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The premiere tour starts Thurs in Aus, then Tues in London, so expect some reviews and reactions end of this week/early next week.

It isn't....seems it's indeed with GB.

yes it is. said that as soon as they announced the music video will be an IMAX exclusive with Tarzan

Yeah seems that music video is the 4min IMAX exclusive.....

Surprised how much I liked this trailer. Really, really well put together.

What's the point though now Thurs night openings are so commonplace? And don't think the Wed night IMAX thing is a factor really - they didn't move Hunger Games to a Thurs release because they had a MJ1&2 double bill Wednesday

It's that same fan who called Sony. yeah it can't be any later than GB to be honest.

Holy fuck someone actually got through to Rothman

Okay, this was pretty damn good fun, especially back to back with the first one. It's everything you'd expect from a modern-day mega CGI Independence Day sequel, just more "humanity f- yeah" instead of "America f- yeah" (yay), hilarious yet fitting China pandering (yay because still swooning over Angelababy) and 200% more fast paced than the first because, you know, short attention spans and more showings ergo more box office (nay......) Negatives out the way first - it just goes too damn quickly, the D-porn that was so well paced in the original is blink-and-you-miss-it here, which is a shame - given how massive it all is you just don't feel the build and eventual impact unlike the first film. I wondered what was up with that just under 2 hour runtime.....and now I see what's up with that. The story is as ridiculous as you'd expect and tone is done well enough to sell it to the audience - essentially it's all a cross between Catching Fire's 'repeat formula but with big budget visuals and add sweet worldbuilding and sequel setup' and TFA's 'passing of the torch'. There were curiously quite a few scenes in the trailers (& the novelization) that weren't in, particularly one awesome one I was hoping to see ("You are screwing with the wrong species!"), and with the breakneck pacing added I hope Emmerich, like with the first one, comes out with an extended cut of this on Blu because that'd then put this film on the level of the first one, while currently it's just below. The new young cast are not too bad at all to watch actually, good fun. Of course the oldies steal the show - Golblum and Pullman especially. Out of the new cast Fichtner and Gainsbourg really stood out - hope to see more of them. Important to add - lack of Will Smith was not felt at all.........and he was way less of a deal in the first one than I remembered/everyone made him out to be. Bring a whole load of popcorn and bring on the threequel (I hope this makes enough money so it happens) Solid 7.5/10

New trailer drops tomorrow