*ahem* MEGAN FOX NAKED MEGAN FOX NAKED MEGAN FOX NAKED! …Sorry, I have to do that for Google search purposes. I hope you understand. Anyway, after the jump I’ve got the trailer for Friends with Kids, the unofficial Bridesmaids reunion starring Kristin Wiig, Jon Hamm, Chris O’Dowd, and Maya Rudolph, with Adam Scott, Megan Fox, Ed Burns, and Jennifer Westfeldt (who also wrote and directs) along for the ride. The plot? “We’ve replaced their ‘Benefits’ with ‘Kids.’ Let’s see if anyone notices!”

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Okay, I know I’ve been chugging coffee and snorting lines of negativism all morning, so I’ll give you a well-earned rant respite with this new trailer for Bridesmaids, aka The Hangover for Chicks.  Ever since Drillbit Taylor, I’m a little wary of movies Judd Apatow produced but didn’t direct, but this one’s from Paul Feig, the creator of Freaks and Geeks.  Which, uh… other people seem to like a lot.  (I still respect it for all the actors it gave us…)

I also normally wouldn’t be excited about a film with such a, shall we say, transparently opportunistic premise (It’s The Hangover… FOR CHICKS!), but hey, whatever it takes to get Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig together in the same movie.  I could do without the fat chick from Mike and Molly though.  Nothing against fatties (heck, some of my best friends are fatties), but can we stop it with the easy fat jokes already?  Okay fine, so she also seems to be lesbian.  I’ll overlook it if there’s no scene of her dancing sassily, deal?

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I like most of Sam Mendes’ movies, though I avoided Revolutionary Road because it looks like a more boring version of American Beauty.  With fedoras.  But as luck would have it, he already has another project out. I hadn’t heard a thing about it until the trailer hit today. Away We Go stars John Krasinski (Jim from The Office) and Maya Rudolph (formerly of SNL) with a script by Dave Eggers and his wife, fellow writer Vendela Vida.  It sucks that hipsters like Dave Eggers, because now I have to defend it any time I say something good about him.  Hey, trust fund hippies, you know what’d be great?  You could hate everything I like!  Wouldn’t that be, like, so ironic?
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Maya Rudolph, John Krasinski (Jim from The Office), and Cheryl Hines (the wife on Curb Your Enthusiasm) have signed on for an upcoming comedy to be directed by Sam Mendes (who previously directed American Beauty).

The as-yet untitled comedy from Focus Features is the first original screenplay written by husband and wife team Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida.  Eggers, who recently adapted Where the Wild Things Are with Spike Jonze, is a well-known author, and editor of the quirky lit quarterly McSweeney’s.  Vida is a novelist and the editor of The Believer.

You can learn about all this and more in my upcoming dissertation, I’m Smart, and Know Stuff About Things. 

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