- July 27th, 2021, 8:11 am#4952475Here are my thoughts overall:
I feel mostly the same about this new trailer as I did about the last one. I think if you're going to make a movie that has all of this corporate franchise machinery behind it, then having some sort of thematic thrust behind it is a good idea, and I think "exploring parental legacy" makes enough sense given who made it. I'm excited by the new setting and the new characters, and I think the cast looks like fun.
On the other hand, not to be the first naysayer, but from a marketing standpoint, they made another trailer that non-fans are going to complain doesn't really have any jokes in it (although I laughed at Mckenna Grace's delivery of "Maybe it's the apocalypse"), and it still makes me antsy that they're bringing back the same apocalyptic stuff from the first movie in the form of the Shandor mines, the terror dogs, and Gozer. I'll grant them leeway on the mini-Pufts, because there's no escaping one or two major callbacks, but it feels like they could've forged more of their own path on everything else, like an expansion and alteration of the existing mythos -- and this is definitely a complaint I'd level at the 2016 movie too (although that one does it more with references than mythos).
Also, another trailer without the theme. Personally, I'm indifferent to this as a complaint, but I expect it to come up. People were uploading edits of the last one to get the theme in there.