Trailerama

Today's cinema report:

If I'm going to review the Trailers, I might as well do a selection of the adverts too...

Virgin Trains: "New Trains - A New Beginning"

A very well done advert, tells a story (steward is looking for a doctor - why? Because some poor woman has gone into labour - hence a new beginning) whilst unobtrusively showing off the nifty features of the new trains. Simple, yet very well executed.

DFS: "I'll Sleep on the Sofa"

Worth a mention if only because for once DFS are trying to plug the quality of their product rather than its low price (or the perpetually "must end soon" 3-years-interest-free-credit-and-pay-nothing-for-a-year offer)

Vauxhall Corsa: "Hide & Seek"

Basically, it's a bunch of cars playing hide and seek, gets plenty of laughs for the daft hiding places.

Orange: "I Wish..."

Extended version of the TV ad, including the inexplicably cut "I wish Bob Marley was still with us" - here's to that. Plus I can no longer annoy people by knowing all the words to their "I Know Everything" ad and doing silly voices...

A cracking bunch of trailers:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

This must be about the 3rd or 4th different trailer for the film I've seen, and it keeps looking better. The new actors (Lockheart and Malfoy) look good, and there are definite signs that it won't be sticking quite so rigidly to the book as the first film - a definite plus (cf.

Die Another Day (aka Bond 20)

Well, it's definitely a Bond film ;-) Looks like this one could be a real corker - the usual mix of action adventure and Bond Girls.

The Lord of the Rings - Two Towers (2002)

Wow. Looks to be every bit as good as the first part, and will doubtless continue putting the rest of Hollywood's output to shame.

Finally, the main feature - xXx. I went to see this purely on the basis of the trailer, and got pretty much what I expected - a bit of Bond-stylee fun, but with an extreme sports freak in the place of the suave secret agent. Cue Evil Overlords, Underground Lairs, plenty of laughs and some of the most gloriously daft stunts ever seen on film. All in all, a top slice of switch-off-brain-and-enjoy fun.