Film Summary DCLXXIII (Fast And Furious)

Well I did it.

After so many years I finally caved in and watched one of these Fast and Furious films.

And I have to agree with General consensus on this one.

These movies are chock-full of action and way too many different plot details.

We've got a wife trying to manipulate her husband into taking a vacation.
A husband giving several thousand dollars to a close friend and then manipulating his wife to go on a vacation to a different spot.
The two of them getting into a squabble because he was put onto a beauty pageant judging panel unbeknownst to him by the friend he was giving money to.
A giant party scene involving a bunch of people hanging about and singing loudly while other people try to get money out of a bunch of other people.
A criminal investigation involving a bunch of people stealing money from the pageant (some of which is intermingled with the $5,000 as brought up earlier).
A murder case that Springs up, a case of who-dun-it and a bunch of people I weren't even aware we're detectives running around and trying to solive the case. Then being told off because they have personal involvement.
The actual beauty pageant itself.
A different attempted murder caused by some other people and the big old cherry on top of all of this;
A bunch of lions getting locked in a room revolving around an entirely different event.

Sweet Lord above! It's just way too much.
All these different plot points with little to no characterization, no personal dialogue between 90% of the characters, no breathing room to get involved in any one particular case. A short running time guaranteeing that everything moves past way too quickly but simultaneously takes too long has a hundred different stories happening at once makes an hour feel like two.

This whole film is all over the place. At first it starts out being really comedic and then it just turned into your basic detective story.
Then it goes back to being a comady again. But this time it's artificially inflated to a farce because of a stupid plot involving lions.

I'm not going to lie, I couldn't keep up with half these plots. And it doesn't help that half the cast looks exactly the same and I stated earlier we don't get any personalization with any of them so I have to rely on physical look to try and determine who's who.
Really I just didn't find any of it worth it.
The only thing of note I can think of is that Paul Newlan pops up for a couple of seconds playing an angry tenant who wants to fight room service because they won't send up his cheesesteak sandwich. To which they do the old switch-a-roo joke involving a big angry man getting beaten by a supposedly weak and much smaller man.
Besides that I'm not sure if anything's going to stay in my mind from this movie. Maybe the part with the Lions but that's only because it's so utterly ridiculous and it's hard to forget.