TRAILERS

As summer keeps progressing and camp continues, I keep getting busier and busier.  Luckily I do have a little bit of a break right now and so I'll de-stress by doing a little bit of catch up.  I still have reviews of 'Fault In Our Stars', 'How To Train Your Dragon 2', '22 Jump Street' and 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' to write up, but since those take a little bit more time to do today I'll be talking about various trailers I've seen in theaters or online.  I try to talk about these when I write up a review, but with reviews getting delayed I just kinda forgot about which ones I got for a specific movie.  So this will have to do for now. 

• 'Annabelle' - Remember the creepy, life-size porcelain doll from the opening of 'The Conjuring'?  Well, that creepy doll is getting the spin-off treatment which will allegedly take place before the events of 'The Conjuring'.  The doll scene in the opening of 'The Conjuring' was honestly one of the creepier moments in that movie and this teaser trailer does show some promise.  Since I liked 'The Conjuring' a lot I probably will check this one out.  It could either be a scary good time like 'The Conjuring' or end up being ridiculously dumb and pointless.
  
  
• 'Dumb and Dumber To' - Twenty years after the original movie came out, Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels and the Farrelly Brothers are at it again with Harry and Lloyd teaming up to search for Harry's long lost daughter.  Once again, we have a trailer that shows promise.  I wasn't a huge fan of the original movie but I did laugh and was grossed out while watching this trailer.  So.....it succeeded with it's goals I guess.  It could potentially be funny and gross or just gross and painfully unfunny.
  
   
• 'Fifty Shades of Grey' - Oh yes.  The rather infamous novel that started off life as "Twilight" fan fiction and is more famous for it's..........controversial subject matter than it's critical reviews is getting a film adaptation set for Valentine's Day 2015.  The only person I could recognize from the trailer was Dakota Johnson as reporter Anastasia Steele, who I've only ever seen in a brief five-minute appearance in 'The Social Network'.  As far as how this trailer looked.....um.....well I've seen worse.  Just a LOT of creepy undertones and heavily implied.......activities.  All done to a rather strange version of Beyonce's "Crazy In Love".  Like I said, I've seen worse trailers for movies.  After watching it I just kinda felt "Well.....that happened". 
  

• 'The Hobbit:  The Battle of the Five Armies' - The third and final 'Hobbit' movie.  I didn't care much for 'Unexpected Journey', but I thought 'Desolation of Smaug' was a lot of fun and made me actually look forward to this movie.  And judging from the trailer....it looks like it'll be one epic finale.  I will still complain about 'The Hobbit' being split into three movies until I fall over and die, but this third installment actually does look pretty good.
  

• 'Horrible Bosses 2' - Yes, 'Horrible Bosses' is getting a sequel with most of the main cast returning, this time adding Christoph Waltz and Chris Pine to the cast and revolving around a kidnapping.  I thought the first movie was hilarious, and while this was only a two-minute teaser trailer I was still laughing out loud a lot.  Can't wait until November.
  

• 'The Interview' - Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's directorial follow-up to 'This Is The End' has James Franco and Seth Rogen as journalists who get an interview with Kim Jong-Un, who are then recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.  Looks to be a bit more satirical than laugh out loud funny, but I usually like Seth Rogen's movies so I'll probably check this out at some point.
  

• 'The Judge' - Robert Downey Jr. as a hotshot lawyer who comes home for his mother's funeral and ends up having to defend his estranged father (Robert Duvall), the town's judge who is accused of murder.  I remembered getting this trailer in front of 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' and it actually does look good.  With those two in the main cast you usually can't go wrong......usually.
  

• 'The Penguins of Madagascar' - Oh yes.  The scene-stealing penguins from the 'Madagascar' movies are finally getting a spin-off movie of their own.  Since they honestly are the best things about the 'Madagascar' movies (the less said about the TV show the better), you can bet that I'll be in the theater for this opening weekend. 
  

• 'This Is Where I Leave You' - Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, and Corey Stoll (from "House of Cards") are four siblings brought back together due to the death of their father.  Jane Fonda, Rose Byrne, Kathryn Hahn and Timothy Olyphant co-star.  I chuckled a few times during the trailer and the cast is likable enough that it might be worth checking out.
  
  
  
  Well, that's it for now.  Time to get back to work.