This isn’t particularly timely — since the trailer was released about a year ago and the movie doesn’t come out ’till Christmas — but just I can’t hold it in: the Valkyrie trailer is hilarious. I’m serious, I know Tom Cruise’s historical thriller about the real-life assassination plot that some of Hitler’s own officers staged against him is supposed to be an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride, but trust me, this trailer is comic gold. Here’s a breakdown.

00:34: Interesting. In a movie full of Nazis, every actor is obeying the “Continental Europeans in American movies all have British accents” rule EXCEPT for Tom Cruise, who not only refuses to feign even a vague Mid-Atlantic effect, but is in full-on, super Midwestern, slightly congested signature style. Classic.

00:57: The premise for the plot is presented with such bombastic zeal that it sounds like preposterous revisionist fiction, (the fact that Cruise is prone to revising facts and involving Nazis only helps to give this impression), or a Family Guy spoof trailer — except this actually happened. You’d never know.

1:34: Eddie Izzard’s wonderfully familiar voice creeps in before his face is revealed at the 1:36 mark, and while you might otherwise miss him disguised in those horn-rimmed glasses, back it up and rewatch him deliver that histrionic line again. If you’ve ever seen Izzard’s stand-up, or even his work on the Riches, you’ll probably know him well enough to notice how he speaks this line with such delightfully sanctimonious boredom, you know he was phoning it in while he was half cracking a smile, trying not to laugh at all those overcooked hams in the room.

2:20: Ah yes, Tom puts the cherry on this keeper by shooting us in the face with a kick-ass action-star one-liner, proving unequivocally that no matter how hard he tries to convince us that he’s committed to a gritty, self-serious wartime historical drama, in his heart of hearts, he’s always playing Maverick Mitchell.