Also: it’s a freaking trailer for a trailer for a movie. I was going to not put it up, for exactly that reason. But it’s so bloody awful in its malignant promise of utter We Have No Idea Why The First Film Was Fun that I feel compelled to show it anyway. I guess that this means that they won, after all?
Also: based on pictures here I expect that the LEGO video game will be dropping pretty dang quickly after the film comes out. Oh, wait, right. Not every person out there has kids addicted to the LEGO video games. Never mind…
Look, the first sequel failed to get what was so great about the original. Why should this one be any different?
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The first Ghostbusters should be taught in film schools as a perfect comedy. The second should be a cautionary tale (as should “Ocean’s 12”).
And the third may end up being a tale in what happens when you cast your movie according to SWJ principles.
Hey, my wife and I play all the Lego games. Little kids can’t have all the fun…
The commenters on YT are ripping that to shreds.
By the way, if this movie tanks, it will have done one service to society: pointing out that remaking a movie and replacing male characters with female ones for no reason other than to do so is dumb, and hopefully Doctor Who fans and writers/other staff realize that.
But that’s when you do it solely for the sake of doing it, and the perfect counter is Missy, who could at times be the reincarnation of one of the original series’ Masters.
…and also, Thor. At least THAT replacement is not “just ‘cuz.”