'The Expendables 2' Teaser Trailer: Just One Big Testosterone Roster

Here's a pretty rote teaser trailer for Affliction: The Motion Picture... er, The Expendables 2, which puts Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham back at the forefront of an action extravaganza that also stars Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Liam Hemsworth, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Check it out below if you want to see all those faces for a second or two each.

Simon West directs this time out, from a script written by Stallone, David Agosto, Ken Kaufman and Richard Wenk.

Sylvester Stallone co-wrote and directed the first film, and it really didn't turn out to be a particularly good use of all the action names Stallone roped into the project. It is impossible to tell whether this sequel will do the trick, because this teaser trailer is just one long talent roster. But keep your hopes alive, I suppose.

Apple has the HD trailer. The Expendables 2 will be released on August 17, 2012.

The Expendables are back and this time it's personal... Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Lee Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard — are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time — six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that's nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way....