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2012

    The Phantom Menace 

    Twilight 
  • The Running Gag with stares, ultimately leading up to a video composed entirely of all the stares from the movies.
    Narrator: Together, they will have the romance of a lifetime... Expressed entirely in stares. [cue stare montage] ...And even more stares. [continue stare montage]

    Titanic 

    Transformers 
  • "From the horse-faced director who starts shooting before finishing scripts, based on a children's cartoon designed to sell toys comes a movie designed to sell toys, toys that you can't tell apart - except for the black one [This is a cool place to kick it]. Together, they will unite with this stuttering teenager [shows a montage of scenes where Sam Witwicky continually speaks "No!") to defeat the bad guy who doesn't appear until almost two hours into the movie".
  • "But in the meantime, there's gratuitious porny shots of Megan Fox, weird racism [Hey, mammy!] and robot fights that erupt around random hot girls Michael Bay was trying to pork".
  • "This summer, you will say, "What the hell is happening?", until they give the bad guy the thing what he wants [Give me the cube!] and then it kills him. Seriously. It's f*cking stupid".
  • The "Starring" section is just a list of Product Placement.
    Narrator: Starring: Burger King, Panasonic, eBay, Cadillac, GMC, The Strokes, Pepto-Bismol, Xbox, Furbies?, Pontiac, Mountain Dew, Chevrolet, Chevrolet, and introducing: Chevrolet.
  • "Battleship! Um, I mean Transformers! Come on, they both look the same for me..."
  • The narrator is worried at the end that "the Ninja Turtles are f*cked."

    Avatar 
  • "In a world created by fat computer programmers, comes a film so epic it increased ticket prices three whole dollars".
  • The narrator explaining in slight fast-forward how Jake Sully enrolled in the Avatar program and concluding: "It's kinda dumb".
  • "Meet Neytiri, but more importantly, meet her side-bloobs. Toghether they will learn: Military bad. Trees good".
  • The narrator points out how offensive in hindsight is that the Na'vi tribe (described as blue Indians fully in tune with the nature) is helpless without the white man.
  • "This December, prepare for three hours of eyeball twitching [shows montage of eyeballs twitching], as you're force-fed the most obvious message ever ["They're just goddamn trees!"]. It will leave you wondering: 'Do I see her nipple?’".
  • Starring: Plots recycled from Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, The Last of the Mohicans, An Inconvenient Truth, Native American History and FernGully.
  • "Papyrus! I mean, Avatar!"
  • At the end, the narrator says that he just wants another Terminator already.

    The Dark Knight 
  • "A gritty continuation of Batman and his ongoing battle with throat cancer.]
  • "The bat device that inexplicably turns every Gotham City cell phone into a portable sonar radar, which downloads an infinite amount of data that's instantly transmitted wirelessly to Batman's eyes. Hmph, how is that possible? It takes me five minutes to download Angry Birds!"
  • Pointing out Christian Bale's eye wart. "Try not noticing that from here on out."
  • Aaron Eckhart as Two-Face is credited as "Los Pollos Hermanos".
  • "Ugh, who are we kidding? This movie is fucking awesome."

    The Hunger Games 
  • The "Starring" list, rather than puns on the cast, just lists off things that didn't make it into the film, including the actual hunger.
    • The narrator's naming of Gale as "This much hotter guy" culminating in...
    Narrator: I mean, I'm not gay. But I'd totally s**k Gale's d**k.

    The Avengers 
  • "From Joss Whedon, God of the nerds, comes the movie that finally unites the world's greatest heroes... that Marvel still has the rights to."
  • "The ultimate two-hour geek fantasy that blinds nerds from admitting any legitimate criticism and put all DC Comics to suicide watch."
  • "A villain, who inexplicably returns from the dead will now vow vengeance on the planet where his demigod brother's sort-of girlfriend lives forcing this bluetooth obsessed government agency to assemble the heroes from Marvel's greatest franchises, except Spider-Man, Fantastic Four and X-Men."
  • "Suit up with Iron Man - everyone's favourite secondary Marvel character - who must redeem himself from that god awful Iron Man 2, Thor, who sort-of pulled his own movie but who's appearance here completely negates its ending, Captain America - no one's favourite character, who just has to be there, and The Incredible Hulk, who for the sake of the plot, can now suddenly control his rage without any explanation. Which doesn't matter 'cause that shot was awesome! [shows the Hulk punching a Chitauri machinery]."
  • "Witness the excitement of Iron Man repairing a ship in twenty minutes, the thrill of generic aliens flying on jet skis, the confusing energy source of the Tesseract and its completely unjustified failsafe, the explosion that instantly kills every alien, conveniently tying up all loose ends, the bromance [shows Tony and Bruce staring at each other], and the character in the middle of the credits every nerd in the audience pretended to know."
  • "A movie so fullfilling, you won't remember that the first 45 minutes are actually kind of boring. A villain so determined you'll wonder why he's uniting the only people who can stop him in hopes of getting them to dislike each other shows Tony saying "Not a great plan"]"
  • Starring: Bhor, Pink Eye, Iron Man Pooping, Not Edward Norton (Also Not Eric Bana), The Human Torch, Leather Boobs, Mace Windu and Gay Bane.
  • The narrator ends the video with these words:
    Narrator: If this doesn't make your inner eight year old self squeal in delight, you're likely dead inside (or a girl).

    Prometheus 
  • "From the director of all those Russell Crowe movies you never saw and the writer of Lost's unsatisfying final episode comes a sort-of-prequel that doesn't use the best parts of the Alien franchise."

    The Amazing Spider-Man 
  • The Amazing Spider-Man (aka The Not Really That Amazing Spider-Man):
  • "This summer, witness yet another Spider-Man origin story just so Sony could retain the rights to the character"
  • "Peter Parker was just an attractive, intelligent, likeable, athletic, well-dressed teenage loser. But when he easily walks into a high-security lab, one radioactive spider will give him the power to: twitch like a crackhead, break everything, get every father figure in his life murdered, act like a complete jerk every time he gets and stutter worse than Shia LaBeouf in Transformers.
  • "Embark on a romantic journey, where the hottest girl in school falls for this creepy stalker, proving that love always prevails, even when you have gaping wounds that require immediate medical attention".
  • "Immerse yourself in this epic battle, where the hero refuses to fight with the mask on and a villain with the most cliché origin story imaginable, who is conveniently connected to the most important people in Peter's life".
  • "Experience the re-retold story, where an uncle strives to find yet another way of saying: 'With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility' as well as other moments that you've seen before: like this a lot of this, and more of this".
  • "Swing along with the smartest teenager in Manhattan who uses the MySpace of search engines and does a terrible job at hiding his secret identity. Seriously, nobody thought that was odd?"
  • Starring: Baby Head, Charlie Sheen's Dad, Forrest Gump's Mom, Detective O'Murphy McIrish, The Geico Gecko, Octomom and Lindsey Lohan (If She Had Better Parents).

    The Dark Knight Rises 

    The Lord of the Rings 

2013

    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 
  • "Witness Spielberg and Lucas take a giant, steaming dump on their own legacy by replacing scary Nazis with scary ants, mountains with molehills, and Karen Allen with a far less attractive Karen Allen."
  • "so cartoonish, it shows that a refrigerator will protect you from a nuclear bomb. (sighs) Are you f*cking kidding me?"

    Skyfall 

    The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 
  • Culminating the Running Gag with the "STARES!" from the first Twilight Honest Trailer:
    Narrator: Brace yourself for two movies so unnecessarily long that they include: five Volvo commercials, two montages of the previous Twilight movies, four games of chess, and the MOST...STARES...EVER!
  • The Stinger: "So he's gonna have to live with Kristen Stewart forever? I'd rather get my head ripped off!"

    Les Misérables (2012) 
  • Les Misérables (2012) (aka Les Miserableblebles):
    • The narrator decides that with everyone singing their lines in the movie, he's going to sing the trailer.
    • "Now, at the dawn of revolution, one young man will give up everything for a woman he's met through a fence."
    • "Meet Fantine, a random factory worker who brings an incriminating letter to work for no reason and is fired. Sinking into desperation so deep she becomes the most pathetic woman in France in just two verses of song. Watch her with no hair, watch her with no teeth, yet she becomes the most desirable prostitute in town, which she’ll blame on Hugh Jackman even though he had nothing to do with it.” What makes it even funnier is that the whole reason she fell into prostitution was because Hugh Jackman - well, Jean Valjean - allowed his foreman to fire her. So in fact, he had a lot to do with it.
    • During the "Starring part", instead of the narrator saying the gag names, we get this:
      Fancy Wolverine (Jean Valjean/Hugh Jackman): I have a very annoying vibrato.
      Susan Boyle (Fantine/Anne Hathaway): I really really really wanted to win an Oscar.
      Fat Maximus (Javert/Russell Crowe): I should have never agreed to sing an entire movie!
      French Borat (Thénardier/Sacha Baron Cohen): They really should have shown less of me and more of Eponine.
      Tim Burton (Madame Thénardier/Helena Bonham Carter): Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!
    • The last line: "If your girlfriend doesn't appreciate you after sitting through this movie, then you should really rethink your relationship."

    Jurassic Park 

    Harry Potter 

    Iron Man 2 

    Star Trek (2009) 

    Fast Five 

    The Last Airbender 
  • "From the once successful director, who turned his own name into box-office poison, comes the poorly-directed, lazily-written, terribly shot, poorly acted, clumsily edited, oddly paced, insulting adaptation of The Last Airbender. In crazily converted 3D!"
  • The cast is merely "This Girl, This Kid, This... Other Kid, This Dude, Who Cast This Thing?! Oh, The Guy From The Daily Show!, and Slumdog Millionaire!"

    Superman IV: The Quest for Peace 
  • Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (the honest title is pronounced as Superman Iv: The Quest for Peace):
    • The entire Honest Trailer is made in the style of a trailer from The '80s.
  • "From the production company behind Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo comes a Superman movie so bad it'll likely kill the entire franchise for 19 years!"
  • "Christopher Reeve is back for one last paycheck in one of the corniest movies of the decade... which is saying a lot, since it's the '80s. Watch as this mild mannered dork turns into... this mild mannered dork"
  • "Recoil in horror to the return of mentally-unstable actress Margot Kidder, as she struggles to play Lois Lane. And Gene Hackman returning as Lex Luthor, an evil genius who can't pronounce the word nuclear [cue Lex pronouncing the word]."
  • The narrator describes the ridiculous plot of the movie. He is very annoyed that Superman loses being clawed by Nuclear Man.
    • "Marvel at Superman's powers that you know and love! And stare in wide-eyed disbelief to these new, completely new made-up powers like: Rebuilding the Great Wall of China with his eyes! Lowering people with his mind! And helping this woman breathe in outer space!"
  • "So, if you thought this year's Predator and Spaceballs looked too polished, then we've got the summer movie for you! Filled with: Terrible blue screen! Fake miniatures! Ridiculously oversized props! Really, really terrible blue screen! And the same flying shots used over, and over, and over, and over again! Seriously? These are all the same shots? You couldn't do one more take? That's lazy you guys!"
  • Starring: Captain America, Hack Man, Desperately Seeking Superman, Charlie Sheen, Betty Ford and Dolph Lundgren-ish.
  • The Stinger:
    Man, this movie is bad! At least, it's not Marvel, right? They'll never figure out how to do movies!

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine 
  • "Watch as Wolverine's centuries of war are glossed over in one montage to instead make time for things no one wants to see Wolverine do: go on dates, chop wood, get stuck in traffic, and fumble around in the bathroom."
  • "And if you thought they could only ruin Wolverine, wait until you see what they did with Deadpool. The Merc with a Mouth gets his mouth removed and trades his cool costume for 8 Min Abs and magic eyeshadow. Oh, and he also gets a grab bag of random mutant powers that Deadpool never had. Are we sure Brett Ratner didn't direct this?"

    Batman & Robin 
  • "In a world full of crime, one man is determined to kill Batman once and for all. His name is director Joel Schumacher."
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger is credited as "The Punning Man, Coldnan the Barbarian, Kindergarten Ice Pop, Terminator Blue...all right, we get it!"
  • Batman & Robin (aka The Worst Batman Ever):

    Star Trek Into Darkness 

    Iron Man 3 

    The Matrix 

    After Earth 
  • The narrator's utter disbelief at the protagonist's name actually being Cypher Raige.
    Epic Voice Guy: Watch as Will Smith, one of the most charismatic actors, plays a man with no charisma...named Cypher Raige. Haha, very funny, guys, what's his real name? (montage of people saying his name) ...You've got to be kidding me.
  • The narrator flying into rage in the middle of the trailer, and up and leaving, but not before alternating between complete stunned silence and angry muttering.
    Epic Voice Guy: Look, I gotta get outta here. It's just not worth it. You guys don't have to pay me for this one; just call me up next week for Walking Dead. <EVG leaves the recording booth, gets into his car, and speeds off>
    • Particularly because the trailer keeps playing without him narrating it, including the Starring segment. And someone who sounds like the Squeaky Voiced Teenager takes over and reads the quote at the end.

    Pacific Rim 
  • There's something inherently funny about this sentence from the trailer: "When giant aliens emerge from this iTunes visualiser at the bottom of the ocean, the entire world's resources will be spent on building giant robots to punch them in the face."
  • The movie being summed up as "Either the most awesome dumb movie ever made, or the dumbest awesome movie ever made".
  • Starring: Things your inner 9-year-old will love. Giant robots. Giant monsters. Giant robots punching giant monsters. Using shipping crates as brass knuckles. Using a freighter like a baseball bat. Bo staff fighting. Colors! A doggy! Aw, that's got three arms! Pew pew pew! Woah! And that one part where he's all like "ugh" and the kaiju's all "rarr!"

    Thor 
  • Thor (aka Thor's Obligatory Movie):
  • The narrator says that the only way in or out of Asgard is through a level of Rainbow Road from Mario Kart.
  • Loki's plan is very complicated
  • Starring:
  • When Screen Junkies had Thor writer Zack Stentz as a guest, he revealed Kenneth Branagh considered changing the name of Mjölnir (Thor's hammer) because it was too hard to say. If his account of the discussion is anything to go by, even in private Branagh speaks in the way one'd expect from a man known for his adaptations of Shakespeare.
    Branagh: Would the fans string me up if I changed that?
    Zack Stentz: They would, Sir Kenneth, yeah.
    Branagh: ...Alright, we shant be doing that.

    Man of Steel 
  • General Zod plans to annihilate humanity with the power. Of DUBSTEP!
  • The whole bit where the narrator discusses Superman's Opposed Mentors in the form of his fathers.
    Narrator: In order to defeat Zod, Superman must decide which of his two Robin Hood dads to listen to. Space Dad says show off your powers to inspire humanity. Farm Dad says hide your powers and let innocent people die. Watch Superman honor them both, as he shows off his powers AND lets innocent people die.
  • "It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... coming right for us! Everybody run!"

    Home Alone 
  • At one point, it says that Kevin shows all the signs of becoming a sociopath — like talking to himself, or trapping a pair of nonviolent criminals inside a sadistic world of torture straight out of Saw from which there is no escape, for his own amusement. ("But gosh-darn if he isn't just the cutest little thing!"). Then it calls Harry and Marv out on being oddly obsessed with one house that has almost nothing worth stealing.
  • Joe Pesci is billed as Joe Pepsi and John Heard is billed as "The Dad from Home Alone".

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 

    Dragonball Evolution 
  • For Christmas 2013, they tackled this film with the help of Dragon Ball Z Abridged's Goku, Piccolo, Krillin, and later Vegeta.
  • The narrator names this movie as "America's biggest insult to Japanese culture since Hiroshima".
  • "Prepare for Fox's half-assed attempt to cash in on their expiring rights to Dragon Ball. It's an adaption that steals from everything except the source material, featuring elements of: The Matrix, Lord Of The Rings, Twilight?! and... The Last Airbender...? (cue clip showing someone directly referencing the subject material in question from the film) Oh, come on!"
  • The narrator tries to describe the plot of the movie, but gets lost, so Abridged Goku, Abridged Piccolo and Abridged Krillin come to help. The narrator isn't sold, eventually, and they leave breaking his roof.
  • Krillin's not in it, but he gets an "Evolution Krillin Owned Counter" for that very reason.
  • "...as the epic ki attacks from the cartoons are replaced with CGI hand-farts!" [shows montage of CGI ki attacks with fart sounds inserted]
  • When the narrator tries to go to "Starring", he is interrupted:
    Abridged Vegeta: How dare they make a movie about Kakarot and not invite me?
    Narrator: Oh God, not another one...
    Abridged Vegeta: I am Vegeta, PRINCE OF ALL SAYA- [sees Movie Yamcha] oh my God, is that the beta male? Looks like a tiger with Down Syndrome. Never mind, bullet dodged.
  • The "Starring" section is done by Abridged Vegeta instead of the narrator:
    Starring: GEICO (Goku), Teetees (Chi-Chi), The Mask (Piccolo), The Ki Maker (Grandpa Gohan), Crouching Tiger, Dead Career (Master Roshi), Nobody's Favourite Ghostbuster (Sifu Norris), Mighty Joe Young (Oozaru) and Not Lara Croft (Bulma).
    Abridged Vegeta: Oh God, what a steaming pile...
  • In The Stinger:
    Abridged Vegeta: So, wait — Kaka-not wishes a guy he just met back to life at the end of the movie, but he just lets the man who raised him from birth stay dead? Yeah, I can dig that.

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