Everyone is talking about this, so I feel a certain geeky obligation to post it for you guys.
I may potentially be feeling slightly more optimistic about this movie now than I did after the first trailer. Or at least I feel slightly less despair. I didn’t actually laugh at anything here, but I could see how what’s hinted here could possibly lead to some laughter. In the hands of the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs guys, maybe. Please.
Really really want Elizabeth Banks’ character to be more than a manic pixie dream girl please yes thank you
She looks to be more in the Quorra/Trinity mold.
More than that please! Mako Mori has given me expectations in character development…
Are your expectations now “have some”?
I’m not hopeful. :-(
Neither am I :C
I really, really want there to be more than one female character with lines and a name in the whole damn movie, but the trailer doesn’t make me hopeful for that, either.
(For fuck’s sake, Hollywood, my SIX-YEAR-OLD can figure out that if women are half the human race, they should be more than 1/10 of a movie’s significant characters, although her reasoning is a bit more simple. “That’s not fair!” No. No, it isn’t.)
The feel I’m getting is “yay, we can do movie clichés in Lego”. Which doesn’t seem like enough to sustain a full film. But we’ll see…
This is being received ecstatically on a number of sites I frequent. I have no idea why. Nothing in this trailer for a supposed comedy seems remotely funny to me, and even if they did intentionally include *all* of the cliches, they didn’t do anything *interesting* with them.
Lampshading isn’t comedy.