Trailer Trash

It’s been a pretty big week for trailer spotters as several highly anticipated spots for big summer movies have hit the internet (not to mention the movie theatres). So here’s looking at three big titles new to the proverbial trailer park.

First, there’s the superhero sequel Iron Man 2. Scheduled to be released on May 7th, Iron Man sees Robert Downey Jr. return as the Armoured Avenger (and his alter ego Tony Stark) as he faces a showdown with the U.S. government over possession of the Iron Man armour, while dealing with the revenge-minded new villain on the scene, Whiplash (an electro-whip bearing Mickey Rourke).

This trailer gives us an expanded look at several of the film’s new characters, including Tony Stark rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), Russian spy Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), and the War Machine armour donned by Col. Rhodes (Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard from part one). And, if all that isn’t enough to convince you, the action looks pretty cool too.

Next there’s Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, a film that has been unable to get any real buzz going since the first trailer for it premiered last fall. It seemed just a little too much like King Arthur meets Gladiator for the taste of many, and not helping that comparison is the fact that it stars the Gladiator himself Russell Crowe. The jury’s still out on this Hood, but the new trailer certainly makes the film seem more engaging than the teaser did. At the very least, we should get something better and more faithful than Prince of Thieves.

One can be forgiven if they don’t get excited about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, all things Twilight are, after all, an acquired taste. But while the New Moon trailer took the lousiest book of the series and made in seem wicked with werewolf transformation, bare-chest vampire brawling and music by Two Steps from Hell, the Eclipse trailer takes what is arguably the best book of the series and gives it the Twilight pout. At any rate, let’s hope the finished film is better than the trailer