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January 21, 2016 11:41 AM

Key and Peele may have said their goodbyes to television, but they will soon return to the big screen in their first feature film "Keanu", whose red band NSFW trailer dropped today.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI (36 comments total)

Key and Peele may have said their goodbyes to television ...

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posted by ZenMasterThis at 11:42 AM on January 21, 2016

After the recent spate of celebrities joining the choir invisible, my heart sank when I saw #Keanu trending earlier.
posted by Celsius1414 at 11:44 AM on January 21, 2016 [11 favorites]

I figure this will be a US-only release, right?...
:(
posted by bigendian at 11:50 AM on January 21, 2016

Too much N word!

But that's just me.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 12:13 PM on January 21, 2016

That really is the cutest kitten ever. Would love to see a video of the tryouts for the part.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:14 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

I enjoyed that trailer and expect to enjoy the movie.
posted by not that girl at 12:21 PM on January 21, 2016

Oh hell yes.
posted by tonycpsu at 12:31 PM on January 21, 2016

Oh man all the action-movie kitten slo-mo shots are hilarious.
posted by anazgnos at 12:50 PM on January 21, 2016 [6 favorites]

I love it when Key and Peele just play themselves.
posted by edheil at 12:54 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Kind of a shock to see a movie that wants to make me laugh, instead of making me feel squirmy and queasy and expecting me to find that funny.
posted by Flexagon at 1:00 PM on January 21, 2016

That right there is mah shit!
posted by OHenryPacey at 1:03 PM on January 21, 2016 [9 favorites]

The Keys and Peeles have a movie?
posted by Etrigan at 1:05 PM on January 21, 2016 [10 favorites]

I'm not comfortable with how Key and Peele embrace gun violence in their comedy. Maybe that's a part of the joke for them and I just don't get it, but it's really gross and weak to me how guns are their visual and storytelling shortcut whenever they need to depict conflict.

I mean, this looks like a remake of Baby's Day Out with a kitten and two black dads; why can't we have the same lowbrow, slapstick humor without the guns. There's plenty of precedent for that and they're surely clever enough to write a script where a gunfight isn't necessary.
posted by peeedro at 1:06 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

It is also entirely possible that this is a 2 minute clip from a 90 minute movie, and they use their many talents to skewer the tropes of gun violence in film in the full length film.
posted by OHenryPacey at 1:09 PM on January 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

link for non-USians
posted by Artful Codger at 1:15 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

They do have some history of taking on gunfight/standoff tropes.
posted by Etrigan at 1:17 PM on January 21, 2016

Too much N word!

It seems like they are playing up the white-talking black guy thing, the N-word usage being a crutch because the characters are trying to fit in. Works for me.
posted by sparklemotion at 1:27 PM on January 21, 2016

Re: Key and Peele gunfights, this too.

My point is that this trailer drops the N-bomb three times and that's how it earned the red band NSFW trailer rating. Meanwhile there are at least two dozen shots of characters holding or shooting guns. But for Key and Peele gun violence totally cool and part and parcel of their comedy. Yeah, the N-bomb is offensive, but did it ever kill anybody?
posted by peeedro at 1:36 PM on January 21, 2016

A few funny bits in there but the laugh out loud moment for me was the George Michael thing at the end. He did that so perfectly.
posted by chococat at 1:39 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

So much kitten and George Michael. Father Figure when the kitten shows up killed me.
posted by fluffy battle kitten at 1:41 PM on January 21, 2016 [4 favorites]

I mean, this looks like a remake of Baby's Day Out with a kitten and two black dads; why can't we have the same lowbrow, slapstick humor without the guns.

I agree with your point in general, but the movie actually appears to be more or less a parody of John Wick, the (very good, IMO) Keanu Reeves movie that consists of pretty much nothing except an adorable puppy and guns. It seems like they've added a healthy dose of their trademark subject matter of "what is blackness" into it, so it's not a straight parody, but it wouldn't come across as a play on Wick without guns.
posted by mellow seas at 1:45 PM on January 21, 2016 [9 favorites]

I hope they put the pussy on the chainwax with this one!
posted by Catblack at 1:57 PM on January 21, 2016 [3 favorites]

For some reason, I really, really hope that Keanu himself makes a cameo. Like, he could be recreating his infamous sad-guy-on-the-bench photo and he catches a glimpse of the kitten and his whole face lights up.
posted by Halloween Jack at 2:17 PM on January 21, 2016 [9 favorites]

I really, really hope that Keanu himself makes a cameo.

Meh. I'd rather see some LIAM NEESONS!
posted by CaseyB at 2:25 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

Kittens grow up really fast right? So how many kittens did they have on set to deal with the inevitable growth spurts?
posted by tipsyBumblebee at 2:46 PM on January 21, 2016

Meh. I'd rather see some LIAM NEESONS!

Nah, I'm all about BRUCE WILLY
posted by bawanaal at 2:51 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

I want ARNOLD SCHWARTZS cause he promised he'd be back.
posted by praiseb at 3:20 PM on January 21, 2016

Good enough for the Rock-a-Fire Explosion, good enough for me
posted by Senor Cardgage at 3:55 PM on January 21, 2016

I'd be happy with some racist-ass Melly Gibsons.
posted by ericales at 4:47 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

No, what it's really going to need is some of the Dinkles. Season six of Game of Thrones will have started by then so he'd be topical again.

I'm still having a hard time believing this is actually a movie and not a movie trailer sketch. These guys.
posted by fuse theorem at 4:59 PM on January 21, 2016 [2 favorites]

I wonder if they're parodying this as well.
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 6:06 PM on January 21, 2016

I'm torn. On the one hand, I really want to see this, because Key and Peele. On the other hand, there's an adorable kitten that looks to be in serious peril and I don't know if I can take the stress of worrying about it. Someone needs to watch the movie for me ahead of time and reassure me that the kitten comes out unscathed.
posted by tdismukes at 6:44 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

One of my most anticipated films of the year. It's directed by Peter Atencio, who directed almost all of the sketches for the TV show, and ive been waiting for him to take up a feature project for awhile.

Also, I'm not outright against K&P doing a Police Academy reboot, but I am happy that they're doing something like this first.
posted by dogwalker at 6:52 PM on January 21, 2016 [1 favorite]

This seems like a real stride forward in cat video art. Usually cats on film look like they're just waiting for a chance to get away and relax; this kitten looks like he rules. I bet the cat wrangler spent a lot of time desensitizing him to the people in the film, the cameras, the sets, etc.

Is it time for a famous movie cat?
posted by amtho at 7:37 AM on January 22, 2016

qcubed, Slack wants me to sign in to view that link.
posted by xedrik at 10:09 AM on January 24, 2016

See, now I'm starting to think this is some kind of elaborate inside-Hollywood joke. This one has an IMDb page and a movie poster too.
posted by fuse theorem at 8:34 AM on January 31, 2016 [1 favorite]