What do you say, everyone… should we bother to get excited about the second big-budget Dan Brown adaptation? After watching the trailer for Angels & Demons, the follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, I’m inclined to.

The Da Vinci Code was heart-breakingly underwhelming. Here was a book which was, we believe, literally written with the intention of being an awesome movie. Ancient religious cover-ups, a murderous albino monk (for Christ’s sake!), a high-octane race to some of the world’s coolest places, and opening with that murder in the Lourve? It’s shocking that the movie was so lame. Inconceivable.

Trailers can be deceiving, but Angels & Demons does look like a step up. What do you all think?

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Apparently, the Vatican plans on banning the film. That wins it at least a few points from our camp! By taking the premise serious enough to even acknowledge, isn’t the church doing itself unwarranted damage?

Angels & Demons hits theaters on May 15th.