Okay, so three trailers to look at this week (making up for last weeks lack of videos)
First off is a dramatic comedy featuring Will Ferrell called Everything Must Go. The film is the story of an alcoholic who relapses, and as a result in one day loses his job and has his wife leave him and his stuff on the front lawn of his house, so he decides to have yard sale to help him start over. While doing so, he meets a neighborhood kid and new neighbor that may help bring him back from the edge (pretty cliched there).
I'm intrigued by this movie because it doesn't seem like your typical Will Ferrell movie, where he just plays the goofy idiot. Instead it feels like he is going more towards the dramatic with this performance, which is an area is is far underrated in doing (see Stranger Than Fiction).
I do have a hunch that this is a misleading trailer though, playing towards the comedy of Ferrell as opposed to the dramatic tendincies that the film could be focusing on. Still, I for one am intrigued by the trailer and look forward to its release day on May 13th (limited)
This next one is a little bit of a cheat. At Wondercon this past weekend (a convention held in San Francisco), new footage for the upcoming Green Lantern movie was released. Part of the footage went online this week, and feels exactly like a trailer should. Not giving too much information about the film yet giving us just enough of a taste to make you want to see it.
The film features Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan aka The Green Lantern. Its the typical first film of a new franchise, being an origin story and setting up the mythos which the comic and future films will be based upon.
Based on the footage, I get an Iron Man feel for the direction the franchise will be going in (which is a very good thing), though DC based movies are either hit or miss. You have all of the Batman movies (one year until Dark Knight Rises!) but you also have the recent Superman Returns...which was just boring. I think that the people behind Green Lantern will take a page out of Marvel's book and try to mimic what they have done to much success, and if that happens everyone wins.
Last but not least...The Hangover II.
A teaser was just released a few weeks ago, but now we are treated to a full three minute trailer that plays out more what the story will be about and things that will happen.
Essentially its the same trio from the first movie, this time in Thailand for Stu's (Ed Helms) bachelor party, this time they lose the younger brother of Stu's fiance and have to find him before the wedding.
The story is the one red flag for me, it feels exactly the same as the original, so the writers were following the "if it aint broke dont fix it mentality", which you really cant blame them, given the previous film was the highest grossing R-rated comedy of all time. There is plenty of references to the fact that the characters are going through the same situations again (even Ken Jeong is back in what looks to be a much expanded role).
That being said, the trailer I still laughed at the trailer and no matter what anyone says, this movie is going to be a hit. I look forward to what they weren't able to show, this trailer is actually meant for a PG-13 rating and has actually been pulled to the censors freaking out over some of the language and imagery shown (none of which is that bad, but thats the MPAA for you)
It opens Memorial Day weekend (May 26th).
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