Well, it’s official. The summer movie season is in full swing. With the release of the not-very-good X-Men Origins: Wolverine (I so wanted to like it, I probably would’ve enjoyed it if Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds were just wandering around killing things and blowing stuff up as long as it had… um… a STORY… or a SCRIPT… DAMMIT… but I digress) we’ve hit the 3-4 month stretch of popcorn chomping blockbuster entertainment. This year has a long way to go if it wants to overtake 2008’s ridiculous haul on the heels of The Dark Knight but I think there’s a pretty wide range of solid hits just waiting to happen, so we’ll see. In any event, Wolverine did manage to pull a whole bunch of cool trailers out of the woodwork, so we might as well get started on this week’s trailer Round-Up. In case you’re wondering, I’m saving Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen for it’s own article in a couple of minutes, just because I think it’s one of the more interesting examples of trailer advertising to have come out in quite a while.

G.I. Joe Here’s the first full trailer for Stephen Sommers’s August summer popcorn flick based on the popular toy line and several animated cartoons over the years. It looks to be heavy on the cheese factor, and if it’s anything like Van Helsing, we know that the dialogue will be about as dicey as the realism of the narrative. On the other hand, it’s G.I. Joe, and honestly, taking this movie seriously would probably be a giant mistake. I think it sort of works towards the director’s strengths in a lot of ways, and by starting the bar rather low, that means a bunny-hop will get it over the top into “fun” territory.

District 9 I’ve been pretty excited about this one since I first heard about it. Peter Jackson’s producing the film directed by Neill Blomkamp about alien illegals living under government scrutiny. The pseudo-documentary style is looking pretty sweet and I recommend checking out Neill’s shorts on YouTube. He was going to direct the Halo movie before that fell through, and I gotta say, he would have done a bang-up job.

Adam It got rave reviews at Sundance this year and stars Rose Byrne who’s pretty. Yeah, I guess I’m just gonna have to admit I don’t know jack about this film that you won’t know by watching the trailer. It does look like the kind of romantic movie I wouldn’t gouge my eyes out at, so I guess that’s a plus.

Julie and Julia It’s got Merryl Streep. It’s got Amy Adams. It’s a happier movie than Doubt. It deals with Julia Child’s history and how that connects to her modern day counterpart. Sounds like a winner for women everywhere. Seeing as I’m not one, I don’t really see anything worth watching here so I’m obviously not the target audience. That is all.

H2 The lightning fast Rob Zombie sequel to his Halloween remake has gotten itself a trailer. Looks scary. Looks dark. Big slow moving baddie wielding heavy objects. Girls screaming. What more do you want? A good film? Apparently a lot of people are excited for it, I’m just not one of them.

G-Force Here’s the first true theatrical trailer for the Jerry Bruckheimer thought bubble. Wish i could have seen his assistant’s face when he said, “Hamsters as undercover government operatives. CGI talking hamsters. Sounds like a winner.” I dunno if I could’ve kept a straight face. Surprisingly, isn’t looking awful in this ad, but there’s plenty of time for it to get substantially worse. Bill Nighy as the bad-guy is the only part of this movie I’m rooting for at this moment.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Yeah, I know it’s already out. Unfortunately it doesn’t live up to its trailers, so I figure posting this last theatrical ad is the best way of addressing the film. Describing this trailer is basically to say that it’s almost identical to the old ComiCon trailer that premiered way back when, except with the “god damn” cut out of the line “I’m gonna cut your god damn head off, see if that works.” Oh yeah, and the effects are done. Um. Yeah. That pretty much wraps it up.

Check back next week for all the latest clips and stay tuned for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen article to come.