I see a lot of movies, and with those, a lot of trailers. Particularly in the summer and around the holidays, it's not unusual for me to see the same trailer 15 or 20 times. If it's a trailer I can't stand . . . the Family Man trailer, for example, or this new Pearl Harbor trailer I see every weekend, this can get to be near agonizing.

What's very rare is when I see a trailer that I like so much I actually look forward to it. This happened with the trailer for Double Take. Since they started promoting it a few months ago, I've seen the trailer at least a dozen times, and every time I've laughed. The highlight is when Orlando Jones, playing a stock broker pretending to be an ignorant street punk from the 'hood, orders Schlitz Malt Liquor in an Amtrak dining car. Told by the waiter that they don't have Schlitz Malt Liquor, he exclaims: "No Schlitz malt liquor?? No Schlitz malt liquor!? How you gonna run a sussessful bidness and you ain't got Schlitz malt liquor? You ain't representin'! You ain't keepin' it re-ah!"

Man, how I laughed. If you haven't seen the trailer, you're probably wondering what's so damn funny about that. Now, after having seen the shoddy, garbled and unfunny film that that terrific trailer was extracted from, I can't really remember what was so damn funny about that myself.

Double Take is the tale of a banker, Daryl Chase (Orlando Jones), who discovers some suspicious activity from one of his clients, a Mexican cola manufacturer. Next thing you know, guys are coming after him with guns, and he ends up enlisting the help of apparent street hustler Freddy Tiffany (Eddie Griffin). The two men swap identities, sort of, and hop on a train bound for Mexico.

Meanwhile there are CIA agents and FBI agents and cops and border patrol and drug dealers and Federales . . . no one is what they seem, and by the end of the movie, I still wasn't too sure who anyone was. I gave up trying to untangle the plot and just figured that if they're dead or being hauled off to jail they're a bad guy, and everyone else is good guys.

Writer/director George Gallo is the man responsible . . . he wrote the wonderful Midnight Run, but other than some basic road-trip/buddy/action-comedy elements, the two films could be from different planets in terms of quality (the first film from planet Comedius, and this film from planet Crappius?)

Anyway, there are hardly any laughs. In the context of the genre, Double Take is no Blue Streak, or even a Rush Hour. If they release the trailer on video, check that out. Otherwise, stay away.