Film Preview: Monster Trucks (2017)

Page Revisions:

(September 3, 2016) Original
(November 20, 2016) New Trailer (#2) / New Poster (#1)
(January 8, 2017) New Posters (#2-#4)

Release Date:

January 13, 2017

Synopsis:

From IMDb: “Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, Tripp (Lucas Till), a high school senior, builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars. After an accident at a nearby oil-drilling site displaces a strange and subterranean creature with a taste and a talent for speed, Tripp may have just found the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.”

Poster Rating: D / C+ / C / B-

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Review: (#1) This poster design not only look horrendously fake, it won’t do much to make the film appealing to anyone.

(#2) It’s got everything you could want for a movie like this, which isn’t much, but at least it’s eye-catching. (#3) The white background is distracting, the image is poorly constructed, but it at least tells you how idiotic the movie looks. That has to account for something? (#4) For as cheesy as the film looks, this poster more than adequately conveys that. Tons of elements that make it look like a cheap ’70s B movie works if that’s what you’re looking for.

Trailer Rating: C / D+

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Review: (#1) If there’s appeal beyond teens, I’d be surprised. The trailer goes to great lengths to give the audience precisely what a young audience would love without the substance that could bridge it to adults.

(#2) If you thought you had gone through Lewis Carroll’s looking glass, you might be onto something. While the trailer has no apt comparison to Carroll’s children’s books, the utterly bizarre, pointless, and unrealistic nature of the premise should give you pause. Targeted at young viewers, I’m not even sure they would be interested in seeing something like this.