Hot Trailer: ‘Our Idiot Brother’

COMMENTS (18)

• Hilarious! I’m there.

  Comment by Rudd fan — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 10:06am EDT  Reply to this post

• Horrible !

  Comment by Seen it — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 10:15am EDT  Reply to this post

• I’d be there… if Paul Rudd weren’t in it. That man’s the definition of unfunny.

  Comment by Tommy T. — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 10:40am EDT  Reply to this post

  • Really? You’re the first person I’ve ever heard complain that Paul Rudd isn’t funny. Everyone I know, myself included, thinks he’s hilarious. Strange.

    Comment by Pete — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 11:47am EDT  Reply to this post

    • Very strange.

      Comment by Mark — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 3:32pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Seems the WC took this vid trailer down because of copyright issues!! ON A TRAILER??? Can we re-name this “Our Idiot Producers”?

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 11:20am EDT  Reply to this post

• “This video no longer there due to a copyright claim by TWC.”

  Seriously? Didn’t Nikki just run a story the other day about the Weinsteins being buried up to their ass in unnecessary legal matters? Case in point.

  Chill out with the billable hours, ass clowns. People just want to watch a trailer that gives publicity to YOUR OWN MOVIE!

  Comment by gothar — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 11:24am EDT  Reply to this post

• I like a lot of the people in this project, behind the scenes and in front of the camera. But this is fake indie — this sensibility that is just too hipster, and low on laughs. This trailer in incredibly dreary and unfunny.

  The director and his wife, he founded a big band (The Lemonheads), and his father was big at The New Republic. But they’re not filmmakers, they’re not real writers. This isn’t comedy, this is hipster posturing with tee hee jokes that are not funny. This movie is going to die at the box office, because there’s no real heart in this film.

  Comment by pass — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 12:03pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Classic Greenberg/Norman/Weinstein comedy, but Im confused…which Weinstein brother is this about?

  Comment by indiemarketer — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 12:09pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Hooray for my first Monday chuckle!

    Comment by gobacktosleep — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:26pm EDT  Reply to this post

• and they’re so confident they slated it for the last weekend in august!

  Comment by mde — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 12:09pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Another manchild movie. Yippie! Nothing like a loser “weird alone guy” to charm an audience. And I’m sure he gets the girl in the end ’cause as we know from watching Judd Apatow movies hot girls loooove them some loser dudes.

  Paul Rudd’s fine by me even in that stupid wig and fake beard, it’s just how many of these movies can we see? I guess the well is bottomless.

  Comment by hee hee, that's hilarious! — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 12:12pm EDT  Reply to this post

• This has got to be the most negative comments board on the entire internet. You people have lost touch with the common movie goer.

  Check out the comments sections of sites like Joblo.com and you see nothing but effusive praise for this trailer and the much-maligned-on-Deadline trailer for 30 Minutes or Less. These are real people, not industry cynics, these are the people you have to reach.

  These two trailers were good trailers. They’re funny. What’s wrong with you, guys? Now I haven’t the energy to check if these two films are from the same studio. If they are, I MUST be a plant, right?

  Comment by Ren — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 12:21pm EDT  Reply to this post

• ^Thank you!

  If it’s so funny, why is out in the last weekend of August???

  Comment by thebigham — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 12:59pm EDT  Reply to this post

• So the Weinstein Company can’t figure out how to launch their own trailer on their own youtube channel for easy embedding and feel the need to isssue removal notices to other sites that do. A trailer is an advertisement. Why are they giving take down notices to people. It’s really retarded. What’s wrong with the world of copyright that advertisers don’t want people to watch their advertisements.

  Comment by comersuerte — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 1:09pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Hilarious. And spot on.

  Comment by Sid — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 2:41pm EDT  Reply to this post

• “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by The Weinstein Company.”

  Funniest trailer tagline I’ve come across this week!
  I’m taking this trailer notice at face value: THIS is what “Our Idiot Brother” is about!

  Plot: Videos all around the country mysteriously begin disappearing due to “copyright claims”. An evil, shadowy group called “The Weinstein Company” issues a proclamation: “All your videos belong to us”.

  Paul Rudd’s “idiot brother” character decides, as a self-proclaimed video freedom fighter, to fight the sinister TWC by IGNORING their copyright claim on HIS video.

  Best scene: The Ivy, lunchtime, patio…
  Heated & hilarious confrontation between the idiot brother and Harvey W plus not one-but THREE- lawyers about 1) the seasoning on their Cobb salad, 2) actors and their greedy back end demands, 3) The MPAA and their fucking nonsense about “fuck”, 4) Harvey’s stylist, 5) oh, and why the idiot brother HIMSELF will soon “no longer be available due to a copyright claim by The Weinstein Company”.

  Alternate title: “Copyright This!”

  Comment by Trailer Trash — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 6:27pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Wow, I don’t mean to be negative but that seriously sucked. I usually like Rudd but this is awful. How does this crap get made? Which leads me to my next question: When was the last time a “comedy” was fu%#ing funny at the b.o.?! Arthur, Hall Pass,Your Highness…WTF?

  Comment by Stimpy — Monday April 25, 2011 @ 10:28pm EDT  Reply to this post