Turtles
It’s been a while since I watched any movie trailers I thought were worth writing about, but then two come along at once. The first is the one for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (or TMNT as it’s now to be known). When it starts up, there’s an immediate reaction of “oh, so it’s animated then,” which is probably a good thing, rather than the people in suits approach of the past couple of film releases. The next reaction is probably “and it looks pretty good too,” as the art direction and animation is pretty top-notch stuff, as the four Turtles run, jump, somersault and generally be acrobatic across the top of some city buildings. I’ll not mention how the trailer ends so you can enjoy it yourself, but as a teaser, it does enough to make me want to see more. You can view it here.
Secondly, the trailer for the new James Bond film, Casino Royale. I wasn’t even aware there was a trailer out for this thing, the online buzz has been pretty non-existent for this thing. What I had heard was that there was going to be some changes to the Bond formula, but you’d never know it from this, looks like Bond to me. Most of the shots seem to be taken from the same action scene, suggesting that not everything was quite in a showable state, but I guess it looks OK. I’m not 100% convinced by Daniel Craig as Bond though, I really think they should have just stuck with Brosnan for another time. You can view this one here.
