History YMMV / Crank

* FanNickname: Some message boards (very few though) have labelled it as VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto: TheMovie. Seeing all the carjacking, excessive violence, sex, drugs, and what-not... it seems appropriate.

** As said on the Trivia page, there are those who consider this a movie adaptation of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', and what the average player tends to do between missions.

* MemeticMutation: [[https://i.imgur.com/IatAbUR.jpg Raughs]]
* MST3KMantra: '''Invoked''' in the beginning of the second film. A news reporter comments on the implausibility of someone ([[spoiler:Verona]]) falling from the sky randomly being "bullshit". His words.

* CatharsisFactor: Meta: According to Taylor in [[https://comicbook.com/movies/2018/01/05/crank-3-details-jason-statham-brian-taylor/ this]] interview, actor [[Creator/PattonOswalt Patton Oswalt]] watched the 2nd movie as a stress reliever.

* CatharsisFactor: According to Taylor in [[https://comicbook.com/movies/2018/01/05/crank-3-details-jason-statham-brian-taylor/ this]] interview, actor [[Creator/PattonOswalt Patton Oswalt]] watched the 2nd movie as a stress reliever.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtracks for both movies have been well-received for their creativity and diversity.
In particular, Mike Patton's score for the second film has is a quirky, fast-paced experimental mixture of different genres.

* AwesomeMusic: The soundtracks for both movies have been well-received for their creativity and diversity.
** Mike Patton's score for the second film has is a quirky, fast-paced experimental mixture of different genres.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Especially noticeable in ''Crank: High Voltage'', which might be one of the best examples of how to do this trope right. There are so many stereotypes and so much over-the-top violence, it manages to skip over "Offensive" and come back around to "Funny."

* DesignatedHero: Chelios is an exceptionally violent, uncaring individual established to be a mob hitman and he will generally wreck anyone's day at the slightest excuse. The only real reason he's established as the good guy with any clarity is that everyone else is [[{{Jerkass}} even worse]].
** It does help that he apparently lives in a CrapsackWorld that's like a Hollywood-ized Creator/JhonenVasquez creation.

* SpiritualAdaptation: As said on the Trivia page, there are those who consider this a movie adaptation of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', and what the average player tends to do between missions.
** Some people may also consider the first Crank movie this to ''Film/{{Speed}}'', given that both movies share a similar premise: the protagonists cannot slow down or take a break, or else they will die.
** If the first movie is GTA, the second movie is ''VideoGame/SaintsRow''.
* ValuesDissonance: In a 2017 interview, [[http://comicbook.com/movies/2018/01/05/crank-3-details-jason-statham-brian-taylor/ Brian Taylor explained]] why a ''Crank 3'' never happened despite support from both fans and the crew. On top of being niche films, he said it was impossible to make a movie like ''Crank'' in today's politically correct environment. It relies heavily on [[CrossesTheLineTwice vulgar and offensive humor]], and they simply couldn't get away with trying to make a movie in a similar vein again.

* HolyShitQuotient

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Chev and his girlfriend make love on a turf. (Don't ask.) The racing horses jump over them and his girlfriend has a good look at...[[BestialityIsDepraved Well, her face says everything.]]

* BilingualBonus: Possibly for a German. An assonance between "El Huron" (The Ferret) and "whore" works ''much'' better there.

* DesignatedHero: Chelios is an exceptionally violent, uncaring individual established to be a mob hitman and he will generally wreck anyone's day at the slightest excuse. The only real reason he's established as the good guy with any clarity is that everyone else is [[JerkAss even worse]].

* SpiritualLicensee: As said on the Trivia page, there are those who consider this a movie adaptation of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', and what the average player tends to do between missions.

** There are A LOT of Asian stereotypes, especially in the second film. Then again, it is the late David Carradine...

** Some people may also consider the first one this to ''Film/{{Speed}}'', given that both movies share a similar premise: the protagonists cannot slow down or take a break, or else they will die.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The power station fight in the second movie, which turns into a kaiju parody with caricatures of the two combatants.

** The second film is much more cartoonish, random, and violent than the first.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The whole thing. No, really. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]]. It's a plot point.
** "Hey, doll. Looks like I let you down again..."
** Chev Chelios is a man who, while completely on fire, will throw the man he's fighting into a pool. ''[[{{Badass}} Then walk away.]]''
*** And after he's walked away [[spoiler: he gives a melting middle finger to the audience!]]
** Chev's doctor and his girlfriend successfully kidnapping Poon Dong and extracting his heart.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Why'd you stop?" "What, so you can fall asleep like you always do?"
** "I'm ALIIIIIIVE!"
*** Then he dies.
** "Many Triads would give the hearts from their own breasts to save Poon Dong. Not me though, '''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck that]]''', but many."
** "You killed my brother mother fucker, prepare to die."
** The entire epinephrine scene, which begins with Chelios running down the street screaming, wearing only a hospital gown, while [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome British speed metal]] plays in the background.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Chelio's goodbye to his girlfriend at the end of the first movie.
** Which doubles around to funny in the sequel, when we find out his goodbye message was drowned out by the wind.