Red-Band Trailer for WORLD’S GREATEST DAD

If there was a film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival that got more enthusiastic raves among my peers than “World’s Greatest Dad”, I didn’t hear about it.  Films like “Big Fan”, “Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire”, and “Moon” were certainly beloved, but I was astonished at how unanimous and fervent the praise was for Bobcat Goldthwait’s dark comedy starring Robin Williams.  Click here to read Peyton’s mini-review of the film.

Yesterday, I mocked the poster for completely mis-selling the film and hoped that the trailer would be just as deceptive.  Today, we have the film’s red-band trailer and while it’s not as bad as the poster, it doesn’t tell you the film’s major plot point.  It’s not even a spoiler.  It’s the premise for the movie.  I guess they feel that even for a red-band trailer it’s too dark so instead they fire off a few great dirty jokes and try to make it look like an R-rated version of “Problem Child”. …