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!