What's Wrong with the Hangover Part II Trailer?

The Hangover Part II is one of 2011's most anticipated films and last week's recently released trailer has me thinking this sequel might be worth the price of admission. Why then, with anticipation for the film on the rise, is the MPAA forcing Warner Bros. to remove the trailer from theaters?

Apparently Warner Bros. has sent out notices to theater owners to remove the trailer from prints of Source Code and that copies of the trailer "need to be destroyed." No reason was given, and the story is especially strange due to the fact that the trailer was approved by the MPAA as a green-band trailer. The assumption is, perhaps, that family audiences were offended by the content of the trailer. But what sense does that make? Source Code a PG-13 science fiction film about the moments before death. It isn't the kind of film one would bring children to in the first place.

Furthermore, if family audiences were concerned about the sexual content of the trailer, then there are probably a number of other trailers that need to be pulled, including this one for Green Lantern.

When Ryan Reynolds wakes up in his underwear next to that girl, what were they doing the night before? Playing Monopoly? And how about this trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides?

What is it that Jack is always pointing at that Penelope Cruz?

These jokes may not be as raunchy as the monkey/weenus joke in The Hangover Part II trailer, but children are no more likely to get that joke as they are to understand the sexual innuendo in the preceding trailers. The point is, to have the trailer removed from prints of a PG-13 movie that is not aimed at kids to start with and then destroyed seems like a gross overreaction.

Of course, it is only speculation that that is the reason the trailer has been removed. Until we learn the truth, here's something to make you laugh.