This week in trailers we got a whole lot of fun. There's more from the double-the-pleasure Tom Hardy vehicle, Legend, the first promotional video for Camp Firewood's 1976 season (aka some Wet Hot action!), a comedy about best friends trying not to be sex friends (sorry Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher), and Lily Tomlin as the sardonic grandma you wished you'd had. It's the season of fluff, so let these good times tickle your funny bones. Except for that movie about being slaughtered in the rainforest. That one is probably scary and really gross.
Is that the voice of H. Jon Benjamin beckoning us to Camp Firewood?! We're so ready for the summer of our lives!
Pause at: 0:16. Hay, gang! Accidents happen at 0:22. Chris Meloni's hair at 0:39! So turned on at 0:51.
Essential Quote: "Camp Firewood is an idea, a promise, a way of life."—Can of Vegetables (H. Jon Benjamin)
We brought you the Legend teaser when it came out last month, and as excited as we got about two Tom Hardys then, we're even more excited now! This trailer gives us some more substance, and a much more thorough introduction to the Brothers Kray, who apparently cut a bloody swath through London as gangsters in the 1960s. Hardy is a one-man acting clinic, and the chance to watch him play opposite himself as a set of twins is something we should all be grateful for.
Pause at: 0:37 for the scarier Kray; we think. 2:23 for everything you need.
Song: Imagine Dragons, "I'm So Sorry"
Essential Quote: "Reggie was the gangster prince of the East End. Ron Kray was a one-man mob."—Frances Shea (Emily Browning)
The Heroes are back, but this time they don't have to worry about any damn cheerleader! A terrorist attack in Odessa, Texas has forced people with abilities to go underground, and that's where we rejoin our special friends as they realize their powers, meet others like them, and fight The Man (or some version of The Man). Hiro (Masi Oka), Parkman (Greg Grunberg), Suresh (Sendhil Ramamurthy), The Haitian (Jimmy Jean-Louis) and H.R.G. (Jack Coleman) are back, but other than that it's mostly new faces on the Heroes beat. But don't worry, there's still a powerful and mysterious teenage girl in the form of actress Danika Yarosh. We'll miss you Hayden Panettiere!
Pause at: 0:28. Is that you, Noah Bennett? HiroBomb at 0:50!
Song: Creepy cover of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters"
Essential Quote: "You ever get the feeling that you were meant to do something extraordinary?"
Oh boy oh boy! Here comes another Eli Roth special! We hadn't seen a feature-length directorial effort from Roth since Hostel: Part II in 2007, and here in 2015 we've got a double down with Inferno and the Sundance special Knock Knock. But the caveat is that Inferno was done in 2013 and it's been in a kind of turnaround hell since then. No matter, though. He's back with something that isn't Hemlock Grove, and that's the most important thing. And besides Roth, the common thread between Knock Knock and this one is its star, Lorena Izzo, who as the director's paramour has really been put through it on screen! This time around she plays Justine, a naïve college girl who's going to save the rainforest with a bunch of hippies. Because this isn't the 1970s, none of them probably imagined they'd get captured by a possibly cannibalistic indigenous tribe of jungle people, but since Eli Roth is in charge here, they really should have known better. Behold the carnage, if you're into that sort of thing.
Pause at: 0:53 for the lucky one. Serious Cannibal Holocaust notes at 1:21.
Song: Cover of Roy Orbison's "Beautiful Dreamer"
Essential Quote: "You can't just go invade a country just because they're doing something we think is immoral."—Justine's Dad, Charles (Richard Burgi)
Huge high five to Kit Harington for taking a role like this when he's not brooding under 600 pounds of fur on Game of Thrones. Harington plays Charles Poole, a British tennis prodigy who locked horns on the turf with American bad boy Aaron Williams (Andy Samberg) for a grueling, soul-crushing, unprecedented week-long five-setter at some point in tennis history. There was racket throwing, blood loss, on-court sex, and even death. These are their stories.
Pause at: 0:06 for Aaron's sister. "Reverse Blind Side" at 0:37.
Essential Quote: "Second serve now, after killing a man."
On the strength of this cast alone it's already one of the best films of the year: Lily Tomlin, Sam Elliott, Marcia Gay Harden, Laverne Cox, Judy Greer, John Cho. OK, so even if it's not exactly legend status, it did get very warm reviews coming out of Sundance this year, and that's not nothing. Let's all go see Tomlin be the sassiest grandma there ever was!
Pause at: 0:35 for Grandma Elle's ex, and then at 0:38 for another ex, and then at 0:41 for another. Stop at 0:49 to see Grandma take care of business.
Song: Oil Boom, "One-Time Used-To-Be"
Essential Quote: "Why didn't you use a condom? Or for humanity's sake get a vasectomy?"—Grandma Elle (Tomlin)
If we're going to watch two sex addicts humorously struggle to maintain a strictly abstinent friendship and spend time doing things like going to a kid's birthday party on mushrooms, it should definitely be Jason Sudeikis and Alison Brie on screen. Put another check in the "Sundance sex comedies!" column. It's the summer of lust!
Pause at: 0:45. Natasha Lyonne is always perfect. Under the influence at 1:28. Definitely not a couple at 2:01. Mustache Adam Scott at 2:14 is not our favorite Adam Scott.
Song: Chela, "Romantics" and The Echo Friendly, "Fuck It and Whatever"
Essential Quote: "Will you take drugs with me and go to a kid's birthday party?"—Jake (Jason Sudeikis)
