Just like Terry Crews so enthusiastically promised in yesterday's preview of a preview, the full theatrical trailer for The Expendables 2 has made its ostentatious online debut. 

As you'd expect, the sequel to 2010's The Expendables looks like a quiet drama focused on subtle, telling interactions between complex, nuanced characters in a world not of their own making. 

2010's The Expendables had just as much over-the-top violence and expletive-filled language that you'd expect from a movie so masculine that the film itself reeked like a locker room.  Everyone waiting for an equal or greater amount of f-bombs, bone-snaps, decapitations, and arterial spurts from this summer's The Expendables 2 had their hopes dashed earlier this year when word bubbled out that the sequel would be PG-13. But now Sylvester Stallone has apparently issued a contradictory statement that The Expendables 2 will indeed carry a rating that starts with an "R" and ends with "estricted."

Two new images from this summer's hetero-testosterone-fest The Expendables 2 have made their way online, and both should inspire some feelings of emasculation.  Both images include Chinese actress Yu Nan, a new addition to the Expendables crew who no doubt shoots, eviscerates, decapitates, and generally harms bad guys just as well as her Y-chromosomal cohorts.  That Nan could no doubt beat most of the audience silly isn't the principal reason for emasculation, though.  It's Sylvester Stallone's forearms.  Sly is now 64 years old (he'll be 65 by the time the sequel hits theaters), and his huge, veiny arms would be crazy on someone half his age. 

On Wednesday, we saw the very first teaser trailer for The Expendables 2, an introspective arthouse drama focused on a group of professional men grappling with their own mortality.  Just in time for the weekend, Lionsgate has released a new teaser poster to go with that.  You may remember an alleged teaser poster making the rounds a few weeks back, with everyone in the cast holding a big gun, but Lionsgate immediately and officially disavowed all knowledge of that one, saying they didn't know where it cam from.  This, though, is the uncut dope, straight from the source.  Unlike the trailer, which was a procession of names and teeny tiny snippets of action, this poster focuses on one clean image and one even simpler message, one that has something to do with the number two.  Still trying to figure it out.

Did you know that The Expendables 2 is on the way next summer?  Did you know that Sylvester Stallone will again be joined by a cadre of muscular action stars wielding guns of various sizes and probably kicking, punching, and stabbing many, many nameless henchmen?  Since you might be unaware of these facts, Lionsgate has released the very first teaser trailer for The Expendables 2, which helpfully introduces all the dudes who will be shooting, kicking, punching, and stabbing.  That's pretty much all it does though, sidestepping plot and all that jibba jabba* to supply a single name and image for Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, septuagenarian Chuck Norris, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Liam Hemsworth, Jean Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Production on The Expendables 2 is going on right now in Bulgaria, and you'd imagine that the cast, with their combined action movie resumes reaching roughly to the moon and back, would be wrasslin', throwing knives, and setting up bear traps.  Based on all these new photos from the set, though, the ensemble cast of the action sequel spend most of their time smiling and taking pictures.  A whole bunch of new images show Sylvester Stallone, Jean Claude Van Damme, Terry Crews, Chuck Norris, Randy Couture, Bruce Willis, and Dolph Lundgren doing just that.  Based on these image, I'm inclined to believe that in a no holds-barred survival match between all these actors, Terry Crews would be the last man standing.

Much of marketing for Sylvester Stallone's hyper-macho 2010 actioner The Expendables included the promise of the erstwhile Rocky and Rambo sharing the silver screen with his fellow top-tier 1980's action icons, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, best known to action aficionados as The Terminator and John McClane, respectively.  In the film, however, the trio shared just one dialogue scene that relied heavily on winking to the audience at the novelty of these three together at last.  Last month, Willis and Schwarzenegger were confirmed for The Expendables 2, and, perhaps sensing the sensing the collective sigh of indifference at their first cameos, the sequel promised more "substantial" roles for both actors.

The Expendables 2 is now in production in Bulgaria, from whence former California Governor and world class philanderer Schwarzenegger took the opportunity to tweet a photo of himself, Stallone, and Willis.  Stallone is definitely in costume as Barney Ross, while Willis and Arnold seem to be rocking their looks at Church and Trench whilst hanging out on an airfield.

Based on 2010's The Expendables, the sequel set for next summer will certainly contain a number of elements, such as plentiful automatic weapons fire, inflated biceps, berets, blood-splatter, and an ensemble of actors oozing testosterone all over the place.  The big question so far has been just who will join Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, and the rest of the gang in The Expendables 2.  Last week, we learned that Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger will have more substantial roles than their meager appearances in the first film, and also that Jean Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris might just high-kick along with them.  Today, we have confirmation of Van Damme and Norris, as well as word that Nicolas Cage and John Travolta are still potential new recruits.

In 2010's testosterone-soaked actioner The Expendables, writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone took his ensemble concept to its natural conclusion by including a scene between himself and the other two titans of 80's and 90's action: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis.  Unfortunately for fans of head-stomping, ass-kicking, and gun-firing, said scene was brief and consisted entirely of dialogue.  With The Expendables 2 casting up, it looks as though Stallone has finally accomplished a seemingly impossible goal, as the erstwhile California governor and ongoing Die Hard star are confirmed for "substantial" roles in the sequel.

Right now, the ensemble team-up movie of the summer of 2012 that seems to be getting all the attention is Marvel's The Avengers, but that film will surely contain far, far fewer instances of brutal violence and swaggering He-Man testosterone than The Expendables 2.  Since the appeal of the first The Expendables was in seeing Sylvester Stallone lead a group of hyper-masculine, more age-advanced action heroes into battle, there's been no shortage of conjecture about which familiar cinematic ass-kickers would join the party.  Two names have been added to the mix, and if they're actually signed on, then The Expendables 2 will take the 80's action trappings of the first film to a whole new level.  That's right, Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme may very be high-kicking some skulls in the sequel.