It’s been a week, friends, but Alasdair Stuart has had a chance to sit down with the Superbowl trailers and had some thoughts. Here they are. (Editor’s note: this article failed to upload for some reason originally!)

The Mandalorian & Grogu

I’m going to be completely honest; this really annoyed me. Firstly, the spot it’s parodying only ever played in the US which is not the all-inclusive message any brand wants to be sending in 2026, especially one that bends the knee as readily as Disney. Secondly, this is the first full-length Star Wars movie since 2019. It’s a functional soft reboot for the series and not actually telling people what it’s about utterly mystifying. Thirdly, this and what seemed to be the damage control interview that followed its release, both play as enormously smug. If you have to give an interview explaining your trailer, your trailer didn’t do it’s job. The movie’s out May 22nd.

Scream 7

Kevin Williamson, original writer and director is back. Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, the world’s least lucky and recently most underpaid horror final girl and Courtney Cox is back as semi indestructible journalist Gale Weathers. A bunch of other original cast members are rumoured to be back. Melissa Barera and Jenna Ortega are not. The former was fired for daring to demand a ceasefire in Palestine. The latter is reported to have been ‘busy’ with Wednesday. Scream 6 is a surprisingly brilliant finish to the franchise if you’re that way inclined. Scream 7 is out on 27th February.

Minions & Monsters

The Minions go to Hollywood in the 1920s and decide to make a monster movie. With real monsters! This honestly looks really fun, and I’m always here for some Lovecraftian nose tweaking. I’m curious as to whether the cute little guy is Cthulhu, and doubly curious who’s voicing them as everything I’ve seen is oddly coy on the subject. Nonetheless, Pierre Coffin is always a blast in these (‘KING BOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!’ gets screamed in this house once a week or so) and this looks adorable and slightly maniacal. Come for the fun, stay for the energy kaiju bunny. It’s released on July 6th.

Project Hail Mary

I’m going to cry for the entire back third of this I can tell. I cannot wait. Full breakdown on the way.

Disclosure Day

Spielberg returns to one of his favourite subjects, UFOs, with a story about what happens when incontrovertible proof of alien life on Earth is released worldwide. I cannot WAIT for this and this trailer looks amazing. Some quick notes:

The crop circle writing itself into existence at 0.17

‘Are they people?’ ‘…NO.’-That’s why you hire Josh O’Connor! The weight he puts behind that one word!

The imagery of the animals leading the kid out to what seems to be a disguised UFO is something Spielberg’s played with before, most notably in overlooked miniseries, Taken.

That train vs car stunt looks GNARLY

At 0.44, is that something invisible running wild on the city streets or something that’s not been dropped into the scene yet?

Josh O’Connor and Emily Blunt’s characters are in different plots but seem to meet (And wear weird electrodes!) at 0.47

‘There will be no other day, like tomorrow.’ is such a weird shaped, beautiful line and Colman Domingo nails it.

Alien mothership at 0.52!

The movie releases June 12th. I’m PSYCHED.

Hoppers

The new Pixar movie follows a piece of technology that enables humans to swap brains with animals. After Elio was flattened out due to demands from the conservative elements of Disney, Pixar have taken a pretty serious reputational hit. This, which looks light, fluffy, funny and is cautiously telling us only half the story (the animal brains end up in humans, right? Surely?). It looks promising, and light, and fun so no doubt the emotions are hiding under the water as they always are with Pixar. We’ll  find out on 6th March.

Super Mario Galaxy Movie

The original was surprisingly, especially given my growing dislike for Worst Chris, very fun. This one I’m less sold on. In trailer terms it’s yet another spot which is almost entirely vibes based rather than bothering to tell us anything. The movie’s out very soon (1st April), and folds in a bunch of stuff from games I haven’t played, but that looks gorgeous. Pratt’s back, Charlie Day’s back as Luigi, a role he was born to play, as is Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Keegan-Michael Key as Toad and best of all Jack Black’s back as Bowser. We get Brie Larson this time too! As Princess Rosalina, which puts the amount of badass space princesses she’s played at two so far. Actor/director Benny Safdie debuts as Bowser Jr. I don’t enjoy either Safdie brothers work and he was far from great in Happy Gilmore 2 but with the original cast back, the bigger scope and the typically gorgeous animation, this does look fun. We’ll find out 1st April.

Supergirl

Short, adorable and to the point. I love the reveal on Krypto as a puppy and, as I’ll say every time I write about this movie, HE’S GOING TO BE FINE. Krypto does not have a good time in the graphic novel this is based on but he’s fine. Promise. Also, that lines about Superman seeing the best in people and Kara seeing the truth is lovely. It’s both true and yells you, and her, what her damage is. Also this thing looks gorgeous. That shot of Kara breaking atmosphere especially.

AND THE DOG’S GOING TO BE FINE.

Supergirl releases 26th June

 

 

 

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