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Must See: The Wackness Movie Trailer
Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 15, 2008
As you may already know, if you read my review, I absolutely fell in love with director Jonathan Levine’s mid-90s comedy The Wackness. Since seeing it make its world premiere on the first Saturday of the Sundance Film Festival in January, I have done everything possible to see it over and over again. This includes catching it on the closing night in Park City, where it was honored with the 2008 Sundance Audience is award. And it is a good thing to see Sony Pictures Classics, the film’s distributor, slinging that around in the first trailer above, as that is a big deal. Of all the die hard movie fans, real critics and wannabes that hit the streets of Park City every year for America’s most popular film fest, the majority of them enjoyed The Wackness the most. The same can be said for the bulk of critics, at least in my circle, that are raving about the experience to this day.
Needless to say, when The Wackness hits limited theaters on July 3rd, it should be very high on your to-do list. As for the trailer, it can be seen in High Definition over at MTV.
Sound Off: What do you think of the first trailer for The Wackness?
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5 Comments
April 15th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
it’s kinda bad doesn’t give much insight into the movie and Famke Janssen isn’t even in the trailer
April 15th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Yeah, the trailer is incredibly weak and uninteresting… however, I’ll still be checking the movie out on the strength of your review alone. Better be good Miller!
April 15th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Agreed that the trailer could have been better. Its so hard to believe that that is the kid from nickelodeon! The movie sounds amazing, so i think i can look past the Olsen Twin. And i have to second rob-i’m going to see this movie because you said it was good Neil, don’t let me down!
April 16th, 2008 at 6:15 am
This trailer actually makes me think that the film will be really bad. I’m glad you like it so
much, but you can’t get excited about this trailer, if you’re being at all realistic. It tells us
almost nothing, looks pedestrian and has a very familiar feel (how many pot/coming of age
films have we seen?). And Sir Ben Kingsley toking up? Yeah, that will really pull in those
Gandhi/Sexy Beast demos while speaking to the kids.
For me, this has so far been a year of viewing fewer mediocre films, and The Wackness falls
straight into that category based on this trailer.
April 16th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Dear Sony Pictures Classics, make a better trailer, I honestly cannot wait to see this, what they need to do is add more music, maybe make it 2 minutes long, because if I was new to this film I would not know what exactly it was abut.