The Second Trailer for The Huntsman: Winter’s War Just Took It To a Whole New Level
In case you were ever-so-slightly worried that The Huntsman: Winter’s War would be a bit of an empty action flick (O YE OF LITTLE FAITH), the new trailer is here to assure you that Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, and Charlize Theron‘s impressive arsenals as actors will most definitely be on full display. When you’ve got such powerhouse performers, you have to give them complex material to go along with the epic costumes and magical effects (which both look just BONKERS BEAUTIFUL). And, in this new look at the movie, we see the absolutely devastating events that lead up to Emily going full Ice Queen. Not to mention, it sets up what looks like a pretty tense relationship between sisters (Ice and Evil Queens)—where the fighting goes beyond bratty words and straight into mythical warfare. Best limber up your eyeballs before they take on all this gorgeous, twisted trailer.
Emily Blunt is just going to SLAY this role, and our hearts, and probably a lot of ice sculptures. We are totally feeling her Frozen’s Elsa meets Narnian White Witch vibe, but her tragic backstory weirdly has us 100% routing for her. We were already tearing up from a five second look at her past; how are we possibly supposed to handle the actual movie? Looks like this follow-up film will continue the tradition that started in Snow White and the Huntsman of developing nuanced motivations of characters that could otherwise be one-dimensional villains.
Unfortunately, it seems like Ravenna IS a one-dimensional villain. We may have kinda sympathized with her in the last film, but after witnessing her turn her own sister’s baby into curlicues of smoke? WE OFFICIALLY RESCIND THAT SYMPATHY. Sorry Evil Queen, but even if you reveal your eyeliner secrets to us, we still won’t forgive you.
Can we talk about what a frickin’ feast for the eyes every square inch of this trailer is? Charlize and Jessica are just redefining #braidgoals for us. The costumes look like something out of our wildest, fairy tale dreams—romantic but SO EDGY that they could have been torn from the pages of Alexander McQueen’s sketchbook. And the effects make us wish MORE THAN EVER that we had magical powers, so we could shoot pretty gold doves and charming ice owls out of our fingertips.
This may be the only time that we haven’t gone into full-on swoon mode every time Chris Hemsworth’s handsome face graces the screen. Sure, we’re still like, HELLO SAILOR every time he throws an axe or says “Aye.” But honestly, we’re also kinda thinking, “Let’s get back to the gilded couture and the Oscar-worthy drama starring three of our fave actresses, please.”
Are you frantically searching the internet for how to master the braid bun? Has Chris Hemsworth become eye candy in a room full of award-winning actors?
