As Hollywood coasts into the pre-summer doldrums, there isn’t a whole lot to get particularly pumped for, trailer-wise. The biggest release of the past week is “Dinner for Schmucks,” starring Paul Rudd and Steve Carell. Apparently, director Jay Roach (the “Austin Powers” series and “Meet the Parents/Fockers”) is dead set on recycling some old jokes and giving Rudd and Carell their first truly unfunny roles. The movie is a remake of the French film “Le dîner de cons,” the plot centers on a monthly dinner where high-powered executives invite idiots to a dinner and make fun of them. Despite some top-tier talent, there isn’t a laugh in this whole trailer.
If I was being interrogated by Samuel L. Jackson, I think I’d crack in less than a minute. Hell, you saw what the man can do with just a .45 and some Bible verses in “Pulp Fiction.” In “Unthinkable,” Jackson will be playing a black-ops interrogator who apparently employs some questionable and violent methods to extract information from a terrorist claiming to have planted bombs in the US. God only knows what Jackson will do with some pliers, sodium pentothal, and a feature-length runtime.
I present to you the trailer for “Step Up 3-D” not because I hate you, but because I have a shred of dignity left. Not much, but just enough to keep me from posting the new “Sex and the City 2” trailer instead. You may view that on your own time, somewhere far away from this blog. “Step Up 3-D” doesn’t offer much in the way of plot, although I suppose some inner city kids and a token yuppie find common ground by break dancing in a warehouse or something. But this time in 3-D! Featuring the finalists who didn’t make the cut on “So You Think You Can Dance?” and a soundtrack that resembles the latest “Now!” CD, “Step Up 3-D” will be violating a movie screen near you this August.
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