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* The trailers for the movie ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'' made it out to be another wacky [[Will Ferrell]] comedy, when nearly all the humorous scenes were shown in the trailer. The tone of the movie was actually fairly serious.
* The trailers for the movie ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'' made it out to be another wacky [[Will Ferrell]] comedy, when nearly all the humorous scenes were shown in the trailer. The tone of the movie was actually fairly serious.
** Which isn't to say that it's not funny. It's hilarious, but relies more on smart humor then on the slap-stick Ferrell is known for. But the trailer uses music that isn't used in the movie, misrepresents ''many'' scenes that are more serious, and if you didn't know beforehand you'd swear that the trailer was hinting at a romance between Eiffel and Krick.
** Which isn't to say that it's not funny. It's hilarious, but relies more on smart humor then on the slap-stick Ferrell is known for. But the trailer uses music that isn't used in the movie, misrepresents ''many'' scenes that are more serious, and if you didn't know beforehand you'd swear that the trailer was hinting at a romance between Eiffel and Krick.
* In yet another example of a non-comedy starring a comedian marketed as a comedy, there's the 1994 [[Robin Williams]] film ''[[Film/Being Human|Being Human]]'' ([[Being Human|no relation]]). The trailer made it look like it was going to be another one of those "sweet-but-unlucky Robin" movies, and hey, the premise was the story of the same man through different periods of history, [[Blackadder|that makes for good comedy]]. But the movie was really a drama. And it was boring. And now it's more or less forgotten.
* In yet another example of a non-comedy starring a comedian marketed as a comedy, there's the 1994 [[Robin Williams]] film ''[[Film/Being Human|Being Human]]'' ([[Being Human (UK)|no relation]]). The trailer made it look like it was going to be another one of those "sweet-but-unlucky Robin" movies, and hey, the premise was the story of the same man through different periods of history, [[Blackadder|that makes for good comedy]]. But the movie was really a drama. And it was boring. And now it's more or less forgotten.
* You would be absolutely forgiven if you assumed, from the ads, that ''[[Burn After Reading]]'' was a wacky comedy starring [[Brad Pitt]] and [[George Clooney]].
* You would be absolutely forgiven if you assumed, from the ads, that ''[[Burn After Reading]]'' was a wacky comedy starring [[Brad Pitt]] and [[George Clooney]].
* George Miller's ''[[Happy Feet]]'' was advertised early on as a very Pixar-Dreamworksesque animation, with a very light tone. In fact, the film itself was anything but, instead opting for an approach not at all dissimilar to ''[[Watership Down]]'' or [[Don Bluth]]'s early eighties work, and most of the scenes used in the trailer were either from the first half hour or never appeared in the film, to begin with.
* George Miller's ''[[Happy Feet]]'' was advertised early on as a very Pixar-Dreamworksesque animation, with a very light tone. In fact, the film itself was anything but, instead opting for an approach not at all dissimilar to ''[[Watership Down]]'' or [[Don Bluth]]'s early eighties work, and most of the scenes used in the trailer were either from the first half hour or never appeared in the film, to begin with.
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