Despite getting mixed reviews at Cannes, Steven Spielberg’s The BFG is still one of the most anticipated films of the summer.  I have to admit that, for the longest time, I assumed that the title was an acronym for Big F*cking German but no, apparently BFG stands for Big Friendly Giant.

And the just released second trailer for the film features a good deal of the Big Friendly Giant!  The Big Friendly Giant is played by Mark Rylance.  Mark Rylance is a good actor but I still think Sylvester Stallone should have won that Oscar.

Anyway, here’s the trailer!  I always want to be skeptical of Spielberg because he’s such a mainstream filmmaker and my natural tendency is always to embrace outsiders.  But dammit, The BFG looks like it might, at the very least, be a very enjoyable and very big film.

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* It’s family film, hence the asterisk.