The arrival of the Super Bowl usually brings with it a host of new movie trailers. Most studios produce truncated 30-second versions for the game itself (eight million is a lot of money) and post the full versions online. However, two-thirds of the upcoming movies mentioned here elected not to do that, choosing instead to simply repost their Big Game spots with no extended footage. It’s worth noting, though, even with their short runtime these spots include scenes no one’s seen before.

The Smurfs Big Game Spot focuses almost entirely on the fact that Rihanna voices Smurfette. I guess you can’t blame them — “Rihanna” is a bigger brand than “Smurfs” these days. Yet the movies keep coming. This one serves as a reboot of sorts, the third the franchise has had on the big screen alone. This time there are TWO wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, who kidnap Papa Smurf and force Rihanna Smurf to lead a rescue mission.

“Smurfs” also stars the voices of James Corden, Nick Offerman, JP Karliak, Daniel Levy, Amy Sedaris, Natasha Lyonne, Sandra Oh, Octavia Spencer, Nick Kroll, Hannah Waddingham, Alex Winter, Maya Erskine, Billie Lourd, Xolo Maridueña and Kurt Russell. It turns the silver screen blue July 18.

Like you, I don’t see the point in remaking the original How To Train Your Dragon when the original works just fine, but I suspect the point is “money.” Also, animation-wise, there’s noplace else to go — the original continuity has been exhausted and there’s even a TV show where the dragons emerge in the present day.

The live-action remake stars Mason Thames as Hiccup, Nico Parker as Astrid, Nick Frost as Gobber and Julian Dennison as Fishlegs Ingerman, as well as Gerard Butler reprising his role of Viking chief Stoick The Vast. It’ll take off June 13, 2025.

Thunderbolts* is the latest Marvel ensemble movie starring Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes, David Harbour as Red Guardian, Hannah John-Kamen as Ghost, Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster and Wyatt Russell as John Walker. It’s a lot like Marvel’s version of the Suicide Squad, and it even has its own Amanda Waller in Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the elegantly named operative who sets up the whole mission and sends them off sacrificially.

We still don’t know what the asterisk means, though we’ve been pointed in a couple directions. In one previous trailer Red Guardian suggests the name, only to be shot down: “We’re not calling ourselves that.” In that context it could mean “Thunderbolts” is an unofficial name. But then there’s what appeared on a Japanese poster for the film a few days ago: under the logo there were the English words “*THE AVENGERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE.” de Fontaine also repeats this in the new trailer. We may receive the final answer prior to May 2…and we may not.

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