More Trailers: Shrek Forever After, The Bounty Hunter, The Runaways

Shrek Forever After (2010) Movie, The Bounty Hunter (2010) Movie, The Runaways (2010) movie, Videos — By Nix on December 18, 2009 |

With new trailers for glitzy, expensive productions like “Clash of the Titans”, “Robin Hood”, and “Iron Man 2″ all hitting the net this week, it’s easy to forget that there were other new movies that also launched their first official trailers. Here are three of the new ones you might have missed over the week.

The first one is for the Jennifer Aniston-Gerard Butler action-comedy “The Bounty Hunter”, although IMDB.com has it listed as “The Bounty”. It’s your typical run-of-the-mill “they fell out of love but it takes running from the bad guys to make them fall back in love” movie you’ve seen a few gazillion times before, except this time with Aniston and Butler. Should do well with the ladies if the studio properly uses it as counter-programming for whatever is opening up the same week. From director Andy Tennant, and opening March 19, 2010.

The fourth installment of “Shrek” shows up May 21, 2010 as “Shrek Forever After”.

After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, whats an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. Whats happened to this ogre’s roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a “real ogre,” Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it’s up to Shrek to undo all he’s done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love.

I haven’t followed the series since the first movie, but this sequel looks vaguely funny. Hopefully they’ll stop at number 4, because let’s face it, having the ugly ogre as the hero has started to lose its novelty.

Kristen Stewart puts away all that longing for pale, sickly looking pretty boys to rock out as Joan Jett in Floria Sigismondi’s “The Runaways”. The film also includes Stewart’s “Twilight” co-star Dakota Fanning, playing Cherie Currie, whose memoir “Neon Angel” the movie is based on. Just like real-life rock-n-roll girl bands, are there really that much demand for bio films about rock-n-roll-girl bands? By the way, the voiceover saying how the band is going to “tear this world apart”? Funniest line I’ve ever heard in a movie yet. They’re a rock-n-roll band, not renegade nuclear scientists, moron. Runaway March 19, 2010.