By: Greg Payne
Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen have proven to be a terrific writing team, with outstanding comedies like Superbad and Pineapple Express under their belts. I was exposed to their next comedy adventure, The Watch, during the previews prior to Prometheus last night, and as great as the green band theatrical trailer is, the red band is 1,000 times raunchier and 1,000 times funnier.
Starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, and Billy Crudup, The Watch is about four guys who form a neighborhood watch and suspect an alien invasion is occurring around them.
The green band trailer has a ton of great lines that aren't seen in the red band trailer, but take a look at the NSFW one right now:
While the usual dick and sex-related jokes are clearly the basis of the comedy in this one, the lines sound fresh and we seem to be in store for some great delivery from Hill and Vaughn. Vaughn's rant about the green ooze resembling cum is so funny.
The choice of words for certain lines is great, like when they're all in Costco, looking around at people who they suspect to be aliens. Jonah Hill could have said, "Look at this little kid," but instead we get, "Look at this little piece of shit right here," and it's so much funnier. Often, great lines like those that are blended into the dialogue are funnier than snappy or cheeky one-liners. Goldberg and Rogen have always been great about delivering consistently funny dialogue on an almost line-by-line basis.
I think my favorite line from the trailer comes towards the end when they blow up the cow with the laser ball. I love how they're celebrating and Vince Vaughn quietly sneaks in, "That's terrible for the cow, but this thing's fucking awesome!" Again, those subtle lines, often coming at the beginning of sentences, that blend in with a more common punchline, are what really make movies like these so funny.
The Watch lands in theaters on July 27.
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