History YMMV / TheFastAndTheFurious

* GrowingTheBeard: Fast Five for critics, getting an 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that's a considerable jump from the 52% of the first film, the previous best reviewed in the franchise Fast Six has a 74% so far.

* CompleteMonster: Shaw, the BigBad of Movie 6. See TheSociopath on the Main Page for more details.

* WhatAnIdiot: Okay, Sean is a massive douchebag, in that he openly tries to antagonise people, but his love interest is also one, due to not getting that DK is the jealous type. Does the guy need a flashing neon sign saying "DON'T COME NEAR MY GIRL" for her to get it?

* Tearjerker: [[spoiler: Gisele's death in the sixth film]]

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Fast 5'' being the entry which saw the franchise undergo a GenreShift from street racing to heist movie, when you remember that the sequel to the ''[[Film/{{The Italian Job 2003}} The Italian Job]]'' remake, stuck in DevelopmentHell for years, was going to be set in Brazil. Further compounded by the fact ''The Italian Job'' had a [[MarketBasedTitle Market Based]] StockSubtitle of "L.A. Heist" & ''Fast 5'' had the MarketBasedTitle "Rio Heist".

* GrowingTheBeard: Fast Five for critics, getting an 78% on Rotten Tomatoes, and that's a considerable jump from the 52% of the first film, the previous best reviewed in the franchise.

* SophomoreSlump: ''2 Fast 2 Furious'' is generally regarded as the worst entry in the series.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The bit in the second film where [[spoiler:Roman ''ejects'' one of the villain's henchmen, then laughs manically]].

* DidNotDoTheResearch: Considering they had a specialist consultant to ensure realism, the first film has some pretty outlandish claims about the parts on the cars.
** Nitrous oxide would not explode as it does in the Eclipse. Or Dom's Chevelle in the fourth movie.
** The Evo VIIs donated by Mitsubihi in ''2 Fast'' were actually just prototype U.S. market Evo VIIIs with off-the-shelf VII parts. Mitsubishi had yet to announce the launch of the Evo stateside, so they made the production team dress them up - as a Japan market-only model.
** Nitrous is used wrong in practically all of the movies except ''Fast Five''; unless you had large, visible wiring looms sticking out, it'd be impossible to fire nitrous from a simple press of a button on your steering wheel.

* BetterByADifferentName: Film Brain of WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown basically claims this film was better when it was ''PointBreak''.
** The third was better when it was ''InitialD''.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The bit in the second film where [[spoiler:Roman ''ejects'' one of the BigBad's henchmen, then laughs manically]].
* DullSurprise: Brian. ''Constantly.''

* BetterByADifferentName: Film Brain of WebOriginal/BadMovieBeatdown basically claims this film was better when it was ''PointBreak''.

* MemeticMutation: [[http://iminyourface.ytmnd.com/ I'M IN YOUR FACE.]]

* BetterByADifferentName: Film Brain of BadMovieBeatdown basically claims this film was better when it was ''PointBreak''.

* CrackIsCheaper: This discovery was made by every teenager who got into car customization after seeing these movies.
** This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in the movie: Vin Diesel's gang keeps stealing the trucks to pay for their car parts.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Most import tuning fans hate the movies, mainly because they spawned the "ricer" subculture. ''Tokyo Drift'' is especially hated for the on-screen sacrilege of powering a Mustang with an [=RB26=] ''and then'' using a regular 351cid Windsor V8 Mustang for the actual stunts. They tried to get away from this in ''Fast Five''; Paul Walker said in an interview that they realized the "cars had become the stars" and the fifth movie concentrated more on the characters than showing off shiny vehicles.

* BetterByADifferentName: One of the videos on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses basically claims this film was better when it was ''PointBreak''.

** This is Lampshaded in the movie: Vin Diesel's gang keeps stealing the trucks to pay for their car parts.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: The bit in the second film where [[spoiler:Roman ''ejects'' one of the BigBad's henchmen, then laughs manically.]]
* EarWorm: ''[[{{Ludacris}} Act a Fool]]'' from the second movie and ''Tokyo Drift'' from the third.
* LoveItOrHateIt: Most import tuning fans hate the movie, mainly because it spawned the "ricer" subculture and Tokyo Drift will get hated on for the allegedly [=RB26=] powered Mustang.

* LoveItOrHateIt: Most import tuning fans hate the movie, mainly because it spawned the "ricer" subculture and Tokyo Drift will get hated on for the allegedly RB26 powered Mustang.