Mildly Amusing New Trailer for Rainn Wilson's 'Super'

It's odd that Rainn Wilson is absolutely hilarious as the quirky weirdo Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office, but has seemingly failed to transfer that comedic talent to the big screen.  His new super hero inspired flick, Super, co-starring the charismatic cutie Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon and Liv Tyler  just might be his ticket to landing more promising roles in the future, especially if it's a hit.

In Super, Wilson plays Frank, a man whose wife (Tyler) leaves him for a seductive drug dealer (Bacon), and as a result of that heartbreak, Frank creates the alter ego of a super hero for himself called the Crimson Bolt. 

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New 'Super' Movie Images Show Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page and Kevin Bacon Take On Crime

The James Gunn directed film with Kick-Ass potential shares three new images to the existing library of photographs.  This one features Rainn Wilson posting an ad dressed as a superhero, Ellen Page looking like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and Kevin Bacon eating bacon.

Like Kick-Ass this film will be ultra-violent and shares a similar storyline in which Rainn Wilson dresses up as a superhero with no powers.  The film is looking at a limited release in LA and NYC on April Fools Day and expanding to other markets the following week.

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'Super' Set for Release

James Gunn's upcoming superhero comedy starring Rainn Wilson has finally released its debut date: April 1st! And they're not foolin', we hope.

The film follows your average Joe, named Frank, as he transforms himself into a superhero called "The Crimson Bolt". When his wife (Liv Tyler) begins canoodling with a smooth talking drug dealer (Kevin Bacon) Frank must take up arms, or a wrench, and take care of business. Teamed up with "Boltie", his sidekick, (Ellen Page) the two are here to save the day.

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Movie Review - 'Inception'

Inception Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Marion Cotillard Directed by Christopher Nolan Rated PG-13

There is almost always something new to dissect and digest in each scene of Christopher Nolan's Inception, a film made with so much bravura that it's hard to dismiss any part of it. A near-perfect heist movie, a near-perfect sci-fi movie, and a near perfect film noir, it is the work of an absolute clinician in total control. The only drawback is that watching Inception means consciously watching Christopher Nolan work, and he may have been such a perfectionist that he drains out of this a little of the joy of watching the movies. Anne Thompson, the great film journalist at IndieWire, compared Nolan's latest to Stanley Kubrick, and that's partially true. The tone of the film, the high-wire act the filmmaker walks knowing that there's nearly as much risk of failure as chance for staggering success, is reminiscent of Kubrick. And, in fact, Inception has some of the fingerprints of Kubrick's The Killing on its most basic structure. However, a comparison of what Nolan is attempting to do to anyone, even a great filmmaker like Kubrick, isn't fair to what is one of the most technically accomplished films you'll ever see. Original storytelling, original stuntwork, and original visual effects add up to a disorienting experience, and yet, Nolan takes great pains in making the plot, its characters, and its unique world make perfect sense throughout, although it still requires a massive amount of explanation, so complex is Nolan's story. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) wants nothing more than to get home to his children. He's half a world away, constantly working, waiting for the day when he can finally return. He's offered one last job by a powerful client named Saito (Ken Watanabe). Cobb is a thief of sorts. He breaks into people's minds and steals their deepest secrets. Cobb and his associates insinuate themselves into a subject's dream and, extracting pivotal pieces of information through what is self-evidently referred to as Deception. The dream state is chemically induced, and is shared by a team, just as there would be necessary workers during a bank heist: Someone to plan it, someone to be a decoy, someone to crack the vault, and someone to drive the car. The dreams themselves seem longer than they are. For every five minutes Dom is under, an hour of dream time elapses. Supposing the dream went one level deeper - a dream within a dream - those five minutes would buy Dom about 12 hours. That's a long time, which serves an extractor very well, because the world of the dream is completely constructed by an architect. In other words, all the world's a stage.

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Latest 'Inception' Trailer Too Good To Ignore

Here, my friends, is the real deal. After two intentionally confounding trailers were released for Inception, supported by enigmatic comments by Christopher Nolan over the past several months, we finally have something. Granted, the story is still unclear, but now I think there's just so many things to try to figure out, there's no way an interested summer movie fan can let this one slip by.

Even without really having a handle on what's going on, the lure of watching it unfold is what this trailer is all about. How do these pieces fit together? Why is Leonardo DiCaprio recruiting Ellen Page, and why is Leo visiting the ice planet Hoth? So no, we may not know appreciably more, but I think we know we want to find out what the hell is going on here. Your mind is the scene of the crime; Trailer Addict is the scene of the trailer.

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