“They look exactly like us. They think like us.”
Released in 2005, Disney Channel Original The Proud Family Movie served as the show’s series finale and it took the family to Legume Island, where they came face-to-face with evil clones of themselves. Sounds a bit like the plot of Jordan Peele’s Us, doesn’t it?!
YouTube channel Yeek. has a little fun with the similarities for their latest video, which Peele himself shared on Twitter. It recreates the Us trailer, using clips from the animated movie!
Set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline, Us, from Monkeypaw Productions, stars Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o as Adelaide Wilson, a woman returning to her beachside childhood home with her husband, Gabe (Black Panther’s Winston Duke), and their two children (Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex) for an idyllic summer getaway.
Haunted by an unexplainable and unresolved trauma from her past and compounded by a string of eerie coincidences, Adelaide feels her paranoia elevate to high-alert as she grows increasingly certain that something bad is going to befall her family.
After spending a tense beach day with their friends, the Tylers (Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon), Adelaide and her family return to their vacation home. When darkness falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures holding hands as they stand in the driveway. Us pits an endearing American family against a terrifying and uncanny opponent: doppelgängers of themselves.
Universal has dated Us for March 15, 2019.
