Smosh: The Movie Trailer: They Remade Stay Tuned for the YouTube Generation

If you’ve never heard of Smosh, you’re too old. Smosh is a YouTube channel and comedy duo founded by Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla. They’ve been one of the most popular internet stars of the past decade. And so Smosh: The Movie is going to be huge. On VOD, especially via YouTube, because nobody needs to see these guys on the big screen.

If you’re too old to be familiar with Smosh, perhaps you’re old enough to recall Stay Tuned, a 1992 comedy starring John Ritter and Pam Dawber as a couple sucked into their TV set, interacting with parodies of shows and channels, including Ritter’s own Three’s Company. Maybe you don’t remember it, because it wasn’t a hit. At least not in theaters.

Smosh: The Movie looks like a remake of Stay Tuned but YouTube channels and shows are featured in place of television. There are sure to be parodies of the more universally known viral videos involving cats and such, but the movie also appears to showcase other real popular YouTube stars, including Jenna Marbles, who you can see in the trailer above.

I guess if we are to correlate the two movies further, that makes Michael Ian Black kind of the new Jeffrey Jones. Or he’s the new Chevy Chase in Hot Tub Time Machine, which is another movie Smosh might remind you of. There’s also an obvious Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure vibe, which makes sense given this is directed by Bill himself, Alex Winter.

As someone who isn’t very familiar with Smosh or any YouTube stars, I’m still curious simply because of Winter. Not only has he directed very strange comedies (Freaked), but lately he’s been making essential nonfiction films concerning the internet, specifically the Napster doc Downloaded and the new doc on hidden parts of the web, Deep Web.

Smosh: The Movie hits theaters on July 24th.

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