The Street Fighter movie gets a new trailer and everything looks deliciously stupid

The new Street Fighter movie keeps confusing and winning over audiences in equal measure. And the new trailer isn’t going to change that. By showing us all the characters in their iconic outfits, dialing up the absurdity, they seem to have wanted to show us what we can expect from this movie: a much stupider and more hilarious reimagining of the film.

This is causing an obvious divide on social media. While some viewers feel it fits perfectly with the tone of the video games, full of absurd characters and powers, others think it goes against its spirit, much darker and more dramatic despite how colorful it is. With more comparisons to the indefensible Chun-Li movie from the 2000s than to the charming Street Fighter movie from the ’90s.

A movie just around the corner

Which makes it hard to predict how it’ll do at the box office when it premieres on October 16. But given that this means we’ll be able to see it in just a month and a half, it’s not like we’ll have to wait long to find out.