Trailer Park: Super-Duper Edition

The five trailers we’ve gathered for this edition of “Trailer Park” come from huge blockbusters, indie comedies, and other weird, low-budget things. Most of them either involve superheroes, have the word “Super” in the title, or both. All of them are fun to watch. BEGIN!

 

Super 8

Few trailers in recent memory have drawn the ecstatic reaction that the first full trailer for Super 8 has drawn from film geeks. It looks interesting, I suppose, and I’m glad to see a big-budget movie that isn’t based on anything in particular. However, I’m not sure I understand the level of fervor I’ve been hearing. Perhaps if I were a few years older (say, the right age to have seen ET in theaters) I would feel the same way. The movie itself looks like J.J. Abrams’ tribute to early Steven Spielberg. Beyond that it’s hard to tell. I highly recommend you check out the trailer for yourself below:

 
X-Men: First Class

After Wolverine I thought I was done with this franchise, but darn if this trailer doesn’t look completely awesome. You may remember the buzz a while back when it was discovered that Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) had made an old-school X-Men movie complete with the Hellfire Club as the villains. Check out the bit with the submarine at the end. Younger versions of Professor X and Magneto teaming up with Emma Frost to prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis? Yes, please. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Kevin Bacon, and Jennifer Lawrence headline the cast.

 
Conan the Barbarian

In what was probably an inevitability, a new version of the classic Burroughs hero is hitting theaters this Summer, with Jason Momoa of Stargate: Atlantis fame filling the Governator’s considerable shoes. The teaser trailer for this updated version is decidedly low on details, but I am skeptical of the fact that we see no actual footage here. The bargain-basement casting makes me they may not have spent that much money on this movie. However, this isn’t exactly a new production of Shakespeare here. I’m not sure how you could mess Conan up, but I have full confidence that Hollywood can find a way.

 
Super

We’ve seen plenty of superhero comedies, but based on this trailer Super isn’t quite like any of them. Rainn Wilson from The Office plays a regular schlub who decides to become a superhero called the Crimson Bolt (“SHUT UP, CRIME!”) in order to get back his wife (Liv Tyler) from a drug dealer played by Kevin Bacon. Ellen Page decides to become his teenage sidekick but she may actually be psychotic. All this from the brain of Slither director James Gunn. Plus apparently Nathan Fillion is in this movie! Enjoy:

 
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night

If you haven’t heard of Dylan Dog, apparently one of the world’s most popular comic series, it’s because it is in Italian. But don’t worry, the movie they made out of it is in English and “from the Producers of Terminator: Salvation”. Oh boy. This really looks terrible, doesn’t it? Sam Huntington from the American Being Human shows up as a zombie, and the entire production does look like something that would show up on a Saturday night on SyFy Channel. Except for Brandon Routh, who is always enjoyable but playing well below his level here. This may not really get a wide release in the States, but I’m confident you’ll find it somewhere soon.

 
Thanks to Trailer Addict for this week’s videos. See you next time!