Watch The Full-Length Trailer For Netflix’s Animated Adam Sandler Feature ‘Leo,’ Coming November 21

Netflix has dropped the full-length trailer for its upcoming animated feature Leo, which will start streaming worldwide November 21.

Original animation at Netflix has done well in 2023, with films such as Nimona and The Monkey King generating strong viewership numbers. Leo looks like a more commercially friendly proposition than either of those films, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone if the film proves to be a hit.

The Leo trailer looks sharp, featuring animation from Australia’s Animal Logic (The Lego Movie, DC League of Super-Pets), which was acquired by Netflix last year.

Film details:

• Leo is the latest collaboration between Netflix and Adam Sandler, and frequent Sandler collaborators and Saturday Night Live writers Robert Smigel, Robert Marianetti, and David Wachtenheim co-direct. Smigel was a co-writer on Hotel Transylvania and Hotel Transylvania 2, with Marianetti and Wachtenheim as heads of story on the latter. All three worked on Saturday Night Live’s popular animated “TV Funhouse” segments in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
• The film was written by Smigel, Sandler, and Paul Sado, and produced by Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions.
• According to Netflix’s synopsis, the film is a “coming-of-age animated musical comedy about the last year of elementary school – as seen through the eyes of a class pet. Jaded 74-year-old lizard Leo has been stuck in the same Florida classroom for decades with his terrarium-mate turtle. When he learns he only has one year left to live, he plans to escape to experience life on the outside but instead gets caught up in the problems of his anxious students — including an impossibly mean substitute teacher. It ends up being the strangest but most rewarding bucket list ever.”
• The film’s voice cast features Sandler, Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, Nicholas Turturro, Robert Smigel, Jo Koy, and Stephanie Hsu.