Jeremy Urquhart is a writer at Collider who focuses on the Godzilla series, the films of Martin Scorsese, and anything in the action genre.
If you watch a movie in the Fast & Furious series, you're likely to find a decent number of reoccurring elements. Things began with a focus on street racing, and though it pivoted to being more about heists and espionage as it went along, cars have remained a focus throughout. There isn't as much racing in later films, but there are plenty of action sequences that heavily use all sorts of vehicles in their place.
Elsewhere, 2 Fast 2 Furious is also well-known for being intensely homoerotic, and kind of campy in a way that feels reminiscent, at times, of some of the later films. Diesel-heads and those who prefer the melodrama found in the more “family” focused movies might well find this all a bit disappointing, but anyone wanting a very 2000s and endearingly corny action movie, 2 Fast 2 Furious might well satisfy.
✕ Remove Ads It features some rather old-looking teenagers and sees Vin Diesel show up briefly near the film’s conclusion, with certain events surrounding Han, who’s introduced here, being important/referenced in later films. Going by release date, it makes sense that there isn't as much talk about “family” here, but going by chronological order, this film stands out for mentioning “family” less than the sixth and seventh movies, which Tokyo Drift takes place between.
Perhaps that’s why it’s less important to stress “family” here; it’s a given when the family is literal, but explained and talked about more when it’s a symbolic family; a close-knit team of friends who might as well be the real thing. Anyway, as a movie, F9 is also perhaps a bit ridiculous, but it’s also the ninth movie in a long-running series that had been kind of ridiculous for a while, so you kind of have to accept that’s what you're in for here.
3 'Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw' "Family" count: 15 As the lengthy title suggests, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is a spin-off from the mainline series. Instead of Dom and his family, Hobbs & Shaw understandably focuses on Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw and Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs, all the while having a sense of self-aware comedy that differentiates it from the somewhat more serious other movies.
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