By Kim Voynar Voynar@moviecitynews.com
Fun with 3-D Trailers
Last night, I went to the midnight screening of Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, which you can read all about over here, if you’re so inclined. What was almost more interesting to me than the movie — forgive me, experience — itself, though, was the spate of 3-D previews that preceded the film. It was kind of like an extended animated warm-up act for the Big Show, and some of the previews were more interesting than others.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due for release now in July, looks promisingly dark and scary, as it should, given the nature of the storyline. I unabashedly love the Harry Potter books and have read the entire series multiple times. Half-Blood Prince is directed by David Yates, who did a solid job with the previous film, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and is set to direct the two-part series finale, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Parts I and II. The trailer looks great, and with every film I’m struck by how much the three young leads — Daniel Radcliffe in particular — have grown through the series, not just physically, which of course one would expect, but in their range of acting skills. Can’t wait for July 17, and you can bet I’ll be at the midnight early screening with my daughter for that one.
There was a trailer for Monsters Vs. Aliens, which my pack of kids are eager to see, and also a trailer for G-Force, which, on the surface, sounds pretty banal — a squad of super-intelligent, special forces … guinea pigs (and a fly) try to save the world from an evil rich guy. And yet, my interest was piqued when I saw that Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot are listed in the “screenplay” credits, along with Tim Firth (who penned the smart Calendar Girls and Kinky Boots before tackling Confessions of a Shopaholic). Marianne and Cormac Wibberly, the screenwriting husband-and-wife team responsible for the scripts for both National Treasure Films and the 2006 remake of The Shaggy Dog are also credited, which would be concerning, but the presence of Rossio, Elliot and Firth does give one hope that it won’t completely suck.
There’s an all-star cast voicing the admittedly cute super-guinea pigs, including Nic Cage, Penelope Cruz, Sam Rockwell, Bill Nighy, Steve Buscemi and more, and the animation looks pretty spiffy, so hopefully it will end up being better than it looks based on the pitch. Not that you can (or should) judge a film just by its trailer, anymore than you can judge a film by it’s script, but this one might be cute.
Wish the Jonaboys would get a life and stop faking the orgiastic looks on their faces when they perform.
*snort*
T Holly, you made me laugh so suddenly I nearly choked to death on my sammich.
I was bleching before the “questionable moment when the boys grab giant foam guns,”!!!