Fast and Furious 6 - Much more than man candy

Where can you find car chases, car crashes, and car races with bad arse girl fights, gun fights, prison fights, and big guys with beefy muscle fights, plus tough chicks who come back from the dead and mucho man candy?  Look no further than the 6th installment of The Fast and The Furious franchise.  Fast and Furious 6, aka Fast 6, aka Furious 6, is a fast paced, action packed, movie with a plausible story to back up all the excitement.

Let's start with the reason why most women go to see the movie...the man candy.  Fast 6 stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne "I don't wanna be The Rock anymore" Johnson, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Sung Kang, and Luke Evans.  (There's girls too.  I'll get to them later.)  Just about everyone on that list is lick-your-lips yummy.  Vin is Dominic Toretto, the leader of the criminal crew who likes to drive fast cars while stealing money, drugs, or what have you.  He use to be drop dead gorgeous to me, but the more I look at him, the more I notice how he's aging and how tiny his mouth is.  It's just so small for his face.  He looks like a terrible kisser to boot which takes his hot factor down a bit.  Not to mention he's not hitting the weights regularly any more.  He's looking more like Daddy Diesel than Hott Man Dom.

Paul Walker and those sexy blue eyes is Brian O'Conner, former FBI agent turned criminal, who is in a relationship with Dom's sister.  Dwayne Johnson, is the master of the muscle bound man candy who is the law man using Dom's crew to catch the bad guy, but I think he needs to lay off the steroids and weights just a tad bit.  He was looking a little too meaty and it took his sexy down a little...very little.  Tyrese, Mr. Super Sexy Yet Arrogant I Don't Like Black Women Chocolaty Man, is the comic relief as Roman.  He cracks many jokes with his big mouth, and they crack many jokes about him, that big mouth, and his big forehead.  He's oh so very yummy to gaze upon, but he'll never be on the CGI list with that attitude of his.  Luda (nerdy somewhat sexy computer geek), Sung (almost hot asian guy named Han), and Luke (hot bad guy with a scrumptious accent, Owen Shaw) round out the man meat.

All of these guys except Luke appear in at least one of the Fast movies.  It is very necessary to watch all of them or at least have an idea of what happens in each one (ok, well 3 and 4 suck monkey balls so just read about them on Wikipedia or something) because every last movie was referenced in Furious 6.  If you haven't seen any of the movies, you won't understand why they are going through all of this to see Letty (Michelle "My shoulders are ginormous" Rodriguez), and the relationships between Brian & Mia (the super cute Jordana Brewster) and Han & Gisele (the extremely tough Gal Gadot).  They really do a great job of trying to tie all of the movies together, and keeping the story fresh and new.  After five movies, they finally started to get it right.  That's good because there definitely will be a seventh.  The movie kept everyone on the edge of their seats.  There was even a twist that I saw coming but clearly no one else did.  Now, some of the action scenes were outlandish, but very cool nonethless, so I'll give the plausibility a pass.

I must say, I truly enjoyed this one as much as Fast 5 which is the only one that I own on DVD.  I had my reservations about it seeing that it the SIXTH one, and as you all know, I don't think sequels are necessary unless it's a book.  But, and this is a big but, the Fast and Furious series may be an exception to this rule if only for all that yumminess on the screen, and if they keep the storyline interesting.  Go see it.  There's something for everyone to enjoy.

Next week, After Earth and maybe Now You See Me.