How else to explain the fact that the new New Moon trailer has debuted in France before America than to assume French Twilighters are considered better and more deserving than those in the U.S.? Or, is this just part of the continued teaserific marketing strategy from Summit? After yesterday’s trailer teaser ridiculousness, I wouldn’t put it past them, even if the thing was unofficial, recorded on video cam inside a theater and removed for copyright reasons later today. If Summit is really into teasing and whetting appetites, it was likely enough, considering any true Twilight fan would have been attentive enough to see the thing on any number of websites posting it this morning.

Anyway, since the trailer isn’t accessible anymore*, I’ve got nothing else to say about it — not that I know enough about the franchise to comment adequately anyway. I can at least share a screen capture of some bits that I found on a blog called My Twilife. So enjoy that little tease on the right there.

Let’s see what the film blogs are saying about this latest nibble for the impatient fans after the jump:

• Adam Rosenberg at MTV Movies Blog believes the leak was an act of vengeance:
  

  You know how, in “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” the Eiffel Tower kinda sorta gets destroyed? An act which results in the fantastic quote “the French are pretty upset.” This, my friends, is revenge. We trash their treasured monument in a summer blockbuster, they leak the trailer for one of the most anticipated movies of the year. Am I reach here for the sake of fostering controversy? Maybe. Is it still funny? Absolutely.

• Kyle Buchanan at Movieline wonders if the French dubbing makes the movie seem less cheesy, comparing it to a hilarious experiment he used to conduct:
  

  When I worked at a video store in college, one of my favorite things to do was to put a really cheesy DVD on the big TV but turn on English subtitles and French dubbing. Like clockwork, shoppers would stop to stare, wondering what sophisticated foreign film they had just discovered, before the sudden, jarring presence of Mariah Carey would alert them that it was Glitter.

• Will at NewMoonMovie.org tries to calm down his fellow fans while addressing legality:
  

  We’d love to post it, but the fact is it was taken by someone who filmed it in a theatre, which is illegal. It hasn’t yet been officially released.

  Besides, wouldn’t you rather see it in high def and with clear sound in your native language in just a few days?

• Amy Wilkinson at Hollywood Crush offers a translation of the dubbed-in-French trailer, for those who saw it and don’t know the language, or for those who missed it completely. Meanwhile, she hopes Americans get a better version:
  

  On a side note, I can’t help but wonder if this leaked French trailer is the same one that will debut (in English, obvi) this weekend before showings of Vanessa Hudgens’ “Bandlsam.” I’m hoping not, because the previously-seen-footage-to-new-juicy-footage ratio is just too small for my liking.

• FakerParis at Thinking of Rob also has a transcript, which people are alleging was plagiarized for MTVs. You know, because it would be impossible for two people to get the same result from Babelfish or whatever. Anyway, FakerParis’ version sure does make the trailer seem confusing. A snippet:
  

  Jacob: Has anyone ever shared a secret with you that you had to share with no one.

  Jacob: New Moon is much more complexe than Twilight.

  Edward: I’m leaving, you’ll never see me again.

  Jacob: Edward’s leaving makes Bella deeply depressive and Jacob becomes the friend on whom she can always rely.

• * Teaser-Trailer.com has found a few copies of the trailer that still work, including one that’s subtitled. Check those out below after reading what they have to say about the spot:
  

  The wolf pack is like on steroid! They’re huge! This second trailer of Twilight New Moon look so much better than what we have for the first opus of the Twilight Saga. There is no denying that Director Chris Weitz was really committed to make Twilight 2 a success!

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