Movie: Superfast!
Release date: 03 April 2015
Writers: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer
Director: Jason Friedberg
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Andrea Navedo, Daniel Booko, Lili Mirojnick, Dale Pavinski and others
IDMb Rating: 3.9
IDMb Link- 2933474
FORMAT : MP4
CODEC : X264
GENRE : Comedy
FILE SIZE : 754.97 MB
RESOLUTION : 1280X720
FRAME RATE : 24 fps
LANGUAGE : English
RUNTIME : 99 mins
Movie Plot-
Undercover police officer Lucas White enters the world of underground street racing to join a gang of street racers led by Vin Serento to get closer to a crime ring led by Los Angeles kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol. The morning after losing a street race, Lucas goes to Vin's garage with a wrecked Smart Fortwo and lands a job as a mechanic, despite objections by Vin's friend Curtis. He also develops a relationship with Vin's sister Jordana.
The next day, Lucas and Vin head to a secluded area, where they win a dance audition for de la Sol. The duo drive de la Sol's supercar to a warehouse to meet up with a gang and exchange it for a briefcase of cash, only to discover a bomb inside. They play catch with the gang until the bomb explodes on Vin's face before a shootout ensues. Vin chases after the gang leader while Lucas accidentally guns down Detective Hanover, his superior and the only one aware of his identity as an undercover cop. After the duo flee from the scene, Detective Rock Johnson and Officer Julie Canaro arrive to investigate the shootout. Meanwhile, de la Sol orders a hit on Vin following the double-cross. Back at Serento Garage, Vin and the gang discover a list of de la Sol's illegal activities through a computer in the supercar, to which they set out to steal de la Sol's secret stash of $100 million. For this heist, Vin employs the services of Rapper Cameo, Cool Asian Guy, and Model Turned Actress. At the same time, Jordana reveals to Lucas that she is pregnant with their child. Later, the gang begin their heist, but end up on the wrong street and mistakenly mug a pastor and a nun delivering bingo night money. They regroup and deduce that the secret stash is inside a Big Ass Taco restaurant. They hatch a plan to break into the vault, steal the cash, and flee to an extradition-free country with no casualties involved, except for Curtis. The next morning, Johnson and his squad raid the garage; the facility is empty, but Canaro discovers the gang's plans, which are heavily ignored by Johnson.
At the Big Ass Taco, the gang realize they have been double-crossed by Curtis and engage in a shootout with de la Sol's thugs. At the last minute, Curtis is shot dead by de la Sol's henchman Cesar while protecting Vin. Using the restored Smart and Lucas' Toyota Corolla, Vin and Lucas tow the whole restaurant away. De la Sol and Cesar chase after them with Johnson and his squad in pursuit. Vin's lesbian girlfriend Michelle hands herself over to Canaro to help the gang get away. Meanwhile, de la Sol kicks Cesar out of his SUV after an argument over the climate control. Johnson kills Cesar in a shootout and stops de la Sol, but the kingpin flees after bribing the detective with a male enhancement kit. Upon hearing an explosion, Johnson heads to the abandoned restaurant and chases after the gang. He nabs Jordana and reveals to her and Vin that Lucas is an undercover cop. Lucas, instead, handcuffs Johnson to the spoiler of Jordana's Scion tC and walks away with Vin and Jordana while Johnson struggles to grab his bottle of baby oil on the ground. With the cash stowed in the trunks, Lucas and Vin agree to one more race, with Jordana's unborn baby at stake. However, de la Sol arrives, demanding the return of his money, but is run over by a squad car with Michelle and Canaro making out. Lucas, Vin, and Jordana then race off, with Vin arguing with the GPS device after it directs him to a wig shop.
Critical reception
Joe Leydon of Variety commented on his review of the film that "Superfast! takes aim at easy targets, and misses by miles." Martin Tsai of the Los Angeles Times commented on his review that "While fans can appreciate all the winks and nudges, the film is a wreck for the uninitiated." Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com gave the film a score of two out of 10, calling it "a brain-dead endeavor, with the helmers returning to their comfort zone of head bonks and fart noises, even throwing in two incidents where a character is struck out of the blue by a speeding car. Perhaps Friedberg and Seltzer are vaudeville enthusiasts. Perhaps they can’t dream up an original joke to save their lives. Either way, Superfast is steamrolled by painfully obvious stupidity that’s never funny."
Synopsis
Superfast!, a parody of The Fast and the Furious franchise, is directed by gurus of satire, Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and stars Alex Ashbaugh as Officer Lucas White, an undercover cop who infiltrates an illegal street-racing gang led by Vin Serento (Dale Pavinski ). In the works is a plan to rob Juan Carlos de la Sol (Omar Chaparro), a dangerous crime kingpin who, interestingly, keeps his loot in a fast-food restaurant.
Movie Review of Superfast! 2015
Filmmakers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer ran out of gas a long time ago as aggressively madcap movie spoofers. (Not that they had much in the tank to begin with – remember, we’re talking about the pair who gave us “Vampires Suck,” “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans.”) But they’re still spinning their wheels, even while stuck in a rut, and continuing to produce lamely unfunny drivel such as “Superfast!,” a low-octane goof on the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Much like “The Starving Games” (2013), heretofore the nadir of their careers, their latest opus is receiving only a limited theatrical release — during the opening weekend of monster hit “Furious 7” — concurrent with its VOD debut. But, really, some theatrical releases can never be limited enough.
This time out, Friedberg and Seltzer keep their freewheeling pop-culture digressions to a minimum, preferring to concentrate almost exclusively on the primary object of their affliction. Trouble is, it’s hard to make fun of a franchise that already has embraced enough outrageous excess to qualify as self-parody. Indeed, it could be argued that, by this point in the “Fast and Furious” series, Dwayne Johnson can earn more laughs with a few seconds of artful eyebrow arching than Friedberg and Seltzer manage throughout the entirety of their mercilessly protracted 99-minute comedy.
It may come as a relief to anyone who samples this swill that the filmmakers refrain from making jokes of any sort about tragic death of “Fast and Furious” mainstay Paul Walker. On the other hand, they don’t do the late actor any favors by representing his signature Brian O’Conner character as Lucas White, a clueless undercover cop who must transcend his conspicuously Caucasian orientation to infiltrate a multiethnic gang of car thieves, illegal auto racers and Bed, Bath & Beyond gift-card counterfeiters.
Alex Ashbaugh appears to be channeling Jim Carrey in “Dumb and Dumber” mode throughout most of the movie as White wins the confidence of Vin Serento (Dale Pavinski), the bald and burly gang leader; Michelle (Andrea Navedo), Vin’s main squeeze, whose sexual ambiguity is intended to be screamingly hilarious (but isn’t); and Jordana (Lili Mirojnick), Vin’s sister, a fuzzily defined character that barely passes muster as caricature.
The filmmakers come up with the mildly amusing idea of filling out the gang with generic types identified only by their labels: Cool Asian Guy (Chris Pang), Rapper Cameo (Rogello Douglas Jr.) and Model Turned Actress (Chanel Celaya). And to give credit where it is due, supporting players Dio Johnson and Omar Chaparro warrant an approving smile or two for their industrial-strength overplaying as, respectively, a well-oiled hardass cop named Rock Johnson (get it?) and a Hispanic crime boss with anger-management issues.
Time and again, however, “Superfast!” takes aim at easy targets, and misses by miles
Filmmakers Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer ran out of gas a long time ago as aggressively madcap movie spoofers. (Not that they had much in the tank to begin with – remember, we’re talking about the pair who gave us “Vampires Suck,” “Disaster Movie” and “Meet the Spartans.”) But they’re still spinning their wheels, even while stuck in a rut, and continuing to produce lamely unfunny drivel such as “Superfast!,” a low-octane goof on the “Fast and Furious” franchise. Much like “The Starving Games” (2013), heretofore the nadir of their careers, their latest opus is receiving only a limited theatrical release — during the opening weekend of monster hit “Furious 7” — concurrent with its VOD debut. But, really, some theatrical releases can never be limited enough.
This time out, Friedberg and Seltzer keep their freewheeling pop-culture digressions to a minimum, preferring to concentrate almost exclusively on the primary object of their affliction. Trouble is, it’s hard to make fun of a franchise that already has embraced enough outrageous excess to qualify as self-parody. Indeed, it could be argued that, by this point in the “Fast and Furious” series, Dwayne Johnson can earn more laughs with a few seconds of artful eyebrow arching than Friedberg and Seltzer manage throughout the entirety of their mercilessly protracted 99-minute comedy.
It may come as a relief to anyone who samples this swill that the filmmakers refrain from making jokes of any sort about tragic death of “Fast and Furious” mainstay Paul Walker. On the other hand, they don’t do the late actor any favors by representing his signature Brian O’Conner character as Lucas White, a clueless undercover cop who must transcend his conspicuously Caucasian orientation to infiltrate a multiethnic gang of car thieves, illegal auto racers and Bed, Bath & Beyond gift-card counterfeiters.
Alex Ashbaugh appears to be channeling Jim Carrey in “Dumb and Dumber” mode throughout most of the movie as White wins the confidence of Vin Serento (Dale Pavinski), the bald and burly gang leader; Michelle (Andrea Navedo), Vin’s main squeeze, whose sexual ambiguity is intended to be screamingly hilarious (but isn’t); and Jordana (Lili Mirojnick), Vin’s sister, a fuzzily defined character that barely passes muster as caricature.
The filmmakers come up with the mildly amusing idea of filling out the gang with generic types identified only by their labels: Cool Asian Guy (Chris Pang), Rapper Cameo (Rogello Douglas Jr.) and Model Turned Actress (Chanel Celaya). And to give credit where it is due, supporting players Dio Johnson and Omar Chaparro warrant an approving smile or two for their industrial-strength overplaying as, respectively, a well-oiled hardass cop named Rock Johnson (get it?) and a Hispanic crime boss with anger-management issues.
Time and again, however, “Superfast!” takes aim at easy targets, and misses by miles
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