
There are plenty of fresh stills swilling around the movie mud-pit this morning, so we have helpfully compiled a few of them in one place for your ogling pleasure. There are pics from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, medieval stoner comedy Your Highness, Alice in Wonderland, Kevin Smith's Cop Out, and SNL spin-off MacGruber. Plus a clip from Legion, and trailer for She's Out of My League.
Universal have released two images from Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, the forthcoming action-comedy comic book adaptation from Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright. One of the pictures might look a little familiar, with the group shot of Scott (Michael Cera) and pals having already surfaced in murkier, muddier form some time around the middle of last month. If you require a name check on all the characters and actors in the line-up then click here.

Quite frankly, the sheer tizz that folks are already getting in over this film is so ridiculous that had the second shot been one of Cera in his Reg Grundy's, trail of vomit smeared down his back, bits of semi-digested crisp visible in the sick-slick, then the internet still would have been reverberating with a million and one expletive-laden exclamations of excitement. That is of course not the scene depicted; instead we get our first glimpse of Cera in action, and our first clues of the live-action interpretation that Wright is going to give to Bryan Lee O' Malley's manga-influenced, breathlessly kinetic fight scenes.

Another 2010 Universal release is Your Highness, a knights and maidens comedy from Pineapple Express director David Gordon Green (whose earlier films George Washington and Undertow are both viewable in full on Indie Movies Online). Starring James Franco, Danny McBride, Zooey Deschanel and Natalie Portman, the film centres on McBride's slack-assed prince who exists in the shadow of Franco's gleaming older brother. But when Franco's betrothed (Deschanel) is abducted by Justin Theroux's naughty wizard, it is clear the time has come for McBride to straighten out and saddle up on a quest to rescue the fashionably distressed damsel. Your Highness is currently scheduled for release on 1 October in the US.

With the recent release of a nifty new trailer, anticipation has been growing for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and Disney have delivered a new shot of Johnny Depp in his role as the Mad Hatter. Now, all Indie Movies will say about this incarnation of the Hatter is that we are flipping glad we are no longer a child. Yes, admittedly were we still a little 'un then the skeletal touch of the Grim Reaper upon our shoulder would be further away; but that crazy clown look that Depp has got going on would have frightened several bejesuses out of us. The 3D-shot Alice is out on 5 March.

Ever wondered what Tracy Morgan would look like dressed up as a mobile phone? And what if Bruce Willis was sat next to him? Imagine, Morgan dressed up as a mobile. Those big ol' buttons. His head jutting out of the centre of the screen. And then Willis next to him, deadpanning with the blank expression of a middle-aged man who has had a little work don... er, is a brilliant actor, with magnificent control over single one of his facial muscles. Ever wondered what that might look like? Have you? I'm not seeing any raised hands, so let's just drop the picture from Kevin Smith's Cop Out in below, and quietly move on.

In a classic case of out of the frying pan and into fire, our vault over Cop Out finds us landing in the lap of MacGruber, based on a Saturday Night Live sketch and starring dude-from-said-show Will Forte in the title role. As you might guess from the title, MacGruber is a MacGyver spoof, the eponymous figure being an ultra-resourceful solider of fortune. The movie version finds him facing off against arch-foe Dieter Von Cunth (Val Kilmer), with the Ryan Phillipe, Powers Boothe and the increasingly-ubiquitous Kristen Wiig all co-starring. Out in the US on 23 April, start forming a line at the multiplex... now!



But not before you watch this clip from Legion, viewable at Yahoo Movies. The directorial debut of special effects man Scott Stewart (who also co-wrote the script), Legion finds Paul Bettany's archangel Michael protecting the customers of a New Mexico diner (Dennis Quaid amongst them) from the wrath of the Almighty – which comes in the shape of a sky-darkening plague of angry angels. The clip sees Bettany facing off against rival halo-wearer Gabriel, who is played by Kevin Durand (he was Blob in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but best not to speak of that). Legion is released on 22 January in America, while UK cinema-goers have to wait till 5 March before they have the chance to check it out for themselves.

Last up, and also on Yahoo, is the trailer for She's Out of My League, starring Jay Baruchel (who also toplines I'm Reed Fish, which is available on Indie). She's Out of My League casts Baruchel as Kirk, who – in the words of Paramount's official synopsis - 'can’t believe his luck. Though he’s stuck in a seemingly dead-end job as an airport security agent, against all odds, Molly (Alice Eve), a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned. So are his friends, his family and even his ex-girlfriend. Now he has to figure out how to make the relationship work, even though he’d be the first to admit she’s totally out of his league.'

An 'outrageously gorgeous babe'? Have we all banged our heads and woken up in a particularly unenlightened moment of the 80s? At least that would explain most of the dreck on the radio. Directed by Brit Jim Field Smith, She's Out of My League looks like one of those increasingly prevalent yet rather creepy, comedies where:
A) Women are to be feared as a potentially lethal alien species
B) You're no-one unless you've got a gang of barely amusing buddies gathered around you, commenting on your every move
And C) The ultimate moral is that in a true and right world the entire global female populace would be lined up and rated in order of attractiveness, with the adjudged hotties then being doled out to the fellas who have the most far-out theories as to what Lost is actually all about and who can quote South Park like an admonishing clergyman quotes scripture.

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I think someone should write a paper on how Judd Apatow etc are trying to adversely influence Darwinian natural selection. These movies may be entertaining, people - but for all our sakes, think of the gene pool!