2 Fast 2 Furious was just stupid. Not stupid in a good way like the first flick – it was just stupid with a stupid and very generic crime plot. Seen it before and it was done better then – or maybe it wasn’t done better – I don’t like dumb crime dramas with evil drug runners, I guess.

Add in a bunch of flashy cars to your generic crime flick and you have an alleged sequel to a good-natured goofy original flick. Whatever.

They missed the point that the first flick was stupid but the villains were actually the good guys and somehow that made the corny plot work. But now they want the good guys to have square jaws and the bad guys to twirl their mustaches. Don’t know how that worked out.

And they ejected Vin Diesel and kept the block of wood (and added a Vin Diesel replacement). Maybe a Vin-Diesel-less movie could have been a net positive… and maybe Mr. Diesel has better things to do. Who knows. 100% gravelly voices and somber lines about living your life a quarter mile at a time though…

Score: 50