Trailer Hitch

By Kim Hollis

October 14, 2009

Uh oh. Some kid somewhere is going to cry.

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Welcome to Trailer Hitch, BOP's look at the latest movie trailers to hit the Internet. This week: the Toys are back in town, Pedro and Penelope team up yet again, Nic Cage acts weird(er), Sly Stallone and friends get violent and Heath Ledger has his swan song.

Toy Story 3

I'm not ashamed to admit that I almost cried when I watched this trailer, but I'm wondering when Pixar is going to give me a break. I mean, c'mon, Pixar. I can accept that I cried twice during WALL-E. It's even okay with me that I actually was bawling within the first ten minutes of Up. But now, you're making me cry just with your trailers? Hoo boy.

Just as the first two movies foreshadowed, the toys are now dealing with the fact that Andy has grown up and he's headed off to college. We see some very poignant moments as a montage plays with young Andy enjoying Woody, Buzz and the gang, but then it fades to his mother asking him what he's going to do with them now that he's moving away. *sniffle*

The humor is quickly ratcheted up, though, as the gang freaks out about their future. "Let's see how much we're going for on eBay," says Hamm. But our friends are not headed for a collector - that was soooooo Toy Story 2. Instead, they're donated to a nursery full of drooling kids. The ignominy of it all is so great that the toys decide they will bust out...which naturally leads to such hilarious results as Buzz having to be reset (in turn, this leads to him speaking Spanish and doing a flamenco).

Toy Story 3 has one of the finest trailers I've ever seen from Pixar. It tells the audience everything they need to know and does an excellent job of conveying the notion that the studio never seems to lose a beat. Can they pull off a third film that is as wonderful as Toy Story and Toy Story 2? That remains to be seen, but everything in this preview tells me they've got it. Again.

Trailer Grade: A




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Broken Embraces

Director Pedro Almodovar maintains his winning relationship with Penelope Cruz as she is at the center of his new thriller. The trailer doesn't reveal terribly much. We see that Cruz's character is leaving an older man, and that another older woman is trying to piece together a mystery. Instead, the preview aims for style, showing us some really fantastic looking shots and framing, as well as highlighting a fine job by the costume department as they style Cruz in an array of different looks. There are a number of quotes from reviews that flash across the screen, promising the viewer that Broken Embraces is a continuation of the success Almodovar and Cruz have been finding together (The Cannibalistic Councillor, Volver, All About My Mother), and I see no reason I shouldn't believe them. I just wish the preview had given me a little bit more to go on, but the look of the film is certainly noir-ish and appealing.

Trailer Grade: B-


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