Trailer remakes seem to be all the rage now — the Dark Knight with kids clip I posted last month is getting a lot of mileage lately — and this week Indy Mogul premiered its parody of the full Pineapple Express trailer, for a fake movie titled “Banana Express.” Here’s the quick synopsis: a gorilla (Seth Rogen) and his banana dealer (James Franco) go on the run after the former witnesses a zookeeper murdering a fellow gorilla.
It may not be the funniest thing you see this week, but you have to give them credit for attempting to “ape” the Pineapple Express trailer shot for shot (Indy Mogul links to the original trailer and welcomes you to compare the two videos) and for including their own parody of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes” titled “Banana Peels & Bombs”, which can be downloaded from Indymogul.com. Think you could do better? In 36 hours? I’m anxious to see other trailer remakes and parodies, so bring ‘em on.
I think this is also a round about spoof on the 2005 film The Ape:
http://www.spout.com/films/272211/default.aspx
James Franco directed and starred in the movie, he plays an aspiring writer who can’t finish his book because his wacky ape roommate keeps pulling hi-jinks. Seriously.
Thanks for the awesome blog post, Chris! Just wanted to give you a heads up on the side by side comparison clip we posted. We put a lot of time into matching as many shots as we could, and this showcases it pretty well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UPDBEiY69g