Zootopia 2 (2025), Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Walt Disney Animation Studios
The second fun trailer for Zootopia 2 has arrived, and it’s still looking great.
Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Shakira and Quinta Brunson star, while Jared Bush and Byron Howard direct another story of a complicated case that needs solving.
‘Someone get the hose?‘
Such a good second trailer. Great humour, and I absolutely agree with Nick Wilde about what Judy Hopps did with her ears. You do too, right?
Ke Huy Quan, Quinta Brunson, Ke Huy Quan, Shakira, Jason Bateman and Fortune Feimster also star.
Mortal Kombat II (2025), Jessica McNamee, Karl Urban, Warner Bros.
In adventure/fantasy Mortal Kombat 2, the Mortal Kombat fan-favourite champions, now joined by Johnny Cage (Karl Urban), are pitted against one another in the ultimate battle to defeat the dark rule of Shao Kahn. A rule that threatens the very existence of the Earthrealm and its defenders.
Directed by Simon McQuoid, additional key cast includes Mehcad Brooks, Karl Urban, Ludi Lin, Jessica McNamee and Joe Taslim.
This new trailer doesn’t look all bad. However, I find myself missing Sub-Zero a little bit. Especially because what we saw him do in the 2021 trailer and film was impressive and cool, no pun intended.
I’ll likely give this a chance because a key reason I enjoyed the first movie was the fight choreography. May it still be great for this second instalment, seemingly without sSub-Zero.
Are you also drawn to this one? Where does Mortal Kombat sit in your ranking of movies based on video games?
Ludi Lin, Jessica McNamee, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sanada, Adeline Rudolph, Tati Gabrielle, Josh Lawson, Martyn Ford, Tadanobu Asano, CJ Bloomfield and Steven Cragg also star.
I had high hopes for the latest Superman film. I was looking forward to the kind of hopefulness and warm feeling Christopher Reeve’s Superman films represented and inspired. A Superman whose admirable qualities and, specifically, words about what humanity meant to him read as true rather than contrived.
Director James Gunn’s version of the Superman story is not a terrible film, because I did enjoy the special effects and Lex Luthor’s wardrobe. However, I cringed more than I expected to at moments that were supposed to be moving. For example, that all-important speech when Superman speaks about ‘being human,’ I honestly don’t recall the last time I heard something that sounded that forced.
I did not buy the Lois Lane and Clark Kent romantic pairing. It felt off to me. The necessary chemistry seemed to be missing. And, as wonderful an actor as Rachel Brosnahan is, she’s unfortunately, simply not ‘my Lois.’
Superman (2025), Nicholas Hoult, DC
David Corenswet was okay as Superman. Nevertheless, I’m starting to believe that no Superman will ever come close to Christopher Reeve, the first one I ever watched. Similar to how Christian Bale is my Forever Batman.
As for Nicholas Hoult as Luthor, he didn’t do badly. Yet, it still wasn’t the stand-out performance I’d hoped for. I mean, I do have high expectations. Perhaps the script is to blame, or my high expectations.
James Gunn brought a kind of silliness to Superman that I don’t feel it needed, and that silliness includes Superman’s ‘teammates’, who, I may or may not have eventually warmed to, just a little by the end.’
Also, I could have sworn I saw the Game of Thrones Night King/Whitewalker character show up, which threw me.
The latest Disney Pixar film is Hoppers, an animation/adventure/comedy about an animal lover’s use of technology to uncover the secrets of the animal world.
Directed by Daniel Chong; Jon Hamm, Piper Curda and Bobby Moynihan star.
This is just my kind of cute. I already love the bear and hope we get plenty of time with her.
Even though it’s being released three months later, it’s not unlikely that I’ll watch this before the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash (2026) film. Especially because it’s guaranteed to have a much shorter running time.
Will you also be hopping along to the movie theatre or film room to see this one?
The third instalment of director James Cameron’s Avatar films, Avatar – Fire and Ash has arrived.
Starring Giovanni Ribisi, Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldaña, Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver, the conflict on Pandora escalates as a new aggressive Na’vi tribe encounters Jake and Neytiri’s family, resulting in a new moral focus.
The generally impressive visuals aside, I thought I’d be more enthused by the latest Avatar trailer. However, as this trailer played, the main thing that grabbed my attention was the words from 2:08 minutes at the end.
Since I still haven’t seen Avatar – The Way of Water, perhaps I’m missing things that those who have seen it find especially exciting about this first trailer release.
How do you feel about the above two minutes and 25 seconds?
David Thewlis, Jemaine Clement, Oona Chaplin, Sam Worthington, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, Stephen Lang, Jack Champion and Joel David Moore also star.
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