Today we have friends doing a little of the ol' "Jump on the good foot, and do the bad thing" (don't bother googling it), cheating dead ex-wives, salt water lake sharks (or shLarks, as I like to call them), and a 3D update of an animated franchise that no one wanted. Enjoy!
First up is 'Friends with Benefits' from director Will Gluck ('Easy A'). The film stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as two friends, Dylan and Jamie, who decide to add sex to their friendship and quickly discover that being friends with benefits makes things a lot more complicated. If this plot sounds a little familiar, it's because it's nearly the exact same plot as the Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman film 'No Strings Attached' that was just released in theaters a couple months ago (a fact that Timberlake even spoke of during his recent appearance on SNL). Surely Hollywood would never allow a movie that seems like a complete rip-off of another movie to exist, right? We all know that Hollywood is a veritable bastion of original thinking and outside-the-box creative thinking! *cough..* Sarcasm aside, we'll just have to wait until 'Friends with Benefits' hits theaters on July 22nd to see how similar the two films really are.
Next up is the trailer for 'The Descendants', the latest film from Oscar-winner Alexander Payne ('Sideways' and 'About Schmidt'). Floating between dark humor and tragic drama, 'Descendants' stars George Clooney as Matt King, a less-than-perfect father who must care for his two daughters when his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. While struggling to be the parent she was, he is suddenly confronted with her infidelity and is forced to re-think his past and embrace his future. The film will be in theaters December 16th.
Just a few days after the premiere of the first poster, Relativity Media has released the full trailer for 'Shark Night 3D'. Plans for a sexy summer weekend get ripped to shreds when a group of college co-eds are attacked by salt water lake sharks while enjoying their stay at a lake house. Director David R Ellis ('Snakes on a Plane') once again brings us a slightly tongue-in-cheek style horror film, full of genetic lottery winners trying to sleep with each other while simultaneously finding increasingly more incredulous reasons to go back into the water. The film stars Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Joel David Moore, Chris Zylka and Katharine McPhee and will be in theaters September 2nd.
Oh, not this smurfing movie... what can I say? The latest childhood franchise to fall prey to a poor live-action-meets-3D remake, 'The Smurfs' will be in theaters July 29th and stars Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Sofia Vergara, and Hank Azaria, as well as the voices of Anton Yelchin, Jonathan Winters, Katy Perry, Jeff Foxworthy, George Lopez... basically as many celebrities and mid-level actors and comedians as they could find to try and bring some kind of legitimacy to a project about little blue people running around New York City and commenting on as many pop culture references as they can while fleeing the evil wizard Gargamel. Thankfully, we don't even have to be snide about it and make a joke about how there will likely be singing and dancing - they just went ahead and put it right there in the trailer for us. Seriously, smurf this movie. Right in the smurfing B-Hole.
So... what do you think of this "Trailer-Bomb"? Which movies are you looking forward to and which to you hate? Let me know!!
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