Trailer Watch: Catch Up Edition

Due to missing last week's Trailer Watch I am going to do a speed round this week with multiple trailers:

Hancock
The lone blockbuster to come out on July 4th this is year star the Independence Day movie king Will Smith and surprise surprise it's a superhero movie. Well actually it's more like an anti-superhero superhero movie. Smith plays a cranky vagabond begrudging superhero who is in need of an image makeover. The special effects look good and it has the potential of being funny (Will Smith + Jason Bateman = Funny).


Young People F-cking
A movie about young people fucking...go figure. This movie was so popular at the Toronto Film Festival you would have assumed it was about hockey.


Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
A new full length trailer for the next installment of the Narnia films. This trailer definitely makes the film appear to be darker than the first Narnia film. One interesting note on these movies; production has already begun on the third installment The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, but Disney has made no mention of anything beyond that (there are 7 books in the series). In fact Disney has already ramped up their efforts on another multi-film franchise, which pretty much shows they have no faith in the Narnia movies.


Henry Poole Is Here
A dramedy starring Luke Wilson as Henry Poole, a guy who becomes locally famous when believe start to believe they can see an image of Jesus on the side of his house. The movie follows Poole as he learns to deal with his new found fame and faith. The movie reminds me of another quirky dramedy, Stranger Than Fiction, which I really enjoyed.


Hamlet 2
At $10 Million this was the big sale at Sundance. Hamlet 2 is an irreverent comedy about a high school drama teacher looks to motivate his students and save his department by writing a sequel to Shakespeare's "Hamlet". Steve Coogan plays the Dana Marsch, the drama teacher in question. Marsch is a character who is keenly aware of the heroic teachers in films like Dangerous Minds & Lean on Me, in fact he truly believe he is one of them...but he is not. I am a fan of any movie in which Amy Poehler says "The so called Supreme Court can suck my balls!". I should also mention that Hamlet 2 is written by the same people who worked on Team America: World Police and many many South Park episodes, so you know what to expect.