From the Dreamwork’s team that brought us How To Train Your Dragon, their new movie The Croods looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun. It will be coming out March of next year, and this new trailer shows a bit more about the new world they get into after their cave collapses. The first version of the new trailer evaporated off the server, hopefully this one remains…
Well, no actually; nothing genre comes out at all this week. So this could be an excellent time to catch up on anything still in theaters that you haven’t seen yet. Or maybe like me you might decide to see The Hobbit one more time. Whatever you decide, have a safe and sane holiday week.
Pacific Rim is definitely Guillermo del Toro’s homage to both flavors of the Japanese fascination with the gods; expressed as giant monsters or giant piloted robots as they have been in film and anime for decades. He didn’t choose, he went for both, and I think this movie is going to be a lot of fun. At least, the first time I saw this trailer, I shouted It’s Gojira Season right out loud and jumped up and down, wishing that I could be riding the god-robots with them to save the Earth. We have to wait until July of 2013 to see this one, but otaku that I am I am looking forward to it.
The Lone Ranger and his faithful sidekick Tonto started out on Radio in 1933, and ran about 40 shy of 3,000 episodes, ending in 1954, a mighty impressive run. The program had a spin-off in 1938, in which the Lone Ranger’s nephew Dan’s son, Britt Reid, became The Green Hornet with his faithful sidekick, Kato. Except, as we all know, Kato ended up becoming the hero in that one, and the Hornet the sidekick. There were several movie serial series in the late 30s and early 40s, in one of which he had a second sidekick named Juan who went on to become the Cisco Kid. I first ran into him with the TV Series When I was 4 years old, coming in about half way through its run, which lasted from 1949 to 1957. I can still remember the Lone Ranger movie in 1956, the first time I ever saw the show in color, TV being only black and white in those days. I can not wait to see what Johnny Depp does with the part of Tonto in the new Lone Ranger movie; even if they hose the whole rest of the film (not something I would expect from the crew which created the Pirates of the Caribbean series), that performance alone should be worth the price of admission, as this trailer tends to indicate.
We have a good one for Wednesday, in the form of the re-release of Monsters, Inc: 3D, a Pixar favorite of mine that has never before been available in a 3D format. I am afraid I am going to have to go see it, if for no other reason than to get ready for the new Monsters University. Although not quite genre, Jack Reacher is quite a twisty little murder mystery based on a great series of books. There are a boatload of other films this week, hopefully you will find the one you want to see in a theater near you.
Some folks will be seeing it at Midnight tonight, part one of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I can’t say I am terribly surprised their version of Misty Mountains didn’t sound anything like Lead Zeplin’s take on it.