Trailer for Andrea's 'Big Nothing' with Simon Pegg.

Maybe it's just a rotten trailer (ok, no maybes about it), but the oh-so-timely MATRIX joke definitely is not promising - it's 2006. LATE 2006. In three years that joke will be ten years stale. Has this film been on the shelf for a really long time, or did someone think that was still funny? David Schwimmer is just poison, I have nothing else to say about him.

And perhaps Pegg viewed it as an interesting challenge as an actor, but I'm getting really tired of British and Australian actors and actresses having to check their natural accents at Customs when they enter the US. There are lots of folks from the UK here in the States who lead productive and happy lives while speaking with the same accents they've had all their lives. I have even met some of them, so I can personally verify their existence. Is there any reason at all in the plot that Simon Pegg's character couldn't be, you know, originally from England? I seriously doubt it. Unless I underestimate this film and that's a bitchin' third-act plot twist... ha HA, I'm secretly BRITISH!

At least this is not as ridiculous as Christian Bale's American-accented voice work on the UK-set HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE. I wanted to pistol-whip the genius behind that decision when I shelled out the cash to see that film. I can't even imagine what people in Britain must have thought of that - did you guys get the same dub we did? If your dub has the appropriate accents, I know what country I'm importing that title from.

(Apologies to UK readers, who will correctly point out that it's us across the Atlantic who have the odd accents, given the name of the language and all.)

I appreciate the posting of this trailer, as with Pegg's involvement it's a film I would have been curious about... but my curiosity has now been sated. Back to waiting patiently for HOT FUZZ. That looks good.

i understand what you're saying, rhymth-x, many british actors have suffered from either choosing to do american accents (and usually badly) often causing a dick van dyke comparison (in reverse though)... whether people are forced into it, it's far from unlikely though not always guaranteed. i'm british of course, still live in england, and agree with ricky gervais's comments about american job offeres, that he has (until now it seems) turned them down as he didn't want to be the english guy turning up in the film and opening his mouth to spoil the illusion. happens too often. anyway, there's the rest of the film to consider... and i'm not really looking forwards to 'hot fuzz' that much, probably will see it at the cinema out of interest, but i think british comedy works in the 30-minute format and not in films - hardly starved of comedy on TV here, are we?

I take it then that the UK HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE has the Yankee Christian Bale?

I actually don't think the English comedy works better or worse on TV or in cinema... maybe the local stuff (comedic or otherwise) just has more of a fighting chance on TV as opposed to in the multiplex?