Adam Sandler’s Aging Animated Lizard Helps a School Class Navigate the Challenges of Growing Up in ‘Leo’ Trailer

Adam Sandler’s aging class pet is on a mission to live his last days in the world beyond his elementary school terrarium, but upon escaping, finds something even better with his students in the first full trailer for Leo.

On Thursday, Netflix released the first full trailer for the animated musical, which also stars Bill Burr, Cecily Strong, Jason Alexander, Rob Schneider, Jo Koy and Stephanie Hsu. The latest look at the coming-of-age comedy sees Sandler’s lizard and Burr’s turtle, both jaded and desperate for something different after a visitor to their class suggests Leo is looking old.

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“No animal wants to be locked up,” Sandler’s Leo can be heard lamenting. “I wasted my life!”

So when the opportunity to break free into the wider world presents itself as a take-home assignment for students, Leo jumps at it. But his plan to go home with a student, escape and “really live” is disrupted when one kid discovers he can actually talk.

Pretty soon, Leo leanrs that while the world has something to offer him, he has things to offer his elementary class. With each student who takes him home, the 74-year-old lizard finds a new way to help them cope with the pains of growing up. From addressing growing back hair to people thinking you’re weird, Leo offers each kid the kind of wisdom only an aging lizard can provide.

In the end, the class pet discovers what he was looking for was right in front of him all along. “You made me feel like I could do anything,” says one of Leo’s students in the trailer, before he adds: “This is a tough time, but these are your best years, believe me.”

Leo also stars Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Jackie Sandler, Heidi Gardner, Nick Swardson, Nicholas Turturro and Robert Smigel. Directed by Robert Marianetti, Robert Smigel and David Wachtenheim, the animated film is written by Robert Smigel, Adam Sandler and Paul Sado, and produced by Sandler’s Happy Madison company.

Leo debuts on Netlfix on Nov. 21.

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