I honestly feel like this could be the best movie of the Summer of 2016.

I was already sold on Shane Black’s return to filmmaking with the red band trailer when it was released last December, but now that Warner Bros has released a more general, green-band trailer, I’m feeling even more confident that The Nice Guys is the pseudo-sequel to Kiss Kiss Bang Bang we wanted ever since the credits rolled for that film.

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I’m really loving how wimpy Ryan Gossling’s character is here, and I can’t recall the last time that I was so damned excited to see Russell Crowe in a movie - he seems the perfect curmudgeonly foil to Gossling’s character.

We’re missing the standard Shane Black Christmas setting, but good news - although not mentioned in this all-audiences trailer - the movie apparently revolves around the 1970’s porn industry, so we’ll get all the naughty goodness we expect from a film written and directed by the Lethal Weapon author.

The Nice Guys hits theaters on May 20, 2016. I’m there for screening #1.