The Expendables was basically gun porn drenched in bro sauce, a noisy, abrasive filmification of a dude named Sully punching you in the stomach while blasting Pantera. The Expendables 2? Yes, oh yes, more of the same. The one-minute trailer, released today, shows all of the stars from the first film and more shooting stuff to pieces, holding guns, looking dead serious in some seriously unflattering lighting.

Is this the start of a Jean-Claude Van Damme comeback?

The other day, New York's "Daily Intelligencer" asked, "Does 2008's Best Movie Star Van Damme?" Well no, no it doesn't, although the man who played "Gay Karate Man" in 1984's seminal film Monaco Forever does seem to be pulling out all the acting chop stops in J.C.V.D. After the jump, five histrionic clowns who somehow managed to pull off their best Jean-Claude Van Damns.