Let’s get right to the good stuff, people: The trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film, Inherent Vice, has finally dropped. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the gummed-up gumshoe at the center of this adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s psychedelic detective story, and there’s a vast array of actors circling him in fab late-’60s garb, including Reese Witherspoon, Benicio Del Toro, and Owen Wilson. This looks to be the loosest, funniest film Anderson has made in quite some time (after the dramatic double-deckers of There Will Be Blood and The Master), and the director himself has cited the joke-filled spoofs of the Zucker brothers as inspiration. How does that comic sensibility mesh with Anderson’s? By the time you’ve watched ten seconds of Josh Brolin barking in a foreign language, you’ll know. Enjoy!
