It doesn't surprise me that Paramount decided to release the full trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender shortly after their Super Bowl spot, having last year given the same treatment to Transformers 2. Unfortunately it's just too early to tell if the film will be any good, or if it will have enough hype to survive up against the collosus that is The Twilight Saga, whose third installment releases less than a week before Airbender. This trailer does give us a better glimpse of what to expect from the film than the tv spot did. I'm not going to comment on M. Night Shyamalan. I'm just going to comment on what I saw in the trailer.
The Visual Effects are amazingly executed, and the cinematography is breathtaking. The cause for skepticism is that it's based on a Nickelodeon cartoon for children, and the main characters are therefore children. I can't tell right now how good the young actors will be. Katara (The girl) looks like a toddler and speaks much like one as well, Aang (The titular last airbender) is bald and doesn't speak in this trailer, and Sokka (the older brother of Katara) is played by Jackson Rathbone from Twilight. Dev Patel is going to be awesome no matter what, and Aasif Manvi from The Daily Show plays the main villain. I just hope that the script isn't as cheesy as the dialogue in the trailer, which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-rfLIfuDyI
The second big trailer is the trailer for Pixar's next film, Toy Story 3. The biggest difference between this film and The Last Airbender is that I already know that this film is going to be amazing. The fact that it's a Pixar film already affirms it's status as an instant classic. Pixar spends usually four years making a film before it reaches the big screen, but it took them over 10 years to make this movie. They knew how much this film meant and they wanted to get it right. They scrapped tons of story ideas looking for the right one, and the one they finally landed on doesn't seem to tread over too many of the trends of the last two films.
Written by Michael Arndt, who won an academy award for his script of Little Miss Sunshine, the film see's our group of toys sent off to a day care to be terrorized by infants, and plotted against by the toys already taking residence at sunnyside. The film journeys off into beautiful new territories. I spent a good 10 minutes looking at the plush toy bear and admiring the intricacy of it. There's plenty of jokes in the trailer, some of which seem a little too comical, straying us into thinking that this film may not be as deep and touching as other Pixar films. I still have no doubt this film will be great. Here's the trailer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMpa5yBf5o
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