02.26.09 JAPANESE HANCOCK LOOKS WAY BETTER

Like Vincent Vega says in Pulp Fiction, you can travel around the world, but every country’s got pretty much the same shit.  The beauty’s in the little differences.  Take this trailer for Big Man Japan, for instance.  The idea’s pretty much the same as Hancock, but see if you can spot the tiny distinctions that make it oh so special.

A middle-aged slacker living in a rundown, graffiti-ridden slum, Daisato’s job involves being shocked by bolts of electricity that transform him into a stocky, stick-wielding giant several stories high who is entrusted with defending Japan from a host of bizarre monsters. But while his predecessors were national heroes, he is a pariah among the citizens he protects, who bitterly complain about the noise and destruction of property he causes. And Daisato has his own problems -an agent insistent on branding him with sponsor advertisements, an Alzheimer-afflicted grandfather who transforms into a giant in dirty underwear, and a family who is embarrassed by his often cowardly exploits. [Apple]

Did you catch the little difference?  It’s that they’re insane!  Wonderfully, funderfully mad!  After the jump, you really owe it to yourself to watch the trailer.  It looks like Yo Gabba Gabba if it were written more explicitly with the tripping-on-angel-dust crowd in mind.  Which is really all I’ve ever wanted.