hercules sequel which was disappointingly 3 episodes of the cartoon (where they did pitch a sequel that was ..heh..the story that the
original film would have had), and a dumb Beauty and the Beast Christmas special "midquel." And the second Goofy Movie would have been better without being a commercial for the X-Games on Disney owned ESPN, but was kinda fun over all.