The first half of this week saw a drought as far as new trailers are concerned. But when it rains it pours, and by the end of day Thursday the internet had received a relative monsoon of debuts, including the now-official release of the Sex and the City trailer, which Karina prematurely peeked at last Friday, and another awesome ad for Iron Man.
But the truly noteworthy trailers had to be those for three eagerly anticipated comedies, two of which we are seeing for the first time. First, there’s The Love Guru, which stars Mike Myers as his first originally created comedic character in more than ten years. Unfortunately, it kind of makes me wish he would just keep making Austin Powers movies. Maybe I just don’t get it, and maybe I should just accept that a Myers comedy is less about it and more about him. But it doesn’t look that funny. And I’m a person who can appreciate the making fun of Extreme and the parodying of Bollywood and the ridiculing of little people.
Next, we have the first look at Step Brothers, which reunites Talladega Nights co-stars Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly and writer-director Adam McKay. This is a perfectly timed trailer, obviously. Ferrell has a new movie out today, and this will certainly be showing ahead of that. But the trailer could be bad news for moviegoers this weekend, because I bet a lot of people seeing Semi-Pro are going to wish they were seeing Step Brothers instead. Sure, they both look like typical examples of the Will Ferrell brand of comedy, but there’s no arguing that the future release looks much funnier — and likely is much funnier. No duo does stupid better together than Ferrell and Reilly. They’ve pretty much made the idea of a straight man obsolete (who ever liked Dick Smothers, Bud Abbott or Margaret Dumont anyway?).
Finally, here’s the latest trailer for Get Smart, another vehicle for comedian comedy, this one starring Steve Carell. Yeah, it’s also a remake of a television series — one of my childhood favorites, actually. But really it’s just a showcase for Carell to be a buffoon. The problem is that the Maxwell Smart kind of stupidity and obliviousness is kind of lame and stale when compared to the ludicrously immature morons of a movie like Step Brothers.
