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Pete Kilmer: To echo what others are saying, I love the Resident Evil franchise of games and the movies and even the comics (though those could be a hell of a lot better.). In regards to the trailer saying that it's using Cameron's camera technology for 3D is a huge thing to me and other nerds that will see this film. See, we nerds, will know which movies are 2D that have been converted to 3D (Alice, Clash). So taking out the potential bad word-of-mouth right at the start in regards to 3D is a good thing. Sure, this movie looks like a mashup of Matrix stuff with more videogame elements from the RE Franchise. But you know what? For me, that's fine. I want ass-kicking women smacking down brain dead zombies. I want Wesker to become the villain he should always have been...I can't wait. Now, how will it open? Well we're five months out and I say at least $35 million.

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David Mumpower: This is the character we would get if Brick Tamland and Michael Scott could have a child together. Also, I think the Wolfpack of One guy is stealing the intellectual property of whomever owns Mentok the Mind-Taker.

Josh Spiegel: Talk about a strangely mixed bag. On the one hand, you have Steve Carell and Paul Rudd again. I love it. On the other hand, you have Jay Roach (the man who foisted the Meet The Parents movies and the third Austin Powers film on us, along with its predecessors) directing. Not so much. On the one hand, Carell manages to be a complete idiot but Rudd isn't being needlessly cruel to him. On the other hand...was that Jeff Dunham I saw?

Yeesh. I'll see this movie (Rudd's Shining reference and the mere thought of Carell, Rudd, and Zach Galifianakis on screen together were enough to sell me), but I'm a bit skeptical.

Michael Lynderey: Ah, so Hollywood is finally back to remaking French comedies (how long has it been?), and Paul Rudd is once again the straight man to a bunch of weirdoes. Funny how Carell is going back to his Anchorman roots, though I could easily see Galifianakis in the same role. As for the trailer - looks okay - but who really knows? If it's good, it'll do well, if it's bad or too weird, it probably won't. But the elements are definitely in place.

David Mumpower: This is a painfully unfunny trailer. My sole regret is that the moment where Carell is run over by a car isn't real and nothing is broken. Jay Roach's movies make tons of money and I almost never like them. Seriously, I have enjoyed two of his ten theatrical releases, Meet the Parents and the first Austin Powers film plus the HBO film, Recount. Mystery, Alaska is okay. Everything else is in "I want my money back" territory. This means my opinion is utterly useless here but DAYAM. These are the funniest jokes they could sell in an ad? Anchorman reunion or not, I'll pass.

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