Movies With Butter

If you want to make a Hercules movie that works, you've got to go big or go home -- both in terms of your hero's physique as well as your approach to the level of cheddar-scented bombast that should coat every page of your screenplay. With Brett Ratner in the director's chair and Dwayne Johnson in the lead, MGM's Hercules would seem to have everything it needs to go big -- and judging from this first cheese-riffic trailer, very few action fans will want to stay home when the movie opens on July 25.

The trailer doesn't give much away in terms of story, opting instead to offer a series of quick-cut glimpses of all the mayhem Johnson's going to get himself into as our titular hero, from seething in chains to whupping giant monsters and watching exotic maidens do the hoochie dance. It's all fairly basic stuff, to be certain -- which, as luck would have it, is pretty much exactly what Hercules' target demographic is looking for in a well-muscled summer blockbuster. Feast your eyes, folks:

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