Hey, kids.  Do you like Wes Anderson and unnecessary voice over?  Then you’ll love the first seven minutes of Rian Johnson’s* The Brothers Bloom (starring Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, and Mark Ruffalo, none of whom appear in this clip).  It actually started to win me over towards the end. The guy can clearly tell a story, it’d just be nice if he eased off the oh-so-precious elements, like little kids who dress like Charlie Chaplin and talk like Our Gang.  Also: can we stop with the little-kids-falling-in-love plot device already?  If 10-year-old boys are gonna start trying to impress chicks all the time, I’m gonna knock them in the mud and put frogs down my pants just to even things out.

*Says Johnson’s wikipedia page: “Johnson is also an accomplished folk singer.” Gee, you don’t say.

[and sorry about the video, non-U.S. peeps, but there's not much I can do when the only place hosting it is Hulu. Write to them and complain, because it's frustrating for me too.]

^{If you see one movie with bowler hats this summer… make it Sherlock Holmes. But if you see two…}

…Yeah, so that’s just about the gayest headline pun I’ve ever written.  Anyway, after the jump I’ve got the trailer for The Brothers Bloom – starring Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel Weisz – director Rian Johnson’s follow up to Brick (which I never saw but am told is good).  It basically looks like Oceans 11 meets Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as directed by Wes Anderson.  Oh my gosh, aren’t these characters quirky?  I wonder if the mark will become the con at the end!

I like how complicated criminal enterprises are in movies.  In real life, 99% of all mob plots consist solely of beating someone up and telling him he owes you money.  So I’ve heard.
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