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This feels like a parody trailer for "dark and gritty re-imaginings" that we saw a few years ago.
But it's not a parody.
This is really the tone of the movie they're going for.

This is a game series about giant furries smashing buildings, eating people, and farting.

Do they realise they're making an edgy-dark movie about a game where the climax takes place on the fucking moon? If they opted for the route of Rampage: Total Destruction (where the beasts come from test-tasters of a rather toxic "soda" brand), it would work a lot better.

Just got done with the trailer and honestly I'd be less cringed if they had made a Battle Toads movie. My brother watched it and thought it was Kong. I watched it and thought it was a Planet of the Apes wanna be. Honestly the source isn't even relevant any more. At first I saw the title and thought it was going to be a spin off of the 2009 movie (a shoot 'em up moive). I bet the 2009 movie will have the better rotten tomatoes score. xD

So… I uhh… I want to be angry right now, but since this is just a trailer, I wait till the official movie comes out. However, I will be slightly annoyed and what they did to change the story of the games and made..this.

First out, before the Wii, I had a PS2 which I played like hell as a kid. One of the games that I commonly played, including which I found to be a guilty pleasure was Rampage: Total Destruction. Plot was about a soda that could turn people into monsters which was sorta the basis of the whole Rampage series, which originated as an arcade game.

While there was supposed to be a Kinect revival of the game, everyone pretty much knew by that point, the Kinect sucked. There would word of development of the movie, which I didn't bat an eye at, because the movie was originally slated for 2013 or 2014, meaning that the movie was in a development hell and I figured the movie wouldn't happened.

Then, I saw this. As someone who played the games, I can say that the tone shown in the trailers is way different that the video games, as the games were more comedic than edgy. Seeing how Dwayne was shown in a trailer of Jumanji 2 (Jesus Christ, why make a sequel or revival on that?), there might be some star power in it, though everyone is waiting till the movie officially comes out.

Trailer didn't looked as bad as I expected it to be, but I can understand your concerns about the tone change.

I played Rampage a lot as a kid, and this movie isn't going to do it justice. Call it hasty, but a trailer is all I need to see that it won't be what we wanted.