Luke Wilson is only 38, but his career's already gone through several phases. There was the indie phase where he played on-screen muse to Wes Anderson, the leading man phase where films like Old School tried to exploit his everyman appeal, the gotta-pay-the-rent phase where he ambled over a map of the Unites States recalling his sexual exploits for AT&T or something, and then the HBO phase, which is upcoming. So where does the new trailer for Middle Men fit into things?
It's kind of a mashup, really: indie enough (it'll be distributed by the rarely-in-use Paramount Vantage) with the kind of story that'd make for a good HBO movie, Middle Men stars Wilson as the man who figured out how to monetize pornographic transactions on the internet. As you can imagine, it made him quite wealthy -- no-AT&T-commercials-necessary wealthy -- but as often happens in these kinds of circumstances, trouble followed.
VERDICT: Looks OK, but I'd probably save my monetized transaction for an On Demand showing.