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I thought Date Night was supposed to be a relationship comedy?
The trailer for the Shawn Levy-directed flick starring Steve Carell and Tina Fey seems to prove otherwise, as we get an action-packed couple of minutes featuring gangsters, gunshots, and car chases galore. I’m suddenly less enthusiastic about the film itself, but the superb cast is still enough to keep me at least cautiously curious. After sharing so many comedy nights on NBC together, we’re long overdue for a Carell-Fey pairing.
Hit the jump to see Carell and Fey, as well as Common, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, and Mila Kunis start some ruckus in the Date Night trailer. Apple also has it in HD.
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A new teaser has arrived for Despicable Me, an animated comedy featuring Steve Carell as the world’s #2 supervillain, Gru.
The first teaser for Despicable Me was amusing enough, but didn’t entirely enlighten us as to its plot. The second teaser sheds a bit more light, but it’s still fairly vague when it comes to story. It paints the story as if Gru is on a mission to unseat Vector, the apparent #1 supervillain in the world. However, according to the official synopsis, the film actually follows Gru on a mission to steal the moon, a mission that gets interrupted when he runs into 3 orphaned girls and they see in him something no one else has ever seen: a potential Dad.
Check out the somewhat underwhelming teaser, which popped up on Apple, after the jump: Read»
To be honest, I’ve been a little ambivalent up til now about seeing Dreamworks Animation’s How To Train Your Dragon. My one prevailing interest in the project has been the involvement of Chris Sanders and Dean DuBois, the creative team behind Lilo & Stitch and American Dog, an animation project that was eventually scrapped for parts and recycled into Bolt. I just wasn’t sold on the premise alone, but after seeing this trailer, consider me a little intrigued.
The story, as you may already know, concerns a young Viking named Hiccup who lives on the island of Berk. Fighting dragons is a way of life here, and despite his smaller size, he is desperate to prove his worthiness during Initiation to both his fellow tribesman and his father. When he finally gets his big shot however, he finds himself instead befriending an injured dragon, an act that turns his world upside down. What works best in the trailer is the relationship between Hiccup and Toothless, the young dragon he spares (some footage here is probably rough, as Toothless goes from being toothed to gummy between shots). You can already sense the hijinks these two will get into, and the somewhat strangely-matched voice acting by Jay Baruchel soon wins you over with his dry, deadpan humor.
Yahoo’s got the trailer, which you can check out after the jump. Read»
Adventureland is worth the price of admission. Read»
