Three Cheers for Three Moderately Amusing Trailers!

Up first is what seems like the one millionth Simpsons Movie trailer, and the first one that seems to really hammer the real movie clips instead of all the previous teasers, which mostly seemed more like standalone pre-movie short films.



Next we have Jamie Kennedy's Kickin' it Old Skool, which tells the story of a young champion breakdancer who knocks himself into a coma and wakes up in present day and has to come to terms with the fact that he grew up in the 80s, a decade already more outdated than the one that preceded it. It's unknown if the archaic trailer narration is trying to replicate that particular era, or if it's just that bad. As for the movie itself, it seems to just be harvesting joke ideas from Big, Austin Powers, and everything in between, but it still manages to squeeze in some half-decent jokes, like the fact that the hero's main regret about being in a coma for 15 years is that he missed the sequels to his favorite childhood films. Further hope for the film lies in the more-than-capable supporting cast which includes Christopher McDonald and Ferris Bueller's Alan Ruck.



Speaking of rip-offs, we wrap up with Eagle vs. Shark, the hyped-up New Zealand comedy starring one half of the popular musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords. Nearly every notice for the movie makes comparisons to Napoleon Dynamite, which makes all too much sense now that this new trailer is out, which features gawky absurdist characters, bright retro colors, wacky doodles, and even nunchucks. The blatant similarities are pretty unfortunate, since on its own terms it looks like it has some pretty damn funny stuff, mainly coming from a subplot where the NZ Napoleon takes his new girlfriend with him to try to murder his former high school bullyer.