Alice In Wonderland (2010) Teaser

We’ve just seen the first trailer for Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, and let us assure you – This is the most exciting teaser ever!

Beginning with a grown-up Alice (Mia Wasikowska) wandering through a field… we get a high speed fall down a rabbit hole cluttered with all kinds of junk, followed by the drinking of the shrinking potion… and it only gathers pace from here.

To the tunes of a most Elfmanic score, a playful yet dramatic dance of a melody, we are presented with a lush buffet of visuals, every bit the equal of of our expectations and even surpassing them in many cases.

Our first glimpse of some of the major characters, such as the wide-grinned CG Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry) delight alongside the characters we’ve already seen in poster art – the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas), and of course, the ever lovable, mad mad Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), who narrates the trailer.

We know that this story is set a decade after Alice’s first visit to wonderland, and we know that it is a far more dangerous place to be, not quite the innocent playground of yore, but plot is only hinted at here, and that isn’t a bad thing, as the first glimpses of Burton’s realisation will have people begging for more.

I think if this trailer were any longer, we might faint in excitement. As it this is one of the most thrilling, captivating and inspiring 90 seconds you’re likely to see all week. Roll on March next year!

Verdict: Life Sentence! We almost wish we hadn’t watched it, now we’re just too darned excited!

Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland is released March 5th 2010. Click here to view the trailer.

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Daybreakers (2010)

Did anyone order a kick-ass vampire flick with a side-order of awesome and smothering of oil-crisis subtext? Your meal has arrived… and boy does it look tasty!

Set in a future world populated by vampires, where the human race is virtually extinct and farmed for blood, Ethan Hawke plays a vamp Haemotologist who is trying to find a blood substitute before the swiftly dwindling supplies of human blood run dry.

With only a month of blood left, Hawke’s Dalton is introduced to a band of vampires who have been able to cure themselves and who wish to rebuild the human race. Opting to take the cure, Dalton faces a race against time to convince the rest of the world that the cure is the only way forward.

Visually, the trailer is stunning. The vampire world fully realised in startling detail, the photography is quite poetic. With digital and creature effects from WETA, this modestly-budgeted film looks a hundred million dollars.

Playing to a sublime cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” by Placebo, the spiraling scale of themes present in the story begin to mount up and we realise this is the vampire movie as it was meant to be, as allegory, parralleling our insatiable consumption of fossil fuels even in the face of extinction.

Apparently the film has undergone re-shoots, adding action, and the trailer highlights this. With the new human resistance fighting the old vampire order, there are explosions aplenty, and as Willem Dafoe’s character Elvis so brilliantly points out, crossbows.

Written and Directed by brothers Michael and Peter Speirig, and shot in Australia, this reminds us of another film written and directed by a brother duo, in Australia, with a heavily allegorical storyline and groundbreaking visuals…

… and after the brilliance of this trailer, comparisons to The Matrix seem only natural.

Verdict: Life Sentence. One of the most conceptually exciting, jaw-droppingly realised trailers we’ve seen in a while, we literally can not wait for this one.

Daybreakers is released January 2010. Click here to view the trailer.

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Jennifer’s Body (2009) Red Band Trailer

The redband trailer for Jennifer’s Body gives us a lot of barely dressed Megan Fox to gawk at… are we complaining? Er, no. We’re celebrating!

Working on the Michael Bay theorem of “Camera + Fox – Clothing = Ticket Sales”, the trailer draws us in with plenty of Fox-flesh, and a smattering of equally tasty gore.

Jennifer’s Body is the latest film from the mind of Diablo Cody, Oscar winning writer of Juno, and her signature is all over the witty quips exchanged between the characters.

We’re in no doubt that this is gonna have more quotable dialogue than a season of Family Guy – we just hope it doesn’t get too much… like the last 30 mins of Juno.

The story follows Mamma Mia’s Amanda Seyfried, homely best friend to head cheerleader and all around sex-bomb Megan Fox, who finds out her popular friend is being troubled by a small case of demon possesion, causing her to devour all the boys at school.

Seyfried’s Needy (yes, that’s the character’s name), must stop her best friend at all costs, and that means we’re in for a serious subversion of the high-school movie, as well as some potentially satisying horror moments.

With the look, the tone, the music, the dialogue, we can’t help but be reminded of Heathers, and lord it’s been a long time waiting for an heir to that throne.

Hopefully, Jennifer’s Body will continue to build on the strength of this trailer (and to remove more of Megan Fox’s restrictive clothing), and will ultimately deliver the kind of movie that the high school experience really deserves.

Verdict: Lock Us Up! There is something about Megan Fox saying “buff your situation” that makes us all funny inside.

Jennifer’s Body is released October 28th. Click here to view the redband trailer.

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