Trailer Mash

Reviewing the previews for this week's opening movies

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In the latest CGI nostalgia dredger, some supervillain loser from a video game declares, "We can't change who we are." But the message of Wreck-It Ralph is, of course, the exact opposite, and Ralph, a kind of lumberjack version of Donkey Kong, is the video-game cliché to prove it. The voice is supplied by John C. Reilly, a good choice since this movie reflects his own career: Once a low-rent tough guy in movies such as P.T.

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