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The full trailer for The Social Network is out, and bloggers and microcelebs love it. (Check! Their blurbs! Below!)

I doubted that this would be an exciting movie. I read the screenplay, and the movie about Mark Zuckerberg's invention of Facebook is only about the early days of the site and a few depositions from a lawsuit. I was disappointed that the story didn't include a look at Facebook's current glory, just little hints.

But this trailer makes Aaron Sorkin and David Fincher's film (starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake oh god how can you not watch it) look much more exciting.

Of course, that's what trailers do. The film critic Gene Siskel ran out of the theater when the trailers came on, because he knew they reveal all the best parts of the movie. So go ahead and have The Social Network ruined for you. I still don't know if the whole thing will be nearly as fun as this preview implies.


A far more ominous, dramatic piece than I think anyone expected. – Slashfilm

Reveals a possible Oscar contender. – Cinematical


TOP MARKS. – Videogum


Decent! – Rex Sorgatz, internet person


Actually important. – Gavin Purcell, 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' producer

Breathtaking! – The New York Times' Brian Stelter


Pretty brilliant. – Mashable


Might bring down a huge portion of Facebook's user base. – Village Voice


It's just a trailer. – Me


Gawker's Richard Lawson explains the problem:
If the movie was a Traffic-esque series of interconnected stories about how people live and love and die on social networks like Facebook, then maybe all this pathos would fit. But the story of some sniveling Harvard nerd warring with other sniveling Harvard nerds over a computer program? Feh."

AOL blog Switched agrees:
We're also obligated to see this mythologized biopic when it finally hits the theaters, no matter how bored by Facebook we've become, or how hard Fincher tries to make a business's successes and foibles more interesting than the pages of Crain's.