Welcome to a brand new weekly feature here on WorcesterMovies.com, “Trailer Stash.” As a remedy to Monday morning, we will offer up a quintet of trailers for your information, entertainment and misappropriation of company time while at work. We will do our best to theme them appropriately, though if we’re really tired from watching movies all weekend, they might be just five trailers that we want to share.Make sure you have QuickTime installed, as most of the trailers we share with you will be in that format (yes, we are Mac loyalists).
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THE GAME PLAN (Sept. 28, Sneaks Sept. 22) - If for no other reason than to see their friends and family as extras in the airport scene, Worcester folks will go see this sports comedy about a football star, played by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who gets a dose of reality when his illegitimate daughter shows up on his doorstep. What illegitimate children are doing in a Disney movie, we may never know.
ENCHANTED (Nov. 21) - Disney sends itself up in this story of an animated storybook Princess (played by the adorable Amy Adams) who steps into the very real world of New York City, pursued by her Prince (James Marsden) and the Evil Queen (Susan Sarandon). While they have done this sort of fish-out-of-water tale before, with their 2001 Visitors remake Just Visiting, this one has a distinct American flavor (and “Grey’s Anatomy” star Patrick “Dr. Dreamy” Dempsey).
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS (Dec. 14) - Jason Lee may have started his career with naughty boys Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater, but recently, his career trend has been toward the squeaky-clean. He loaned his voice to The Incredibles and Underdog, and now, his mug to this live-action/CGI take on David Seville’s three mischievous musical rodents. There isn’t much to the trailer, but if the poop gag is any indication as to what to expect from the movie, it’s tag line (and subsequent reviews) might as well be, “Poop, there it is!”
THE PIRATES WHO DON’T DO ANYTHING (January 11, 2008) - The animation might be basic and bordering on crude, but the writing on “VeggieTales,” the TV series on which this movie is based, is extremely strong. This follow-up to 2002’s very Biblical Jonah plays on the seafaring appeal of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean, minus the grotesque monsters, violence and perpetual innuendo.
HORTON HEARS A WHO (March 14, 2008) - The movie adaptations of the late Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas and The Cat in the Hat may have stunk worse than a Lorax with a moss infection, but this CGI affair, featuring the voices of Jim Carrey as the way-sensitive elephant Horton and Steve Carell as the Mayor of the very, very small town of Whoville looks like it might get the esteemed Doctor right.