The purely visceral experience that masquerades as an Arnold-starring Christmas movie almost goes without advertising – either you’ll see it and love it, or avoid it like the plague. Therefore, any trailer would have done the job, but the strange, uber-christmas-y, lyric-synopsis approach was an interesting choice. I can’t say that I’m a fan of the trailer, I would have preferred perhaps a booming announcer’s voice telling the same summation instead of the annoying, ad-like song. Just imagine: “In a world..where Turboman is king, one man must race against time..” As it is (and this is difficult to wrap my mind around), it almost treats the movie as….too stupid. It’s as if you’re channeling the trailer editor, who after combing through the movie thousands of times, is liable to reach breaking point at the next sign of tinsel, and goes home to mock the movie to his (or her) family. Regardless, it’s as good of a use of 2 minutes as the movie is of 2 hours, take that as you will. And to sum it all up into a holiday lesson, when I saw the trailer, before the movie was released, I declared, in all my 13 year old snobbery, that I would never see that heinously stupid movie. And here I am now, with an annual tradition of rejoicing in its glory. So let’s all learn to give all things a chance, and welcome, with open arms, extremely stupid things into our lives. Merry Christmas.
