In case you didn't get enough jokes about Jack Black's gut last week in the Gulliver's Travels trailer, The Kung Fu Panda 2 teaser has one more! Score! Besides that it gives a glimpse of...not very much at all. In fact the rest of the teaser will remind you how long thirty seconds can really feel.
In a slightly bold move, the trailer draws out a "Kung Fu staring contest" with the audience a good ten seconds past the end of the joke. It felt long enough that I wondered if whoever cut this trailer had just watched Jean Luc-Godard's Band of Outsiders (see clip below). Maybe this gag is a subtle attempt to weigh in on the whole Godard Oscar controversy? Or perhaps it signals an even more sophisticated and avant garde sequel to the clever original? Or I suppose, maybe it's just a total coincidence...Yeah okay, it's probably that. Anyway, the trailer is below -- have at it.
Verdict: I lost that staring contest.