The point where the people behind a sequel say, ‘let’s send the characters on holiday’, is the moment when they’re essentially admitting they’ve completely run out of ideas and are reaching for the default setting in order to try and milk a little more cash from a franchise. And so se get to Alvin And The Chipmunks – Chipwrecked, where Chipmunks and Chipettes are turning a luxury cruise liner into their personal playground, until they become ‘chipwrecked’ on a remote island. As the ‘Munks and Chipettes try various schemes to find their way home, they accidentally discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems. It sounds more than a little desperate, but as the first two made ridiculous amounts of money, there’s a decent chance this one will follow suit when it hits cinemas this Christmas. Take a look below for the brief, Titanic themese teaser.

After the first teaser for The Muppets was a parody of The Hangover Part 2, and the second initially made it look like a cheesy rom-com (before it got all puppety), it seemed we might be in for a whole summer of Muppet takes on the big movie released – which can only be a good thing. The new one parodies Green Lantern, and again is great fun, with Jason Segel even commenting about the fact they’ve already done too made parody trailer. Click below to take a look. What movie will be next to get a Muppets trailer ribbing, as there’s plenty of time for more before the film arrives in November?

Yesterday we brought you the Moneyball trailer as it was shown on Entertainment Tonight, which had the hosts of the show talking all over the footage and was pretty annoying. Now a nice clean, proper version has shown up, which we’ve now posted here, and suggests this could be a decent movie. Moneyball, based on Michael Lewis’s non-fiction book, sees Pitt play Billie Bean, manager of the underperforming Oakland-A’s baseball team, who hires Jonah Hill’s geeky computer whizz to create a mathematical system to build a winning team for comparatively little money out of other team’s cast-offs. The film, which was originally meant to be directed by Steven Soderbergh (but who left after Sony didn’t like his changes to the script and cancelled the shoot), but eventually helmed by Capote’s Bennett Miller, will be in cinemas later this year.

A new, rather fun trailer has shown up online for Our Idiot Brother, which stars Paul Rudd as Ned Rochlin, a kindhearted butclueless man who gets himself thrown in jail for ‘sympathetically’ offering some weed to a uniformed police officer. When he is released, his girlfriend kicks him out and forces him to live off the generosity of his three sisters and mother, whose stressful, ambitious lives are far from compatible with Ned’s laid-back and sunny approach. The harder Ned tries to spread joy and love, the more trouble he causes. No UK release date has been set yet, but it’s due out in the US in November, so expect it sometime around then.

Although a first glance at this trailer suggests Bellflower is the sort of micro-budget flick a lot of people ignore just because it doesn’t have the polish of a bigger production, the movie found a lot of fervent fans when it was screened at Sundance. The movie follows Woodrow and Aiden, who spend all of their free time building Mad Max inspired flame-throwers and weapons of mass destruction in preparation for a global apocalypse in which their imaginary gang, ‘Mother Medusa’, can emerge on top. But when Woodrow meets a charismatic young woman and falls hard in love, he and Aiden quickly integrate into a new group of friends, setting off on a journey of betrayal, love, hate, infidelity, and extreme violence more devastating and fiery than any of their apocalyptic fantasies. With favourable comparisons to the likes of Fight Club and Donnie Darko, Bellflower is one to watch out for. Unfortunately no UK release is yet set, but it’s due in the US in August, so we’ll have to hope it jumps over the pond shortly afterwards.

A while ago it was revealed that Disney was working on its first straight-to-DVD movie based on a Pixar flick, a spin-off from Cars called Planes. If you’re wondering why they’d bother with this, seeing as  Cars is normally seen as a lesser PIxar movie, the fact is as a franchise it’s currently the biggest thing Disney has, having sold billions in merchandise. Indeed, with the release of Cars 2 this summer, the House Of Mouse expects to make more in merchandising from it than they did from Toy Story 3 last year, irrespective of whether it does the same business in cinemas. So it does make sense to do a spin-off, even if most of the world likes to think of Pixar as being above such things as thinking about profit (and technically this isn’t a Pixar production, instead being produced by Disneytoon Studios. Anyway the first teaser trailer is here, and while it doesn’t show us much, it does look like it might be fun. It should be out nexy Spring.