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Honest Trailer - Interstellar

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Interstellar is the 97th episode of Screen Junkies comedy series Honest Trailers. It was written by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Erica Russell and Andy Signore. It was narrated by Jon Bailey as Epic Voice Guy. It parodies the 2014 American science-fiction film Interstellar. It was published on March 31, 2015, to coincide with the film's release on home video and Blu-ray. It is 4 minutes 59 seconds long. It has been viewed over 9.4 million times.

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"From the director who apparently gets a lifetime pass because he made The Dark Knight, comes the movie everyone respected for being ambitious and original, but also made them say, 'What's he doing in a space bookshelf?'" ~ Honest Trailers - Interstellar

Script[]

The following trailer is rated S for Spoilers.

From the director who apparently gets a lifetime pass because he made The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan), comes the movie everyone respected for being ambitious and original, but also made them say, "What's he doing in a space bookshelf?"

Interstellar

The Earth is really dusty, and we've run out of okra.

Donald: They're saying it's the last harvest for okra. Ever.

Matthew McConaughey stars as Matthew McConaughey, barely pretending to be a guy named Coop; he's a pilot turned corn farmer, struggling against the words trying to escape from his mouth...

Cooper: (mumbling) We farmers, we sit here every year when the rains fail, and we say: "Next year."

...but above all, he's a father to his beloved daughter Murph (montage of Cooper calling for Murph)... and his son Tom, who, by comparison, he couldn't give two sh*ts about.

Donald: Tom will be all right, but you got to make things right with Murph.

Cooper: I will.

When Cooper is sent to five-dimensional space to write NASA's coordinates out of the dust particles in his daughter's bedroom -- Don't worry; we'll get back to that. -- he'll embark on a mission to save the world with the help of Christopher Nolan's trademarks: on-the-nose dialogue about character motivations...

Donald: --you were good at something... and you never got a chance to do anything with it.

Brand: --the tiniest possibility of seeing Wolf again excites me.

Mann: --I can't watch you go through this. I'm sorry. I thought I could, but I can't.

...and dumbed-down analogies so the audience can keep up.

Romilly: If a black hole is an oyster, then the singularity's the pearl inside. / So a wormhole bends space like this (folds a piece of paper), so you can take a shortcut through... (jams a pencil through the folded paper)

Hey! You stole that one from Event Horizon!

Dr. William G. "Billy" Weir (Event Horizon): When the spacecraft... (jams a marker through a folded pinup poster) passes through the gateway, space returns to normal.

But Coop won't have to make this journey alone; along for the ride are these two redshirts (Doyle and Professor Romilly), a shapeshifting ATM (CASE), this crying girl (shows Brand crying), and the world's best scientist...

Professor Brand: --led by the remarkable Dr. Mann.

Brand: Dr. Mann? Well, he's remarkable. He's the best of us.

...who doesn't know how an airlock works.

Cooper: If you open the hatch, the airlock will depressurize.

Mann: There is a moment-- (gets sucked out into space)

Smooth.

Witness a visual masterpiece that assaults your eyes with breathtaking effects, and assaults your ears with emotional swells that sound like Hans Zimmer fell asleep on his organ. (montage of times an organ is played in the film's score)

TARS: (as a loud organ is heard) --three...

Aw, dammit! Turn it down!

TARS: ...two...

I can't hear my own epic voice!

TARS: --one. Booster ignition...

So try to follow along with a film that was praised by no less than Neil deGrasse Tyson for its scientific accuracy (pulls up a Tweet from Tyson reading "In #Interstellar: Experience Einstein's Relativity of Time as no other feature film has shown."), even though it goes full-blown Shyamalan at the end, in a final act that consists of... <deep inhale> Cooper taking a black hole to a five-dimensional test rack constructed by future humans...

Cooper: We brought ourselves.

...finding his daughter through the power of love...

Cooper: My connection with Murph, it is quantifiable.

...sending himself the coordinates to the secret NASA base that started this whole thing off from behind his daughter's bookcase (which is a paradox, by the way)...

Cooper: I brought myself here!

...tapping out complex scientific data from inside the black hole in Morse code on the second hand of a wristwatch, which Murph uses to solve gravity and save humanity...

Murph: EUREKA!!

...then getting spit out into space unscathed in only a space suit, just in time to be picked up by Space Rangers...

Cooper Station Doctor: The Rangers found you with only minutes left in your oxygen supply.

...who unfreeze his elderly daughter so they can finally reunite, only for her to tell him to go back into space after, like, a minute, so he can go back through the wormhole he just escaped from to find Anne Hathaway. Go ahead; tell us that didn't happen. It's not that we don't understand it; it's just really stupid.

Starring: The Astronaut Farmer (Matthew McConaughey as Joseph "Coop" Cooper); Star Trek: The Math of Caine (Michael Caine as Professor John Brand); Anne Goaway (Anne Hathaway as Dr. Amelia Brand); Murph! (Jessica Chastain as Murphy "Murph" Cooper); Luigi Affleck (Casey Affleck as Tom Cooper); That '70s Cameo (Topher Grace as Getty); Third Dick from the Sun (John Lithgow as Donald); PAL 9000 (Bill Irwin as TARS); and A Baked Potato (Matt Damon as Dr. Mann).

Christopher Nolan's Contact

for Interstellar - Christopher Nolan's Contact. Title design by .

Honest title for Interstellar - Christopher Nolan's Contact. Title design by Robert Holtby.

Brand: Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.

All right, all right, all... What? Wait, what?!

Trivia[]

  • An Honest Trailer Commentary for this episode was recorded and was available on the Screen Junkies Plus until the website/app was discontinued. Screen Junkies don't currently have any way of releasing the video.

Reception[]

Honest Trailers - Interstellar has a 95.9% approval rating from YouTube viewers. Digital Trends wrote "Screen Junkies’ “Honest Trailers” video series has a knack for skewering films in a way that somehow finds the balance between outright ridicule and the sort of clever criticism that even stalwart fans of the film can appreciate." Slash Film agreed with this sentiment, writing "even though I really enjoyed the film despite its flaws (including yes, the award winning “sound design”), it’s hard not to agree with some of their humorously well-presented points." Gizmodo wrote "I love watching Honest Trailers' takedown of movies because they highlight actual problems, they're actually really funny and they have no sacred cows." MovieFone wrote that the Hones Trailer "perfectly sums up" the film's flaws.

Production credits[]

Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - Interstellar

Video thumbnail for Honest Trailers - Interstellar

Voiceover Narration by Jon Bailey

Title design by Robert Holtby

Series Created by Andy Signore & Brett Weiner

Written by Spencer Gilbert, Dan Murrell, Erica Russell & Andy Signore

Edited by Dan Murrell

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