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Some trailers spoil the big surprises, while others lead us down the wrong path entirely. Today, we’re exploring trailers that revealed major plot twists upfront and those that cleverly misled audiences about what to expect. From heart-wrenching dramas to sci-fi thrillers and unexpected musicals, discover which films gave away too much and which ones pulled the wool over our eyes.
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00:00Regina George.
00:01Don't look her in the eye!
00:03You could be really hot if you change, like, everything.
00:07Welcome to Miss Mojo, and today we're looking at five trailers that gave away major plot details
00:11and five that deceived the audience into thinking they were getting something else.
00:15We will have to get into some spoilers.
00:17You should have seen the blood.
00:20The whole place was, well, it's too horrible to describe.
00:26The Majestic gave away everything.
00:29Once upon a time, a stranger came to town.
00:33You have no idea who you are or how you got here?
00:36Wait.
00:37In this throwback to Frank Capra, Jim Carrey plays a man who washes up on the shore of a small town with amnesia.
00:43He's believed to be Luke Trimble, a soldier who went missing during the war.
00:47I don't even know who I am.
00:49It's Luke!
00:50Just look at him.
00:51Look at you!
00:53Look at you!
00:54Seeing you walk down the street was like seeing one of my own boys alive again.
01:00This setup seems tailor-made for a mystery as Carrey's character tries to remember.
01:04Yet, the trailers make it clear that Carrey isn't Luke.
01:07Do you remember me?
01:09No, but I'll sure try.
01:10One trailer outright says he's Peter Appleton, revealing aspects of his life before the car accident that affected his memory.
01:16Peter Appleton has lost his way.
01:20To be fair, the film itself is forthright about Peter's past, with the first act exploring his life as a screenwriter accused of communism.
01:27Nevertheless, the film and trailers would have been more effective if the audience hadn't been given so much information about Peter up front.
01:33Well, what do you remember?
01:37Everything.
01:38Kangaroo Jack tricked us.
01:40You take this envelope to send you Australia.
01:45Oh my God!
01:47Hey, check this out.
01:48That's like 50 grand there.
01:49Originally, this Jerry Bruckheimer production was going to be a hard R mob comedy entitled Down and Under.
01:55You're a tough little guy, aren't you?
02:01Hey, look how tall he is.
02:03Oh!
02:08With the rough cuts proving underwhelming, though, the producers had a bright idea.
02:12What if...
02:13Kangaroo?
02:13A simple delivery...
02:15Delivery to let down under!
02:18Is about to wind up...
02:21In the wrong pocket.
02:23The adult content was trimmed down to achieve a PG rating with additional scenes with a CGI kangaroo were added.
02:28The trailer prominently features the titular kangaroo Jack, ending with him talking and rapping.
02:32To the dismay of audiences who made this number one at the box office upon release, Jack was barely in his own movie and only talked in a couple of scenes.
02:40On January 17th...
02:42Jack your legs!
02:43Jerry Bruckheimer presents...
02:45...the story of two best friends...
02:49You've really got to come back on that pie!
02:52Who travel to the ends of the earth...
02:54To catch the world's most unlikely thief.
03:03The marketing team took a page from Snow Dogs, which similarly played up the one scene where the animals speak.
03:08Then, you really stepped in at this time!
03:17Disney's Snow Dogs.
03:19If you're going to steal, steal from the best.
03:22Kangaroo Jack.
03:23Love the jacket, Charlie!
03:25Nice!
03:26I say the hip-hop, the hippie, the hippie to the hip-hip-hop and you don't stop!
03:30Rocky IV gave away everything.
03:32The death of Apollo Creed is one of the most shocking moments in the Rocky franchise.
03:47At least, it would have been if the trailer hadn't spoiled that twist.
03:49It'd be one thing if the trailer merely exhibited Drago fighting Apollo in the ring.
03:54However, the trailer doesn't just spotlight Drago delivering a fatal blow.
03:57It shows Rocky attending Creed's funeral with the announcer saying that his best friend died.
04:02He could have saved his best friend's life.
04:05I'll never forget you, Apollo.
04:07But now, the one thing he can't do is walk away.
04:11There's no room for ambiguity.
04:13Anyone who went into Rocky IV knew that Apollo wouldn't live to see the credits.
04:17The trailer ends with Rocky preparing to face Drago.
04:20It doesn't reveal the outcome of the fight,
04:22but audiences could deduce that they weren't going to kill off Apollo and Rocky in the same movie.
04:27I must break you.
04:32Rocky IV
04:40Hereditary.
04:41Tricked us.
04:42You know you were her favourite, right?
04:44Even when you were a little baby, she wouldn't let me feed you because she needed to feed you.
04:48The Hereditary trailer makes our spine tingle every time that young Charlie clicks her tongue.
04:52While the trailer captures the film's unnerving tone, it sells us a different premise.
04:56Based on the advertising, one might assume that Hereditary is in the spirit of the Omen,
04:59or the bad seed, with an evil child at the core.
05:03She had private rituals, private friends.
05:09Who's going to take care of me?
05:10You don't think I'm going to take care of you?
05:13But when you die...
05:14Much of the trailer centres on Charlie creepily staring into the distance,
05:18and committing unsettling acts like cutting off a dead bird's head.
05:21That's not the only beheading in the film.
05:23To the audience's horror, the first act culminates in Charlie losing hers.
05:27The film still revolves around what happened to Charlie, but the trailer went over our heads
05:30in more ways than one.
05:32I just don't want to put any more stress on my family.
05:42Terminator 2 Judgment Day gave away everything.
05:45Same make.
05:47These were taken at the West Highland Police Station, 1984.
05:50You were there.
05:52Same model.
05:53Since Arnold Schwarzenegger played the villain in the first Terminator,
05:57it only made sense for the audience to assume that he'd be the sequel's main threat.
06:02New mission.
06:06Once he was programmed to destroy the future.
06:10You don't know what it's like to try to kill one of these things.
06:13Now his mission, get down,
06:17is to protect it.
06:19The opening of Terminator 2 implies this,
06:21setting up Robert Patrick's character to be the hero who will defend John Connor from the T-800.
06:26James Cameron pulls a bait and switch manoeuvre when the T-800 tells John to get down.
06:30Suddenly, we realise that Patrick's T-1000 is the baddie, and the T-800 is John's protector.
06:36Come with me if you want to live.
06:38That is, unless you saw the trailer, in which the narrator says that this T-800 is a good guy.
06:44Seeing how Schwarzenegger had become a bankable action hero,
06:56forget why marketing wanted to emphasise the hero part.
06:59But it does the twist a disservice.
07:02Arnold Schwarzenegger.
07:05Terminator 2.
07:07Judgment Day.
07:08This time he's back.
07:11We're good.
07:12Trust me.
07:13My Girl tricked us.
07:14There he was, just a-walking down the street, singing…
07:21Later!
07:21Death?
07:22After Home Alone, McCauley Culkin was the biggest little star in the world.
07:25A year later, he appeared in My Girl as Thomas J, protagonist of Varda's best friend.
07:30That's my best friend, Veda Saltonfuss.
07:32Veda and Thomas!
07:35Most of the girls don't appreciate her.
07:37I always surround myself with people who I find intellectually stimulating.
07:41Culkin narrated the trailer, selling us a coming-of-age romance between two kids.
07:45While Varda and Thomas J had adorable chemistry,
07:47their love story is also the most devastating thing we've ever seen.
07:51Have you ever kissed anyone?
07:52No.
07:55My Girl has gained a reputation as the movie with McCauley Culkin and The Bees.
07:59The trailer doesn't prepare us for the emotional whiplash of it all.
08:03It touches upon the fact that Varda's father runs a funeral parlour,
08:06but we never expected Thomas J to wind up in one of those coffins,
08:09especially judging from the cutesy, light-hearted tone this trailer sets.
08:13They say sometimes, when you get older, friends stop being friends.
08:17But not Veda and me, she'll always be My Girl.
08:22Cast Away gave away everything.
08:24Hello? Anybody?
08:37I never should have gotten on that plane.
08:38Cast Away Reunited directed Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks after Forrest Gump.
08:43That collaboration alone was enough to catch viewers' attention.
08:45The premise of Hanks' character being stranded on a deserted island was also a gripping hook.
08:50The trailer didn't need to showcase anything other than the set-up and talent involved.
08:59Instead, it keeps going, revealing that Hanks returns to civilisation after being presumed dead for four years.
09:05Tom Hanks.
09:06You wouldn't have a match.
09:07Any chance, would you?
09:08At the edge of the world.
09:12I have made fire!
09:15The end of a man's journey will become the beginning of his life.
09:21We see him reunite with his love interest, played by Helen Hunt.
09:24The trailer even leaves us on the final shot of Hanks looking into the distance,
09:28contemplating where to go from there.
09:30The trailer strips the film of its tension, which largely hinges on whether or not Hanks will escape the island.
09:35You were lost for four years.
09:39We had a funeral.
09:40Coffin.
09:41What was in it?
09:42Various movie musicals.
09:44Tricked us.
09:45Live-action movie musicals made a comeback in the early 21st century with Moulin Rouge and Chicago.
09:49The trailers for both films have characters singing on stage,
09:52but tiptoe around the fact that these are full-blown musicals where characters sporadically break out into songs.
09:57Roxanne.
10:01I am willing to provide the financial resources to make you a star.
10:05You don't have to wear that dress tonight.
10:09The sex and violence are emphasized over the musical numbers.
10:12Such deceit remains a common trend when marketing movie musicals.
10:16You're the Velma Kelly.
10:18I was there the night that you got arrested.
10:20Yeah, you and half of Chicago.
10:22You couldn't buy that kind of publicity.
10:24Between December 2023 and January 2024, The Color Purple, Wonka, and Mean Girls came out.
10:30All three were musicals, much to the surprise of moviegoers who didn't do any research outside of the trailers.
10:35Mark my words, this is going to be the greatest chocolate shop the world has ever seen.
10:42There's a mentality that movie musicals just don't sell,
10:45but maybe they'd do better at the box office if the advertising targeted Broadway fans.
10:49Dear Sealy, we are more than just kings and queens.
10:55We are at the center of the universe.
10:56Psycho gave away everything.
10:59An old house, which is, if I may say so, a little more sinister looking, less innocent than the motel itself.
11:11Alfred Hitchcock was determined to keep the twist in Psycho under wraps.
11:14He even mandated that theater patrons who arrived late wouldn't be granted admission, adding to the mystery surrounding his film.
11:20So we're not sure why he hosted a trailer breaking down some of the movie's key scenes.
11:24But the second murder took place.
11:27She came out of the door there and met the victim at the top.
11:32Of course, in a flash, there was the knife.
11:35And in no time, the victim tumbled and fell with a horrible crash.
11:41I think the bat broke immediately and hit the floor.
11:44Hitchcock takes the audience on a tour of the Bates Motel and house, revealing where several crimes were committed.
11:49The director bites his tongue before saying too much, but he still tells his viewers what to anticipate.
11:54And the imprint of her figure on the bed where she used to lay.
12:01I think some of her clothes are still in this wardrobe.
12:04The trailer ends with Hitch informing us that a bloody mess occurred in the bathroom, recreating the now iconic shower scene.
12:11Hitch gives away everything without actually giving away anything, putting this trailer in a class on its own.
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12:37This promotional preview is essentially a trailer within a trailer.
12:50A cynical producer isn't satisfied with the film's trailer, arguing that it sets the audience up for unrealistic expectations.
12:56He changes his tune after encountering several celebrities who attest that the film is everything the trailer promises.
13:01The producer finds that a movie can be romantic, hilarious and exciting, but the trailer emits a crucial detail.
13:07Have you seen Miracle on 34th Street?
13:09Have I?
13:09Yeah, it's wonderful.
13:10Yeah, I understand.
13:11It's a pretty good comedy.
13:12Comedy?
13:14Well, I suppose that's true.
13:16I had a million laughs, but the thing that got me were the tears in between.
13:20Miracle on 34th Street is a Christmas movie.
13:22Vox co-founder Darryl F. Zanuck had so little faith in the picture that he wanted its release in May.
13:28It ultimately came out in June, with the marketing team avoiding any holiday references.
13:38Christmas came early for those who just saw this trailer and then suddenly Santa Claus showed up.
13:43It's romantic.
13:44It's tender.
13:45It's charming.
13:46It's delightful.
13:47It's exciting.
13:49And it's groovy.
13:50Yes.
13:51Yes, Mr. Schaefer.
13:52That does it, boss.
13:53Mr. Schaefer, you've got a great idea.
13:57Naturally.
13:58Now, I'll tell you what we do.
14:04What movie trailer tricked you?
14:05Which spoiled everything for you?
14:07Let us know in the comments.
14:09What do you make a trailer for?
14:11To give the public an idea of what kind of a picture to expect.
14:23I have to Ta-Roy populations.
14:23Is it exactly how to go from one door?
14:24I hope it was the most памplening test-ups in the shoes.
14:40Since the front door strikes.
14:42Nope.
14:42I'll tell you what happens.
14:43Should be died.
14:43Do we go ahead on the foot-ounce?
14:44believe that in the door.
14:46That's right.
14:46I'll tell you what if we wash over there?
14:46If there's meatía.
14:47ais Oder noticeable,
14:48No.
14:49You Jane.
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