Trailer Stash: New Moon, The Hangover, Toy Story 3, More

And now, a look at some notable trailers lighting up blogs and message boards:

The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Dakota Fanning
Director: Chris Weitz
Release Date: Nov. 20



This hastily-compiled teaser for the sequel to Twilight achieves its primary directive, which is to satiate adolescent girls and maybe a boy or two with the few finished shots that already exist from the movie. New director Chris Weitz seems to acquiesce to the moody blue palette of the first movie while embracing cleaner, more traditional special effects, no doubt a result of a swelled budget. That said, Stewart and Pattinson seem a tad sullen, even weary, and one wonders how long the franchise’s hype machine will be able to keep their brooding visages as the main selling point.

Toy Story 3
Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Don Rickles, Wallace Shawn, Estelle Harris, Michael Keaton
Director: Lee Unkrich
Release Date: June 18, 2010



A typical Pixar teaser, which is to say leisurely, cute and totally useless if we’re trying to figure out what actually happens in the movie. But for a franchise that has been dormant for more than a decade, this short clip blithely sums up the basic flow of the series and helps introduce it to a new generation of kids who will no doubt embrace it with the same fervor as before.

Enter the Void
Cast: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta
Director: Gaspar Noé
Release Date: No U.S. date yet



Gaspar Noé, he of Irréversible infamy, returned to the Cannes Film Festival with this minder-bender about a pair of siblings in Tokyo, a traumatic event that befalls them and the ecstatic journey that follows. The movie sparked sharply divided opinions—some within single reviews—and it seems destined to do the same when it opens stateside, probably later this year.

The Burning Plain
Cast: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, José María Yazpik
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
Release Date: Sept. 18



Now with an American release date, the debut feature from screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Babel, Amores perros, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada) concerns generational rifts over a family tragedy that inevitably cuts into ethnic tensions. The movie received mixed notices when it began playing film festivals last year, but this well-cut trailer makes it look like the kind of modest, agreeable drama that begins to roll into theaters as the fall sets in. We’ll see.

The Hangover (NSFW)
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha
Director: Todd Phillips
Release Date: Friday (June 5)



Yet another red-band trailer for the bawdy Vegas frat-pack comedy that’s being primed as the sleeper hit of the summer. It comes out Friday.