Here at The Stranger, we take the Fast & Furious films VERY SERIOUSLY.
Which means today we are celebrating the release of the first trailer for the very first F&F spinoff film, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw! Have you seen it yet! Have you not seen it yet! Either way, let's watch it! Or watch it again!
WE HAVE NINE QUESTIONS:
• Is this literally the only time in history that a bottle of champagne has ever been involved in any scenario remotely related to the word "cool"?
• Is Idris Elba's cyber-enhanced bad guy character actually a ghost and is he actually named "Bad Guy"? They say his name is "Brixton" later, right when they call him a "ghost," but maybe Brixton is just his last name. Bad Guy Brixton. Or maybe his mortal name was Brixton but then he died and his ghost name is Bad Guy!• Who decided to score this trailer with "Why Can't We Be Friends?"
• Can we give them the Nobel Prize in literature?
• Is that the Griswold Maneuver?
• Chernobyl???
• Where will Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw end up in the F&F quality rankings? For those who have forgotten, the correct order, thus far, in terms of "greatest" to "slightly less greatest" goes:
Fast & Furious 6 (2013)
Furious 7 (2015)
Fast Five (2011)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
Fast & Furious (2009)
• Elevator high jinks???
• In addition to The Rock and Jason Statham, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw also stars Vanessa Kirby, aka Princess Margaret on the best goddamn television series of all time, The Crown! Does this mean that Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw takes place in The Crown universe? And wait... isn't The Crown universe our universe? Could... could Hobbs and Shaw be...
... could they be real?