Full ‘A-Team’ Trailer Takes Aim At Your Childhood

Hollywood has three high-profile attempts to get me to renounce the early ’80s this year. Their first, “Clash Of The Titans,” comes out tomorrow (the RCC review hits at 5:01 pm today, to honor the embargo). “Tron Legacy” rezzes up this Christmas. In the middle of that is Joe Carnahan’s rethink of Stephen J. Cannell’s magnum opus, “The A-Team.”

Like everything remake-related, I’m leery of modernizing the stuff that makes up my childhood. I have blissful memories of watching “The A-Team” at my grandparents’ house, sitting just close enough to the TV that I wouldn’t get scolded for eyesight-ruining proximity. On the playground, while most of the kids in my fifth-grade class wanted to be B.A. Baracus or Col. Hannibal Smith, I wanted to be Templeton “Faceman” Peck.

If I had any reason to hope for something resembling a good flick, it would be the director: Joe Carnahan made “Smokin’ Aces.” That level of bloodlust goes counter to the “A-Team” creed, where not one person died from a gunshot wound on the show, but the mindset is dead-on with where the “A-Team” movies needs to come from.

Preamble over. Take a look at the full HD trailer for Carnahan’s plan coming together:

Here’s your synopsis, fool:

A group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime for which they were framed.

“The A-Team,” starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Jessica Biel, Patrick Wilson (and cameos from Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz) opens fire on June 11.