This was what a summer movie is all about; put your brain on hold and just enjoy the ride and the laughs. What I really liked and what really surprised here was the way they totally leaned into the sheer ridiculousness of it all.
There's not even an effort to be realistic here. At this point the cast and crew are as aware as the audience of how absurd these movies have become so in this one they just say "To hell with it" and just go for it. There are Meta jokes , fieros in space and no one where's seat belts except for Ramsey, which is a meta joke itself.
By dropping the seriousness the crew ends up leaning into the fun of the whole thing. And that's what F9 is ...a lot of fun. I laughed all the way thru. A good time.
There's not even an effort to be realistic here. At this point the cast and crew are as aware as the audience of how absurd these movies have become so in this one they just say "To hell with it" and just go for it. There are Meta jokes , fieros in space and no one where's seat belts except for Ramsey, which is a meta joke itself.
By dropping the seriousness the crew ends up leaning into the fun of the whole thing. And that's what F9 is ...a lot of fun. I laughed all the way thru. A good time.
