Tonight, we have three new trailers and two new posters. Trailers: African Cats, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son and Ong Bak 3; Posters: I Am Number Four and Ip Man 2.
AFRICAN CATS, trailer #2
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Plot Summary: DisneyNature’s third Earth Day documentary focuses on two families of Savannah felines, one leopard and one lion, as the fight for their survival. Release Date: April 22, 2011 |
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Rating: B+ Commentary: Focusing on the cute is a great selling point, but I believe I mentioned that with the first trailer. The only problem will be when parents get their kids to the documentary and find their kids asking about all the killing and maiming these cats are naturally going to do. |
Previous Preview: African Cats |
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Trailer Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview |
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ONG BAK 3, trailer #2
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Plot Summary: The third film in the Ong Bak trilogy finds Tony Jaa back in action battling the mysterious Demon Crow. Release Date: December 3, 2010 |
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Rating: C- Commentary: The music selection is terrible, the narration cheesy and the idea that this is the best martial arts trilogy of the last decade (only the last decade?) suggests they aren’t really trying hard to sell a film that isn’t likely to be very good (after all, how many martial arts trilogies have their really been over the last decade?). |
Previous Preview: Ong Bak 3 |
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Trailer Link: Apple Trailers Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview |
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BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
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Plot Summary: Going undercover again, a father takes his son into hiding to avoid a criminal trying to kill him. Release Date: February 18, 2011 |
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Rating: D+ Commentary: Just when you think an idiotic, waste-of-time series has gone to its limits, a sequel emerges that is as wholly pointless as the prior installments appears. |
Rating: None Commentary: I don’t review placeholders. |
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Trailer Link: Yahoo Movies Trailers Oscar Chances: None. |
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I AM NUMBER FOUR, poster #2
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Plot Summary: An alien teenager, hoping to settle down, but forced to flee from one town after another as he’s pursued by another alien race bent on killing him, finds love in his latest home and must fight to protect it. Release Date: February 18, 2011 |
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Previous Preview: Ip Man 2 |
Rating: C Commentary: After the first poster turned out to be pretty decent, this poster is a large step back. It’s extremely pretentious and overzealous. |
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Trailer Link: See Previous Preview Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview |
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IP MAN 2, poster
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Plot Summary: After escaping the Japanese occupation of his hometown of Foshan, China, Ip Man and his family have arrived in Hong Kong, which is living under the iron fist of British colonial rule. Ip wants to support his family by opening up a martial arts academy to teach his unique Wing Chun style. But a corrupt cabal of Hong Kong martial arts masters, led by Hung Chun-nam, refuses to allow Ip to teach. Release Date: January 28, 2011 |
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Previous Preview: I Am Number Four |
Rating: C- Commentary: This looks a bit like the poster for Ong Bak 3 and several other martial arts films. Lack of originality does not win you cookies. |
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Trailer Link: See Previous Preview Oscar Chances: See Previous Preview |
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