Trailers Weekly is a feature in which we bring you the most popular and talked about trailers of the week. Sharing trailers is a classic viral practice, and trailers are still the most mainstream way for people to learn about movies. This week we have trailers for Anchorman 2, The Lone Ranger, The World’s End, Don Jon, and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.

Anchorman 2
The sequel to Adam McKay‘s news anchor comedy hits theaters on December 20. But we are still getting hit with teasers featuring the news team quipping outrageous catchphrases and demeaning remarks. And as awkward as that is, it’s a lot of fun to watch. Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner, all return to reprise their respective roles.

The Lone Ranger
Johnny Depp teams up again with Pirates of the Caribbean and Rango director Gore Verbinski for this adaptation of a western classic. But Depp is taking the role of a sidekick, Tonto, while Armie Hammer takes the lead titular role. The Lone Ranger opens in theaters on July 3.

The World’s End
Edgar Wright‘s final installment of the Blood and Ice Cream trilogy will probably end up being the most hilarious and visual effects heavy of the entire trilogy. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost band together with some old friends for one last bar crawl in attempts to make it to the elusive The World’s End. The only thing in their way is the robots posing as humans that have taken over their hometown. Rosamund Pike also stars. The World’s End opens in theaters on August 23.

Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt‘s Sundance hit will finally make its way into theaters on October 18. Thought I haven’t seen the movie, word on the street is that most of what you will see in this trailer are the best parts of the film. But selling a movie based on porn addiction is a tough sell for anyone, so it’s understandable why it may be marketed this way. Scarlett Johannson and Tony Danza also star.

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Another film that is making waves that made is debut at Sundance, is David Lowery’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, starring Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck. The film centers on the lives of an outlaw (Affleck), his wife (Mara), and the Sheriff (Ben Foster) who is looking to take them down. The film opens in limited release on August 16.

What did you think of this week’s trailers? Which was your favorite? Do you agree with the Internet buzz? Of course, every week there are a lot more trailers, teasers, TV spots, and clips that we can’t cover, so go to TrailerAddict.com to see your favorites. You can also download trailers in HD at Apple.com, or the new iTunes Movie Trailers App on your iPhone or iPad.

Briefly: In the vein of other endless running games like Temple Run, Warner Bros. has released Metropolis Mayhem, an online game on the Man of Steel homepage. Fly Superman through Metropolis and earn points by collecting the power-ups. Use your heat vision to destroy any obstacles that you cannot avoid. Try it for yourself and let us know your high score in the comments section. Follow all of our coverage at our Man of Steel Hub. Thanks to Hero Complex for the heads up.

This third and final entry in the Hangover franchise tries to veer outside of the familiar formula set forth by the first and second films, but in doing so, it deviates from the raucous nature that made the earlier efforts so appealing. Check out our full review after the break.

This time around the focus is more on Alan (Zach Galifianakis) as his increasingly erratic behavior and his refusal to take his meds has led his family and friends to orchestrate an intervention. Phil (Bradley Cooper,) Stu (Ed Helms) and Doug (Justin Bartha) agree to drive Alan to a treatment center, but like most of the plans made by the “Wolfpack,” something goes terribly wrong. Before they can even make it to their destination, their vehicle is driven off the road by pig-masked thugs and the four are taken to a mobster by the name of Marshall (John Goodman.) He holds their buddy Doug for ransom with plans to kill him unless the rest of the “Wolfpack” can find their old cohort Mr. Chow (Ken Jeong) and deliver him to Marshall alive.

The second film in the franchise was roundly criticized for being too close in structure to the first. The Hangover Part III tries to be something different. It’s more of a conventional action caper  than an over-the-top comedy, but this works to its own detriment. Much of the blame lies in the story focusing more on Alan and less on the rest of the “Wolfpack.” Cooper and Helm’s characters take a backseat to much of the antics of Galifianakis’ Alan which hurts the picture immensely. There’s not enough there to sustain a whole movie based on Alan’s weird remarks and odd behavior. Even Mr. Chow seems subdued compared to his participation in the earlier films.

Personally, I miss the ridiculous moments that are usually associated with a “Hangover” movie. Killing giraffes and chickens don’t count. This film has so many missed opportunities, when it comes to adding some true craziness to the proceedings. In the film they take a trip to Tijuana, which could have been a perfect breeding ground for comedic ideas, but other than breaking into a mansion, nothing outrageous happens. Even a cocaine and hooker party at Chow’s Caesars Palace suite in Vegas comes off looking pretty tame compared to the bizarre and demented event it deserves to be. The film is rife with such comedic disappointment.

On the other hand, director and co-writer Todd Phillips does a good job of tying all the films together with Part 3. We find that one simple action by Alan in the first film led to the events of this film. There are cameos by previous characters such  as Stu’s ex-wife Jade (Heather Graham,) her kid (who was a baby in the first one) and “Black Doug” (Omar Epps.) There’s also a few funny lines that mention their previous adventures, especially when Phil makes a veiled reference to Stu’s Bangkok sexual escapade from the second outing. Unfortunately, these elements serve as reminders of how much fun the first two films were as opposed to the uneven mess of this one.

Sadly, the funniest bit in the whole new movie takes place in a quick scene that happens about a minute or two into the credits. A scene that apes the initial shocking revelations of the previous two efforts. That small part is a better third Hangover movie than the rest of this half-hearted, sober attempt to make the last film in the franchise something new.

The Hangover Part III is playing at a theater near you.

Wish You Were Here is a suspense drama about a tropical vacation gone wrong. The film opens in limited theaters on June 7th, but we have an exclusive clip for you after the break. In it, Dave Flannery (Joel Edgerton) and his wife Alice (Felicity Price) have a heated argument.

Four friends indulge in a carefree Cambodian holiday, but their sun-soaked retreat quickly takes a horrific turn when one of the travelers disappears. As the search ensues, the others return home, racked with guilt and struggling to return to their daily lives. Does one of them hold the answer to the fate of their lost companion? Tightly-held secrets from their life-altering trip are brought to light, revealing clues to the whereabouts of their missing friend.

Starring: Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price, and Antony Starr
Written by: Kieran Darcy-Smith and Felicity Price
Directed by: Kieran Darcy-Smith

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Kal-el wasn’t born on Earth. He came from the distant alien world of Krypton. When a child of Krypton is born, they are tied directly to the legacy of their Ancestral House. That legacy is defined by certain traits and characteristics instilled into each child. Now you too can discover your Kryptonian birthright with a new Man of Steel app! Get the details after the break.

Being a child of Krypton doesn’t sound easy, but at least discovering your house and Kryptonian namesake is made easier by the new Glyph Creator. After answering a series of questions you will be assigned a house which comes with it’s own Glyph. That Glyph can then be applied to any of your many social apps to display your Kryptonian heritage with great pride as you await the forthcoming battle between Kal-el and General Zod, which is less than a month away.

Man of Steel opens theatrically June 14, 2013.

Yesterday, the Man of Steel homepage had another transmission when you first get to the site. We expected it to lead to a new trailer, and we were right (though sooner than expected). Watch the “Fate of Your Planet” trailer after the break.

If you want to go a bit more in-depth into the trailer, check out this Imgur album of screenshots. The trailer utilizes some of the viral elements we’ve been covering, including the transmission of Zod calling out Kal-El. There seems to even be a few callbacks to the prequel comic.

Man of Steel flies into theaters on June 14th.

Briefly: Last month, the Man of Steel viral campaign got a jolt in the form of a transmission from Zod to Superman. In a similar fashion, the Man of Steel homepage has another transmission when you first enter the site. We have the same static noise, but with “You Are Not Alone” flashing word-by-word and in different languages. Given that there will supposedly be a new trailer in front of Fast and Furious 6, and that every other viral event has lead to a trailer, I think we all know where this is going. Once the trailer goes up or something else happens, we’ll let you know. Thanks to the Man of Steel fan page for the heads up.

Warner Bros.’ Superman reboot Man of Steel is less than a month away, and much of the plot is still a mystery. Fortunately, DC has made available to Walmart advance ticket holders a prequel comic that gives a bit of insight to the film. For those who didn’t buy their special Walmart tickets, you can read the entire comic here. After the break, we’ll give a (spoilerish) review of the comic and how it might play into the movie itself.

The prequel comic is book-ended by Superman’s trip to Earth as a baby and his time on a commercial fishing boat, but the real star is Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El (aka Supergirl). Taking place before the destruction of Krypton, we first meet Kara in a training exercise gone wrong, which leads to the first murder on Krypton in over a thousand years. We next see Kara as part of a crew for a scouting ship. However, things go wrong again (and for a similar reason) while the crew is in status, and Kara eventually crash lands on Earth.

We can speculate all we want about whether or not Supergirl is in Man of Steel, but we probably won’t get an answer until the film comes out. However, there is plenty of information in the comic that gives us other clues to the film. First of all, the interior of the scouting ship looks a lot like what we see Superman walking around in when he’s asking about his past. Could he have found Kara’s ship? The last panel of the comic seems to suggest he is looking for the ship, but why? And how does he know it’s there? Also, given the ship’s location, could this be his fortress of solitude?

There is also some talk in the comic about terraforming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Krypton’s technology somehow comes back to bite them in the butt, thus causing the infamous destruction of Superman’s home world. Thanagarians are mentioned once as well, which could mean future appearances by the superheroes Hawkman and Hawkgirl. I’m sure there are plenty of other Easter Eggs, so let us know in the comments below if you find any.

Overall, it’s a good comic that gives us just a glimpse into the world surrounding Man of Steel, and we’ll hopefully get more given the comic’s numbering. If anything, this makes me want to see Supergirl on screen.

Last month, a video went viral showing a scene from NBC’s Parks and Recreation where Patton Oswalt’s character filibusters for 8 minutes about the next Star Wars film to prevent a vote from happening. The rant brought together the worlds of Star Wars, Marvel, Greek Gods, and more. Unfortunately, that scene had to be cut from the episode for length, but the Internet took hold and really got creative. Case in point, Isaac Moores animated the rant to show just how awesome the concept is. Check out the video after the break.

One thing every sequel should strive to do is improve upon its predecessor, which is also something nearly every sequel fails to deliver on. But sometimes in order to succeed, it helps when your predecessors already started at the bottom of the barrel, leaving the subsequent sequels nowhere to go but up.

Somehow transformed into one of biggest film franchises of all time (and winner of the most ridiculous title continuity issues in film history), the Fast & Furious films have beaten the odds, and that is exactly what has happened with the latest entry in the long running series of car/heist flicks. Fast & Furious 6 has succeeded in topping its predecessors in nearly every conceivable way. Read the full review after the break.

Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian (Paul Walker), Mia (Jordana Brewster) and the rest of the crew have decided to leave their life of crime in the rear-view mirror after walking away with over 100 million dollars of a Brazilian drug lords money. As they all attempt to start new lives, their assorted pasts once again come to haunt them when Dom is visited by special agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson, looking as though he had just stepped off the set of G.I. Joe), who has information on another crew of criminals led by the cunning Owen Shaw (Luke Evans).

This new crew of criminals also happens to include Dom’s former girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), who was presumed dead long ago. It doesn’t take much convincing until Dom accepts Hobbs’ offer to assemble his old crew for one last job, a job that will provide them all with their long sought-after freedom and an opportunity to get their lives back. Soon they are on their way to Paris, where Toretto and Hobbs will work together to take down Shaw and rescue Letty from his evil clutches.

Back in 2011, the Fast & Furious franchise got a much needed jump start in the form of Fast Five, a film which transformed a franchise that took itself way too seriously with poorly developed characters and asinine plotlines. It drastically shifted gears into a series about poorly developed characters, asinine plotlines and a heaping amount of absurd action that not only knew it was over the top and ridiculous but took great pride in that fact. That was it, that was the moment when the Fast & Furious franchise came into its own, when it finally decided to stop treating its silly premise of living life at a quarter mile at a time as though any of it really mattered, and fully embraced its own special brand of stupidity with open arms.

Add in the confident direction by Justin Lin, who has proven that he knows how to film vehicular mayhem, and what you get is a franchise that was well on its way to the pick-a-part but has now become one of the biggest film franchises of all time. The latest film in the franchise, Fast & Furious 6 (or Furious 6 if you are going by the opening title to the film) carries on the fine tradition set by Fast Five and kick-starts the action into high gear almost immediately, and it is all the better for it.

After some quick introductions to some familiar faces such as Han (Sung Kang), Gisele (Gal Gadot), Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Tej (Ludacris), we are flung across the globe as our favorite street racers/thieves tear up the streets of Paris, engaging in one exhilarating car chase after another. They face off against Shaw and his gang of expert thieves, leaving you breathless in the process, all the while establishing its rather weak and cliche-ridden story as quickly and as forgettable as possible. But that is part of the charm of the Fast & Furious series; its sort of self-awareness.

That it actually knows its story is more of a means to an end is what makes these films work. All that matters is getting its large cast of characters behind the wheel in increasingly outrageous stunts (that so happen to use a whole lot of CG effects) and defy all forms of common sense and every law of physics known to man. This series abandoned reality long ago and this sixth entry takes things to a whole new degree of ridiculous excess with a series of action scenes that are just as exciting and imaginative as they are completely illogical and implausible.

Being that these films have become more action oriented over the years instead of being just simple car porn for motorheads, it is expected that each new entry will top the next in terms of its action set pieces and Justin Lin has somehow found a way to stomp all expectations and deliver some impressively chaotic action unlike anything this series has seen before.  From watching Toretto and the gang attempt to take down a rampaging tank on an elevated highway with nothing more than their inferior sports cars, to a multi-car chase through the city streets of Paris and in the film’s most incredible action set piece where they try to prevent a jumbo cargo jet from taking off across the world’s longest stretch of tarmac, there are no shortage of jaw dropping stunts and outrageous action sequences to behold.

Fans of the series that have kept up with each new installment are also in for a treat, because there is no shortage of callbacks to previous films either. This is without a doubt some of most intricate timeline shuffling ever seen in a series that has gone on this long, and for as little thought that has been put into each film’s individual plot, somehow and for some reason it has never ceased to amaze at how well each character’s personal journey has been tracked and kept consistent across each entry.

To explain anymore would be to go into heavy spoiler territory, but let it be known that Fast & Furious 6 ties into the previous films in some surprisingly intelligent ways that seem more than a little out of place for a series that requires as little thinking as possible, but is welcome none-the-less.

As for the characters, this is without a doubt the most jam packed entry into the series yet, with nearly everyone accounted for and some new faces introduced as well. However, it is perplexing that Eva Mendes (who was in the second film and the end credits scene for the fifth one) is still absent. Perhaps that is a good thing though since there seems to be an over abundance of characters as it is with new ones being added all the time, this time with Gina Carano being the new kid on the block and of course the much publicized return of Michelle Rodriguez as Letty, who most assumed died in the fourth film. Well, don’t you feel silly for thinking that now?

While this sort of flip flopping with character deaths is beginning to feel more like a daytime soap opera than just a clever sleight of hand (Han died in the third film but has been in each sequel since then!), one can’t argue against how well it all works with the continued complexity of this insanely ridiculous world these characters exist in. That being said, just about everyone gets some good face-time with the least interesting characters, Elena (Elsa Pataky) and Mia unceremoniously pushed off to the sidelines taking care of Brian and Mia’s newborn for the majority of the film.

If this is all sounding a bit too positive, then you have to put this review, and this franchise in general, into perspective for just a second. These films in no way can be considered as anything other than the blissfully guilty pleasures that they are. Turning off ones brain doesn’t even begin to describe the mental state one has to be in to not give in to the tendency to rip their highly flawed narratives apart piece by piece. Take for instance the motivations behind Shaw’s ultimate plan.

His core goal is to make something called the Nightshade by stealing military components that come together to build something that supposedly shuts down a city’s power for a 24 hour period. Does any of that matter? Not at all, and the film knows that, which is why it is hardly relevant to those legion of fans out there that have come out to see their favorite actors perform the craziest stunts ever seen in the coolest cars available. Just about the only thing missing at this point  is a knowing wink or glance to audience to let us know they are in on the joke.

Those that absolutely need a story or characters that are more than a series of cliches and shallow characterizations should look elsewhere because these films were never meant for you. You really have to judge these films for what they are and what they set out to do, which is to provide simple popcorn entertainment and nothing more. They aren’t exactly critic proof, but they can’t be held up to the same scrutiny as other films that rely on quality acting and a solid script. Instead they rely solely on big stunts and ridiculous action and on those merits alone the film is a success.

All its inherent faults aside, Fast & Furious 6 is vehicular warfare at its absolute best and that is all anyone ever expected from it. So on opening day, if you are either a fan or just someone looking to shutdown their brain for a couple of hours, head out to your local multiplex, by those tickets, strap yourself in and prepare yourself for a fun and exhilarating ride that is both fast and furiously entertaining.

Rating: 3.5/5