Drew- How can you say you don’t know how you feel about this clip? It is insulting! After the movie’s failed box office performance, the studio’s publicity department has stooped to the level of merely making fun of birders in a desperate attempt to sells DVDs. I have not seen the film because I was unwilling to support this type of humor. I am deeply disgusted by the clip and I urge you to both remove it from your site, as well as to denounce the film itself, in order to save the respectability of your otherwise outstanding blog.

While I enjoyed the clip as an independent bit of fun, I thinkthis it is potentially misleading in the same way that a lot of theadvertisements for The Big Year were misleading. Basically, The Big Year is asorta heart-warming tale about a couple guys finding contentment, and one guylosing it. Incidentally, it involved birding, but there wasn’t a lot of birdinghumor in the movie, and taking birding out of the movie and replacing it withsome other pastime wouldn’t have required much change to the plot line. It waspacked to be a rock n’ roll comedy with Owen Wilson, Steve Martin and JackBlack, and I think a lot of people were expecting deliberate hilarity morealong the lines of that SNL special a while back where Steve Carrell goes to abirding festival.A lot of people came in expecting the movie to be lots of fun. Itturned out to just be nice and pleasant, which left most of the non-birdersdisappointed. Here this goofy clip is trying to brand it again as an out-n-outcomedy, instead of the feel-good story it really is. I enjoyed both of them,but I think The Big Year is stuck between two genres. Of course, birders haveto, err hem, flock together, and I support the Big Year undertaking. However, I think Aggravated Birder is right that this is rather base advertising, and is not really helpful.