Super Bowl 2020: Ranking the New Trailers

People are going to see Black Widow, regardless of what happened in the Super Bowl spot. Both Marvel and Disney knew that. As a result, this Black Widow ad is probably the weakest of the film so far, and certainly the least exciting of the group of trailers/spots we saw during the game.

Its great to see ScarJo portraying Black Widow again, and the new cast of stars continue to excite fans around the world. But this TV spot just didnt do anything new.

The entire Despicable Me franchise has been pretty fun to this point, and the first look at the Minions sequel gets a major bonus for showing us a tiny little Gru. It was seriously adorable and the rest of the ad was just as fun as youd expect it to be. That said, it was teaser for a trailer, not an ad for the movie itself, so it doesnt get much love in these rankings.

The spot ended with the reveal that the full trailer for Minions: The Rise of Grue is coming out on Wednesday, and that trailer will likely be wonderful. But weve still got a couple of days to wait for that.

Mulan is either going to be the best of Disneys modern remakes by a VERY wide margin, or the House of Mouse has some truly incredible trailer editors. Going heavy on the action aspects of the original Mulan was the right call with this new version and it has the potential to be a fantastic war epic.

The TV spot that aired during the Super Bowl was okay, but it led folks to the full trailer online, and that was a much bigger spectacle. 

If you havent been able to tell by the multiple trailers so far, Hunters is going to be a FANTASTIC show. Seriously, a show about Nazi hunters starring Al Pacino and executive produced by Jordan Peele sells itself. Trailers probably arent even necessary, but that hasnt stopped Amazon from bringing the heat with each and every Hunters ad.

The only real knock against this Hunters spot is that it was released online a few days before the Super Bowl aired. That didnt stop it from wowing us during the game, though.

The spot for Top Gun: Maverick arrived just before the game started and it started the wave of new movie ads off on the right foot. 

We got teases of the story in this spot, but 30 seconds is never enough time to really reveal anything major about the plot. Fortunately, the most exciting aspect of Top Gun: Maverick is the ultra-realistic flight sequences from director Joseph Kosinski.

This spot made it very clear that hearts will be racing when Maverick hits theaters and we seriously cant wait.

There was no way the Super Bowl spot for Fast & Furious 9 was going to top the nearly four minute trailer that was released on Friday, but this new F9 spot did enough to keep expectations high. 

While the trailer had the bonus of ending with the reveal of Hans return, the TV spot was incredibly well-edited and perfectly paced. It wouldve been even more excited had it not arrived just two days after the debut of the full-length ad.

You would think that the 25th movie starring the same lead character would be boring, especially if the 24th movie was as forgettable as Spectre. But No Time to Die, Daniel Craigs fifth and final outing as the iconic James Bond, looks to be one of the most exciting entries in the franchise.

The first trailer and teaser for No Time to Die made it seem as though all of the behind-the-scenes issues the production was plagued with were total flukes, and that the movie would be okay regardless. Sundays Super Bowl TV spot doubled down on that notion. No Time to Die is shaping up to be a fantastic outing for Craigs Bond, and this 30-second spot gave us all the proof we needed.

April needs to hurry up.

Marvel and Disney saved the best ad for the end of the game. In the fourth quarter, the Disney+ streaming service released a trailer that featured footage from its first three live-action Marvel Studios TV projects, and the 30-second spot was enough to melt down an entire fandom.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, the first of the shows that will arrive on Disney+ this year, showed Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson in their team-up adventure, as well as the first look at Wyatt Russells US Agent. WandaVision, also being released in 2020, delivered on the promise of being a classic sitcom-turned-Marvel trip. At the end of the spot, we got a brief glimpse of Tom Hiddlestons Loki in his solo TV series.

For fans wondering whats next for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney+ is it, and this spot succeeded in turning the hype up to 11.