Trailer Park: Giants, Informers and Superheroes

Gigantic
This romantic comedy starring Paul Dano and Zooey Deschanel looks downright charming. Dano plays a mattress salesman who hopes to adopt a baby from China and Deschanel is the girl he falls for after she dozes off in his store. Ed Asner plays his Dad and John Goodman plays hers. Look for this one on April 3.

The Informers
American Psycho novelist Bret Easton Ellis wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his novel that, like American Psycho, looks back at the uber decadence of the 1980s. A great cast (including Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, and Winona Ryder) plays a group of characters at both the very top and the rock bottom of the social ladder. This one goes into limited release on April 24.

Big Man Japan
Let me go on the record as saying "Wow." Let the record also show that "Wow" is conveyed with a sort of stunned reverence. This is the tale of a Japanese man who is the last in line of men who can transform into giants to defend their homeland from equally large monsters. The CGI is pretty unconvincing, but the weird factor is off the scale. The movie gets a limited release on May 15.




Explicit Ills
Four interconnecting stories dealing with poverty in Philadelphia. This is the feature film directorial debut of actor Mark Webber and it starts a limited release on March 6.

Adventureland
I still think this new flick from the director of Superbad has potential, but this new red band trailer isn't helping the film's cause. Tons of profanity here that may be hilarious in the context of the film, but isolated like this you get the feeling the movie is just giggling at the naughty words like a middle school kid.

Super Capers
This superhero comedy attempts to score points by casting TV's Batman Adam West and Justin Walin who was one of the two actors to play Jimmy Olsen on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, but has the comic book geek in me dying to expose the entire cast to Kryptonite. A superhero (Walin) without any powers is sentenced by the court to serve as a member of a hero group called Super Capers. The rest is pretty painful, but you can see it on March 20 if you are so inclined.

New this week on AOL Moviefone:

• Sin Nombre - A Honduran teenager reunites with her long-estranged father, and attempts to emigrate to America.
• Inglourious Basterds - The hotly anticipated World War II action flick from Quentin Tarantino. Here's the trailer:
  
• Funny People - Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen join forces for this new film from Judd Apatow.
• Land of the Lost - Will Ferrell stars in this modern take on the classic Saturday morning action fantasy show.
• Paris 36 - In 1936 Paris a group of people try to reopen a once great theater.
• Walled In - An engineer for a demolition company discovers the dark secrets of a building scheduled to be torn down. Check out the preview:
  
  
  
• American Violet - An African-American single mother is wrongly accused selling drugs.
• Transformers 2 - Sequel to the 2007 blockbuster about shape shifting alien robots.
• Sherman's Way - A tightly wound college student wants to prove he can be spontaneous so he hitchikes to Los Angeles, taking a ride from a middle-aged bohemian ski champ.
• Goodbye Solo - A Senegalese taxi driver in North Carolina strikes up an unlikely friendship with a depressive passenger.
• Angels and Demons - Second trailer for the DaVinci Code prequel.