The Full Trailer for I Am Number Four: Yep, Still Looks Like Twilight
When we last saw some marketing for I Am Number Four -- the latest bit of teen pop from Dreamworks and director D.J. Caruso -- it looked an awful lot like Twilight. The brooding male lead who isn't what he seems...the porcelain-skinned ingenue who has his heart...the jumping and flying and assorted chasing. All that was missing was vampire fangs. Does the latest trailer rectify that omission?
Nope! It's still Twilight-rific, though, which maybe isn't such a bad thing. For starters, Alex Pettyfer -- he of Beastly fame -- has that "tortured bad boy" thing down cold, and there's just something about Glee's Dianna Agron that just screams, "Use your alien light hands to save me!" Plus, Timothy Olyphant plays the very un-Olyphantian like character of "dad." Bizarre! The best part? As witnessed by the not-too-terrible Disturbia and Eagle Eye, Caruso can do this mid-budget teen hokum better than most of his contemporaries.
VERDICT: Bring on the light hands!
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Critics must love films like this that make their review headlines practically write themselves. Get ready to read "I Am Number 2" hundreds of times.
So it's like if they did 'The Fugitive' today, and replaced the doctor thing with the alien thing, the Harrison Ford with a Brit male model, and threw in a forbidden love subplot. All of which leads me to ask - Where is the incredibly good looking one armed man?!
I was also appalled by Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood. I know she directed Twilight, but she also did Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. So I *was* indeed surprised (not in a good way) to see that her retelling of the classic story had turned into what seems to be a Twilight Parody, but actually isn't.
I thought the franchise would end next year, but by the look of things we're gonna get much more crap before this phase ends.
Man, you weren't kidding with the Twilightiness of it all. I was half-expecting a bunch of shirtless dudes to exit a house and not at all acknowledge the fact that a bunch of shirtless dudes just walked out of a house.