Watch Anne Hath­away con­trol a Kai­ju in the Colos­sal trailer

It’s still only Jan­u­ary, but we’ve already got a glimpse of what could well be the weird­est film of 2017. The first trail­er for Colos­sal shows Anne Hath­away dis­cov­er­ing that she is some­how able to con­trol the move­ments of an amphibi­ous Kai­ju-like crea­ture that’s ter­ror­is­ing Seoul.

Direct­ed by Span­ish film­mak­er Nacho Viga­lan­do, the film is being billed as a self-aware, dark­ly com­ic take on the well-trod­den mon­ster-inva­sion genre. Hath­away plays Glo­ria, a reck­less, self-loathing drunk who is forced to return home to New Jer­sey after being chucked out by her boyfriend. Wast­ing her time booz­ing with an old high-school friend (Jason Sudeikis), Glo­ria soon comes to realise that her ine­bri­at­ed antics are being enact­ed on a ter­ri­fy­ing scale by a giant mon­ster on the oth­er side of the world.

But the film isn’t all glee­ful absur­di­ty. It’s not a spoil­er to note that the ram­pag­ing beast serves as a metaphor for the destruc­tive nature of Gloria’s alco­holism. Judg­ing by the tone of the trail­er though, there’s no need to fear any heavy-hand­ed moral­is­ing. As far as we can tell, Hath­away appears to rel­ish play­ing a goofy screw-up, and with the recent news that she’s set to join the case of a Dirty Rot­ten Scoundrels remake, expect to see a lot more of the actor flex­ing her comedic muscles.

Colos­sal hits US screens on 7 April, and while there’s cur­rent­ly no UK release date, you can whet your appetite by read­ing our favourable first-look review in which we call the film an ​“orig­i­nal, bewil­der­ing and brazen rock ​’em sock ​’em com­e­dy.” We’ve not had a decent one of those for a long while.

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