Yahoo just released the teaser trailer for the animated family film Megamind, starring the voice of Will Ferrell, which you can watch under the cut.  You can tell it’s a Dreamworks movie because the main character makes the Dreamworks face like five times.  And much like their Dragon movie that used the music from True Romance, they’ve gone with another possibly inappropriate soundtrack for a kids’ movie, this time AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.”  They never actually let it get to the chorus, but still, I think the danger would be moms hearing it, forgetting themselves, and flashing their tits at the screen, or dads lighting their seats on fire and screaming about sex, drugs, and groupie pussy.   Which is what my parents always did when AC/DC came on.

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(What can I say, the bitches go crazy for a dude who can blog)

In a clever bit of multi-platform, synergistic marketing web 2.0, Marvel is basically putting their name on an AC/DC greatest hits album and calling it “AC/DC: Iron Man 2.”  Set to release nine days before the movie in April, it features “15 classic AC/DC songs selected from ten of the band’s studio albums, ranging from 1976 to 2008.”

To promote the announcement, they released this music video featuring some footage from Iron Man 2 — mostly from a Stark Expo scene featuring pyrotechnics and dancing girls in Iron Man costumes — cut with AC/DC doing “Shoot to Thrill.”    I’ll be honest, I was all set to call AC/DC whores and make fun of Marvel for passing over Black Sabbath (whose most famous song is called Iron Man forcrissakes), but once those opening chords kicked in, before I knew it I’d lit my trashcan on fire and was flashing my tits at my laptop screen.  FIIIIIYAAAAAAHHHH!!!

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Watch the trailer for Anvil! the Story of Anvil above and then read that headline, and if your heart didn’t warm just a little bit, stop judging me I’m really emotional this week.

The hard-rocking Canadian group will open for the heavy metal band AC/DC when it performs at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Mass. on July 28 and at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., on July 31, the bands’ publicists said in a release.  Anvil, founded in Toronto in the 1970s, enjoyed a short-lived American success in the 1980s with albums like “Hard ‘N Heavy” and “Strength of Steel.” The group recently reentered the cultural consciousness with the “Anvil!” documentary, though the movie has also prompted the occasional (mistaken) conclusion that it is an elaborate, Spinal Tap-style hoax. (For example, the movie “This Is Spinal Tap” was directed by Rob Reiner, and the Anvil drummer and co-founder is named Robb Reiner.) [NYTimes]

Going from playing to a couple people to opening for AC/DC at Giants Stadium is a comeback about as amazing as they come (and I know a little something about amazing come).  It just goes to show, a documentary can be a powerful thing.  I wonder if the guy from Grizzly Man would be enjoying this kind of fame if he hadn’t gotten torn apart and eaten by bears.  It almost makes you wish he’d lived.  Almost.