A new international trailer for Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood has hit over at Yahoo’s UK site, and it’s a great deal more revealing/intriguing/well put-together than the first domestic teaser we caught a week ago. I guess not everything is better with a generic metal soundtrack. Anyway, in the new trailer we get lots more archery and a better look at the role Maid Marian will play. What is it about Cate Blanchett that, despite being 120 pounds soaking wet, makes me believe she could swing a sword with the rest of the boys? Maybe it’s her Australian-ness. I think this deserves further study.

Check out the trailer, and the newly released synopsis for the film, after the jump.

Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richard’s army against the French. Upon Richard’s death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marion, a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marion and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff. With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure. This unlikeliest of heroes and his allies set off to protect their country from slipping into bloody civil war and return glory to England once more.

Robin Hood hits American shores on May 14, 2010.

Tags: Cate Blanchett, Ridley Scott, Robin Hood, Russell Crowe, Trailer