Theme parks and fast cars are set to dominate the weekend box office through Maple Pictures’ comedy Adventureland and the Universal sequel Fast & Furious, while long-awaited Fanboys and Anvil! The Story of Anvil court niche moviegoers in mainly urban markets.

Adventureland, from Superbad writer/director Greg Mottola, arrives Friday amid favorable reviews on 158 screens countrywide. It stars Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) as a college graduate who finds work at a local theme park, with Canuck Ryan Reynolds and Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart.

The Globe and Mail‘s Rick Groen says Mottola ‘does a nice job playing with the genre’s stock coming-of-age figures,’ while Eisenberg’s character is ‘brainy and likeable,’ according to the Associated Press.

The curiously titled Fast & Furious — the fourth film in the franchise that started with The Fast and the Furious — will likely rule the weekend box office on 3,400 North America screens, according to Box Office Mojo, yet it doesn’t carry much weight with critics.

Variety calls the film — which reunites original cast mates Vin Diesel and Paul Walker — the ‘weakest entry of the four,’ while Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert writes ‘I admire the craft involved, but the movie leaves me profoundly indifferent.’

The critically acclaimed documentary Anvil arrives in theaters more than a year after its debut at Sundance and Hot Docs, and bows at Toronto’s AMC Dundas Square through Ron Mann’s FilmsWeLike. It follows the influential Canadian metal band through the eyes of first-time director Sascha Gervasi.

Diehard fans of Star Wars will relate to director Kyle Newman’s comedy Fanboys, about devotees of the sci-fi franchise who embark on a cross-country journey in 1998 to steal an advance copy of The Phantom Menace. The film opens in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal via Alliance Films, which also bows the romance drama Two Lovers, featuring Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow, in Montreal, followed by Vancouver and Toronto next week. In addition, the distributor releases the Spanish-language feature Sin Nombre, which garnered numerous awards at this year’s Sundance, at Toronto’s Cumberland theatre.

Meanwhile, KinoSmith bows director Chris Smith’s Hindi-language drama The Pool in Toronto and Vancouver, while Mongrel Media opens German drama Cloud 9 at Toronto’s Canada Square.