Our Idiot Brother trailer debuts

The first trailer for Paul Rudd’s new comedy Our Idiot Brother has just gone online.

Rudd plays the titular idiot, a scruffy-haired, impressively bearded dummy who gets himself into daft situations – like selling drugs to police officers. Oh, and he has a dog called Willie Nelson.

Providing what looks like very able support is a treasure trove of co-stars, including Steve Coogan, Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel, Emily Mortimer and Rashida Jones.

Check out the trailer below...

Though nothing in the trailer exactly screams laugh-til-you-wee-yourself, we’re hoping that’s because most of the juicy stuff is being saved for the film itself.

That said, Rudd looks typically on form in a rare lead role – think Jeff Bridge’s The Dude... only a whole lot stupider.

Our Idiot Brother opens in the US on 26 August. It’s yet to receive a UK release date.

Josh Winning has worn a lot of hats over the years. Contributing Editor at Total Film, writer for SFX, and senior film writer at the Radio Times. Josh has also penned a novel about mysteries and monsters, is the co-host of a movie podcast, and has a library of pretty phenomenal stories from visiting some of the biggest TV and film sets in the world. He would also like you to know that he "lives for cat videos..." Don't we all, Josh. Don't we all.