The Wolf Pack is back, darker and less funny than ever. Alright, there were a few laughs in this trailer, but mostly I am trying to figure out how I would muster any desire to spend another two hours with these characters. My love for the first Hangover is deep and everlasting but I hated the second movie. It felt very stale and just plain not funny.
They are back in Vegas and the "epic conclusion" to the trilogy looks hella dark. There are funerals, actual prisons and much more. Also, I have trouble in finding humor in a giraffe getting decapitated, but hey, maybe I've just turned into a bit of an old square. Sue me.
The good news is we know this is finally the end.
If they made it actually dark, with barely any jokes and just had this depressing 2 hour movie for the finale of the hangover series, I'd be fine with that kind of crazy direction.
This just looks the dumb kind of dark.
What was that?
For most of that trailer I agree, it looks like a darker movie than the previous two (and in my opinion they should have just gone out with only one sequel in Vegas) but with random sprinklings of strange slapstick and silliness. How am I supposed to buy into another "adventure" of these guys getting drugged when there is a scene of one of the killing a giraffe he is somehow hauling on the interstate.
Just seems like a weird movie altogether.
The best way or them to do this is that there is no hangover and they are dealing with more of the aftermath of the first Hangover. I do enjoy the chaos of these movies but I'm glad that they are ending with this.
The movie opens in less than three months and this is the first trailer they've released!?!
@VioletEyedDragon: I didn't see a Jack and the Giant Slayer trailer until the week before release.
I imagine this will still get crazy dumb press as it approaches.
@VioletEyedDragon: I think it is not the best sign as it means they probably had to do a lot of "work" before releasing. I also find it interesting that they tagged it a "teaser" trailer, but it's a full two minutes.
@FinalDasa: I'd consider you extremely lucky then. My theater had been playing it for a couple months, it was also in malls which made me dislike malls even more.
So what are the odds they actually do something original-ish plot wise and not just do the Hangover again only back in Vegas? I'm kind of ambvelant to it at this point, Hangover 1 was pretty awesome never wanted to see a sequel then it happened. I feel good for having not seen it.
@FinalDasa said:
JACK THE GIANT SLAYER had its first trailer eleven months before its release, back when it was called JACK THE GIANT KILLER. It kept releasing trailer after trailer (like with GREEN LANTERN) each with a different tone. But i guess they didn't start paying for many TV advertisements until late in the game.
@staceywi said:
yeah it is weird that it is two minutes. And I get a feeling from the marketing starting now and the jumbled, plotless nature of this trailer that the movie is probably not even close to being edited into something coherent and Phillips will have to rush to meet the deadline.
@staceywi: The idea of a teaser trailer is rather meaningless now. Like ten years ago, a teaser trailer wouldn't have any footage from the movie.