Fast and Furious

This is one franchise I’ve been avoiding for a really long time for I was always under the impression that they were nothing but car game/races shown at different setting. I happened to saw the trailer of one of the movies from that franchise where space, satellite and things were being shown. Was wondering how come a series that made its name on car races is now dealing with space and that curiosity dragged me into watching the same. I am not able to put a word, whether it was surprise, shock, funny ( as in gabtun vijaykanth/ balayya movies sense), but they actually were driving car in space, crashing it on an enemy satellite and even getting rescued by a team floating around on a pod!!! That one scene was proof of pudding about the franchise, where it showed the extent to which they take car and their care about the prime USP of the franchise!! I saw a couple of movies out of the 9 or 10 that has been churned out of that factory line and there is not one impossible sequence that you can think of where they cannot pull it off with their cars. They destroy submarines, jumbo large aero planes, army tanks and anything under the indestructible sun with the help of their cars. In fact in one of the movie, a character wonders how come they never even have a scar despite getting beaten and pushed to near death situations and suspects them to be invincible, a tongue in cheek self-dig at the impossible stunts they pull in every movie. The lavishness of the sets, the amazing mean machines they assemble every movie, the beefed up cast, sizzling hot lady characters and above all the stunt sequences – wow. They deserve an Oscar every year the movie gets released simply for the bamboozling set up that they conceive and present on screen. There is a scene in one of the movies where to reach an impossible cliff, secured by an army of goons and sheer cliff, they air drop people on cars from a plane!!! And they do land driving at top gear, parachuted on to that place!!! The scale of budget for each movies make one wonder how the hell they even bankroll for such sequences after hearing them being explained or written on paper!!! But such impossible and imaginative stunts sell the movie. And of course there is a small bit of connectivity across all the movies with the same cast donning their role and creating an universe for themselves. The concept of family, in thick as thieves sense, is driven more strongly than a MGR or gabtun movie!! No wonder the series has managed to survive from the very first where the crew are shown stealing some Panasonic sets to the latest one where they crash destroy satellites. Will sky be the limit for this series or will they race aliens on the next one? Seriously curious about that fast and furious one.