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Apparently this movie already came out in April of this year, not that it matters as I never intend on seeing it. This trailer presents a new genre I’m inventing called the Wes Anderson Generic. We all know the Wes Anderson film, it’s a story about unlikely love, unlikely situations and characters that say what we all mean to say. I like Wes Anderson films. I like Wes Anderson trailers. The Generic is all of those elements but without the spark that Anderson brings to the table.

All this trailer offers is a preview for a movie we’ve all seen a thousand times, but this time it’s taking place in a mattress store, some guy is adopting a baby from China (hello Madonna shout out), and nobody apparently has enough care to emote about it. Quite frankly, neither do I. At any given moment in watching this trailer, “I don’t care about this” resonates in my mind so frequently that it actually overlaps itself creating a broken record of apathy.

Just a side note in terms of cast. I have yet to see Zooey Deschanel in a convincing role, trailer, film or otherwise. Maybe it’s her distracting bug-like eyes, but her delivery is all like “I’m totally delivering this line right now.” Furthermore, I imagine this movie wouldn’t have even gotten a trailer if it wasn’t for the presence of John Goodman.

This trailer fails to convey the slightest bit of interest in itself or the plot it presents. In fact, there seems to be so little going on they have to repeat the fact that this guy works in a mattress store and that he’s adopting a baby from China a few times. I’m not going to spend any more time going into detail about the potential of this movie and will instead just give you the bottom line.

Bottom Line: If you like Wes Anderson films without their niche creativity and enjoy falling asleep to noise and moving pictures while your date piles up the tissues, go ahead and rent this.

Finally, a movie trailer with the right balance of danger, science fiction and humanity. Moon stars my favorite Galaxy Quest star, Sam Rockwell, in the story of a energy harvester living and working on the moon for a three year stay.  Things appear to go wrong (as they often do in space according to Hollywood) when Rockwell’s character starts to fall into a depression as his foray on the moon comes to a close. With two weeks remaining he locates a wreck and discovers the body of what may be himself.

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