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I went and saw Night at the Museum with Lindsay and her sister, it was fun, it didn’t irritate me at all.

Shrek the Third

In the trailer we are led to believe that Shrek has a kid and maybe he has to spend some time as a human or something.  There is a funny screen where Pinocchio sufficiently obfuscates the truth without lying.  The trailer was cute and funny.  No real complaints here.

Oceans 13

I hated the remake of Oceans 11, kicked and screamed when I saw trailers for Oceans 12 and now I’ve just given up.  Whoopy doo.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

This trailer is still confusing me.  Did the 2005 Fantastic Four movie make money?  Did it make enough money to justify a sequel?  In the interest of full disclosure I’ll admit that I didn’t see the movie, but I avoided it with good reason.  Down to the trailer; it was alright.  We see Silver Surfer swoop in an crash a funeral that the Fantastic Four are attending so Johnny Storm lights up and chases him through the city.  I did enjoy the trailer, and I love the Silver Surfer but I don’t foresee myself seeing this movie and I do foresee this moving being another colossal failure for the Fantastic Four franchise.

Ratatouille

This is the next baby from Disney and Pixar and in the interest of full disclosure I LOVED THIS TRAILER!  In it we see a rat in a fancy French restaurant trying to steal some food.  Then the rat explains to us that he loves fine food and that just because he is a rat doesn’t mean that he should eat garbage.  And that’s the whole trailer.  Pixar does a great job of telling us about the movie, and giving us a feel for the comedy without showing us everything from the actual movie.

The Simpsons

Ooooh, I’m drooling a little bit about this one.  The trailer starts off with a cute CG bunny and a voice over tells us that lots of movies are cute and CG but that The Simpsons movie is ugly and 2D!  Then we see a hilarious set up of Homer and Bart on the roof of their house and Homer is trying to nail a shingle to the roof, we can clearly see this thumb over the head of the nail as he draws back the hammer to strike.  We sitting pondering what hilarity will ensue once Homer brings the hammer down on his thumb, but that doesn’t happen!  Before we can even finish imagining that potential comedy Homer lands the spiky rear of the hammer squarely in his eye, and then comedy ensues.  It’s a fantastic set up and an even better execution.  I rely on the Simpsons, even on their weaker episodes, to never disappoint. 

 

-Josh

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 26th, 2006 by schalicto
Filed under: Movie Trailer Reviews