Sometimes you watch a movie trailer and you just can’t even. The latest reveal for the upcoming disaster flick, San Andreas, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, has my eyes rolling faster than Snoop Dogg on 4/20. Since the first trailer had just one line of dialogue given by Paul Giamatti, this new footage brings a little more context as to what we can expect from the film, which looks pretty much like your standard cataclysmic event movie.
Although this catastrophic incident is less threatening to life than the extinction of the Earth, such as The Day After Tomorrow or 2012, San Andreas does its best to enter the disaster film d*ck measuring contest to see who can create the most realistic CGI destruction effects. Can we be creative next time we try to blow up the Earth?
I found the first trailer for San Andreas to be amusing simply based on its use of the song “California Dreamin'” by The Mamas And The Papas. It’s used very well in a tongue in cheek way that prepares you for the ridiculousness that is to come; only this time by the hulking mass that is The Rock. We’ve seen a limo driver and various scientists try to save humanity from annihilation, so how about a buff rescue ranger?
Other than that, this trailer pretty much gives us nothing than the fact that The Rock is the father of Alexandra Daddario with her piercing blue-eyes among other assets. We can only assume that Carla Gugino is his ex-wife and mother to Daddario and Giamatti is there just to present the gravity of how big the fallout could be.
Are we done with disaster movies yet? What’s left to destroy?
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Here’s the plot synopsis for San Andreas courtesy of Warner Bros.:
After the infamous San Andreas Fault finally gives, triggering a magnitude 9 earthquake in California, a search and rescue helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way together from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their only daughter. But their treacherous journey north is only the beginning. And when they think the worst may be over…it’s just getting started.
Directed by Brad Peyton, San Andreas stars Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexadria Daddario, Ioan Gruffudd, Archia Panjabi, Paul Giamatti, and Kylie Minogue. This movie will hit theaters on May 29, 2015.
Source: Warner Bros.
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