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Movie Trailer Review, Episode 23

I saw Pineapple Express last night. I was very disappointed. Three new trailers to talk about.

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Michael Cera is back as a musician snob who has one crazy night with a beautiful girl while trying to avoid his ex-girlfriend. One thing can be said about this trailer, it sucks. It did not make me want to see the movie, and that’s pretty significant because normally all you need to say is Michael Cera and I’m on board. The trailer suffers from the popular syndrome of talking too much about the films plot and failing to show us why we would actually want to see the movie. The film is directed by Peter Sollett and it’s based on a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan and adapted for the screen by Lorene Scafaria. Despite this trailer, Michael Cera is still enough to get me to see this film.

Death Race

Written and directed by the arch-nemesis of quality, Paul W.S. Anderson, who also brought us Alien vs. Predator, Resident Evil and Mortal Kombat (I guess I could soften the blow by mentioning that he also made Event Horizon). Death Race is a remake of the ’70s era cult classic Death Race 2000 and it stars Jason Statham and a few other people. The trailing was crappy and totally not interesting and I’m making an early judgement call that this film is going to be equally crappy and uninteresting.

Hamlet 2

Wow. Just plain wow. Hamlet 2 looks like a brilliant mixture of Family Guy and Waiting for Guffman. There is an obvious heavy influence from a particular episode of Family Guy in which Peter directs a stage version of the King and I which turns out schlocky and terrible and people love it. But I digress. Hamlet 2 is about a high school theater teacher, played by Steve Coogan, who needs to put on the best production of his life in order to save his schools theater department. So he comes up with a sequel to Hamlet in which Hamlet uses a time machine to meet Jesus (which leads to the hit single “Rock Me, Sexy Jesus”). I really think that this film will be both brilliant and terrible at the same time. The trailer for the film does a nice job of hitting key points and giving some good laughs, it’s not the best trailer, but it’ll do. The film is directed by Andrew Fleming who directed an episode of Arrested Development and one of my favorite films Dick. Fleming co-wrote the film with Pam Brady who I have mentioned before as being brilliant, she created the show The Loop (which I loved the first season of) and the film Hot Rod as well as working with the South Park guys on the features they have made. Did I really just write this much about this film?