The Karate Kid

Starring: Jackie Chan, Jaden Smith, Taraji P. Henson

Directed by: Harald Zwart

Plot: After his mom gets a job in China, Dre becomes the target of his new school’s bullies but gets help from Mr. Han, a secret master of kung fu.

Rotten Tomatoes Freshness: 67%

Critic Consensus: “It may not be as powerful as the 1984 edition, but the 2010 Karate Kid delivers a surprisingly satisfying update on the original.”

The A-Team

Starring: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson

Directed by: Joe Carnahan

Plot: Charged for a crime they didn’t commit, a special forces team escapes from a military stockade and goes on a mission to clear their names.

RT Freshness: 52%

Critic Consensus: “For better and for worse, Joe Carnahan’s big-screen version of The A-Team captures the superficial, noisy spirit of the TV series.”

So the day after we get the groin grabbingly awesome Expendables trailer we get a new longer trailer for it’s summer competitor, The A-Team.  Liam Neeson is Hannibal, Rampage Jackson is BA, Bradley Cooper is Face and Sharlto Copley is Murdock, pretty great casting but I gotta go with the internet consensus which is we are way less excited for this after seeing The Expendables trailer.  In the trio of  mercenary team movies coming out this year Expendables is definitely my number one must watch and I think I might want to see The Losers more than the A-Team just because I think it’s looking like it’s got a better sense of humor and it’s not going to be stupidly ridiculous i.e. no tanks blowing up planes in mid air. It looks like they’re going in a little bit of a parody route with The A-Team and it’s not working from what I’ve seen (Why would BA hum the A-Team theme?) I’m definitely still going to see the A-Team but I’m a little worried it might be a train wreck. Which mercenary team movie are you most looking forward to?  Check out the trailer and let us know in the comments.

The big screen debut of the A-Team is this summer and we have the first trailer for it.  Starring Liam Neeson as Hannibal, Bradley Cooper as Face, Rampage Jackson as B.A. and Sharlto Copley as Murdock, the trailer looks pretty good.  They’ve got the voice over intro, the van, everybody looks and sounds like their 80′s counterpart. I’m on the fence about the end where the team bails out of a plane in a tank on parachutes and then proceeds to blow up another plane with the tank’s machine gun.  It’s like something out of Crank but the show was always ridiculous so hopefully it will work in the actual movie.  Judge for yourself by watching the trailer below: