These days, it seems like most of the musicals that Hollywood makes are designed as Oscar bait, made with an eye to raking in Academy Awards in various technical categories if nothing else. So it’s kind of odd watching the trailer for Nine, which boasts a cast as prestigious as any musical ever produced (that’s six Oscar winners in the cast, for those playing along at home), and realizing how little it trumpets its pedigree. If nothing else, I admire this spot for not trying to cover up the fact that it’s a musical, with lots of dancing on display and Fergie belting out a song in the background. Still, the Rob Marshall factor gives me pause. Chicago was a good-looking (and good-sounding) movie, but the jackhammer editing became oppressive long before the end, and the whole enterprise felt fairly impersonal to me, like a reverse-engineered machine designed to rack up awards. But I’m holding out judgment on this project for now, at least until the first full-length trailer, in which one hopes we’ll finally hear Daniel Day-Lewis singing.