This Week in Trailers XIV

This week was like a magnet, with trailers which seem to be split into two complete opposite groups – action and animated comedy. Alright enough with my horrible similes, this week we have the amazing but somewhat familiar trailer for Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla, and a new trailer for Taken. On the opposite side of the spectrum we have the first trailers for Disney’s Bolt and The Tale of Despereaux.

RocknRolla

This is the Guy Ritchie that we all know and love, and I have been waiting for this for a long time. It looks like a true return to form for him, in the style of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels which is perhaps his best film – I loved Brad Pitt in Snatch but overall it was slightly less good. This entire film looks amazing and even though it feels like he has pretty much just remade lock stock with a slight plot change, I am extremely excited.

Taken

Liam Neeson is Hardcore.That has to be one of the coolest lines/moments in trailer history – it gave me goosebumps of an epic scale which hasn’t happened since the trailer for 300. It was also co-written and developed by Luc Besson who I have always admired and who has an amazing eye for great action. This movie is going to be amazing.

Bolt

This started out so cheesy and bad that I almost groaned out loud, but then it turns out that the film isn’t actually like that and I actually started to think positively. This film looks surprisingly funny and the characters are not completely stereotypical. This is something that I may end up renting but I doubt I would see it in theaters.

The Tale of Despereaux

So this looks like your average animated children’s film, and oddly similar in theme to Ratatouille – and no it wasn’t just the rodent aspect. Both are about the odd one out who aspires for greater things, and talks to humans (gasp!). Nothing really caught my eye during this trailer but I have to say that the scene near the end with the teacher talking to his parents had me laughing pretty hard.

~ by Hobbes on June 27, 2008.