History Film / TheFastAndTheFurious

A fourth film, ''Fast & Furious'', was released in Spring 2009 with VinDiesel, Paul Walker, MichelleRodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprising their previous roles. It's been five years and Brian has returned to Los Angeles law enforcement, this time as an FBI agent hunting another drug dealer. He reunites with Dom, offering him a pardon in exchange for help catching the drug dealer. Tension heats up when their personal motivations are revealed as Brian, Dom, Letty, and Mia struggle to work through the residual complications of their last encounter with each other.

According to TheOtherWiki, a sixth film is in development as of the opening weekend of ''Fast Five''.

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->''On the other side of the world a new style of street racing rules the Tokyo underground. The cars are lighter. The tires are slick. When you drift, if you ain't out of control, you ain't in control. And if you work the wheel back and forth just right... you get blue sparks.''
->--Webcomic/{{xkcd}} [[http://xkcd.com/127/ #127]]

* TheDanza: Tego Leo played by Tego Calderon.

* DawsonCasting: ''Tokyo Drift'' is the only offender, for obvious reasons: Lucas Black (Sean) was 22, Zachary Ty Brian (Clay) was 23, Nikki Griffin (Clay's girlfriend Cindy) was 28, Nathalie Kelley (Neela) was 21, Bow Wow (Twinkie) was 19, Leonardo Nam (Takeshi's friend Morimoto) was 25, and Brian Tee (Takeshi) was the worst at 29. Only Bow Wow was still technically a teenager out of the cast.
** Both Toretto (VinDiesel) and Vince (Matt Schulze) were said to be 24 when ''The Fast and The Furious'' has been made. VinDiesel was 34, Matt Schulze was 29 by then.
** Well, Schulze was still in his twenties at least. Diesel, however, passed pretty well for 24-year old Toretto. (Many have jokingly attributed [[OneOfUs Diesel's]] younger appearance compared to his real age to his love for [[DungeonsAndDragons D&D]].) However, the actors for Tokyo Drift easily stand out as people older than their character's ages, Dawson Casting at it's damn-near worst.
** Sung Kang was 39, 36 and 34 respectively when filming ''Fast Five'', ''Fast and Furious'' and ''Tokyo Drift''. Granted, we wouldn't be able to pinpoint Han's actual age in the films, but it's freaking amazing how Kang manages to pull off the role looking young.

* ChekovsGun / [[spoiler:FakinMacGuffin]]: In the fifth film, [[spoiler: the ''ten ton vault'']] the crew obtains turns out to be more than just for practice.

* RefugeInAudacity: This was pretty much the crew's M.O. in Fast Five. For Starters: Dom's plan to get Reyes to move his money was to attack one of Reyes' drug houses, show his face and burn his money in front of Reyes' men and instruct them to tell Reyes what happened. Reyes moves his money to one heavily guarded spot instead of ten spots that are just guarded well, just like Dom planned. Except for the part about, it being a police station.

* TheCameo: [[spoiler:VinDiesel]] at the end of ''Tokyo Drift'', and [[spoiler:EvaMendes and MichelleRodriguez]] in the credits of ''Fast Five''.

* FairCop: US Customs agent [[EvaMendes Monica Fuentes]] in the second film. Rio police officer Elena Neves in the fifth. Brian O'Connor, for the ladies.

* ReplacementLoveInterest: EvaMendes as Monica Fuentes in ''2 Fast 2 Furious''. This is promptly squashed by FirstGirlWins in ''Fast & Furious''. [[spoiler:Dom also gets one in ''Fast Five''. Interestingly enough, Dom is ''her'' ReplacementLoveInterest too. One wonders how that's going to play out since Letty is actually alive]].

** ''Fast Five'': [[spoiler: Agent EvaMendes revealing Letty is alive and driving in Berlin]].

* RacingTheTrain: Brian and Dom do this at the end of the first movie while also drag-racing against each other.

* EveryCarIsRearWheelDrive: Mostly subverted, although a Skyline in the second movie was converted to rear wheel drive for certain stunt work.

* OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: This has been taken to the point of absurdity by this series: ''No two movies use the same numbering system''. The series goes ''The Fast And The Furious'', ''2 Fast 2 Furious'', ''The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift'', ''Fast & Furious'', ''Fast Five'' (known as ''Fast & Furious 5'' in the UK). Just to confuse things further, the fourth and fifth films are Midquels fitting between the second and third films, and the main characters are inconsistent across the series as well. The producers are reportedly planning two more sequels, but haven't settled on the titles yet. They're casually referring to them as ''Fast Six'' and ''Fast Seven''. Just to keep the tradition, here's to hoping they name them something like ''Fast VI'' and ''Fast 7: Forever Furious''.

* CreatorProvincialism: Having owned 2 R34 GT-R's, a classic 1971 C10 Skyline and ending Fast Five with an R35, Brian appears to have a keen interest in Nissan's GT-R range. The actor who plays him, Paul Walker, purchased one of just 14 legalised R34 Skyline GT-R's in America before modifying it to around 500 BHP. A Website/YouTube video has surfaced of Paul testing out a Mine's modified R35 GT-R as well.

* SequelGoesForeign: The third film goes to Japan, the fifth to Brazil.

* ThirdPersonPerson: Dwight, from ''Fast and Furious''.

--? '''Dwight''': Dwight likes [[ConvenientlyCommonKink this foot]] a lot.

-->Webcomic/{{xkcd}} [[http://xkcd.com/127/ #127]]