A bunch of the movie blogs around the Internet are buzzing about the trailer featured below for Defendor, a canadian superhero feature starring Woody Harrelson, Kat Dennings and Sandra Oh. In the film Harrelson stars as Arthur Poppington, a “regular” man who adopts a superhero persona calling himself “Defendor” on his way to fight crime and take down a drug and weapons dealer he refers to as “Captain Industry.”
The film is written and directed by Peter Stebbings and looks to be some kind of screwball comedy that goes all misunderstood dummy in the and, and I use “comedy” lightly since this trailer didn’t even give me a chuckle. Defendor’s weapons include the likes of marbles and lime juice and apparently that is part of the joke as is his duct-taped on “D” on his uniform.
Plenty of the bloggers are comparing it to Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass, which is expected to be ultra-violent, but from what I am hearing along the same lines.
Defendor will be at the Toronto Film Festival so I guess we may hear more about it from there, but give the trailer a watch below. Are you laughing? Interested in seeing this one?
