HOLLYWOOD - You know your movie trailer is playing a tough crowd when about 10 seconds into the trailer for "Love Guru," as Jessica Alba first appears on screen, someone shouts out: "Love interest!"

After the trailer is over, Gabriel Gutierrez, 15, grumbles about the film's stars: "Jessica Alba and Mike Myers -- she can't act, and he's not funny." To which Hannah Wood, 15, responds: "Like she's really there for her acting."

When teens congregate to talk about summer movies, it's impossible to predict what they'll say, except that it will surely be acerbic, funny and knowing. Raised on Perez Hilton, schooled by the satirists at the Onion, they are full of a finely honed skepticism for Hollywood's attempts to bedazzle kids into seeing the latest crop of big summer comedies and superhero films.

For eight years, I've shown the latest movie trailers to our Summer Movie Posse. This year's group of seven Los Angeles 14- and 15-year-olds belong to the true target audience for the annual deluge of special-effects extravaganzas that will dominate the multiplexes this summer.

These teens hate movies that try too hard to be about them. Take the documentary "American Teen."

"This is the kind of film where my mom is going to walk in my room and say, 'There's this film I want us to watch together and have a real serious talk about it afterwards,' because she wants to understand what I'm thinking," Hannah said, with a sigh. "And that's gonna be an awful experience."