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    Fast. Furious. Funny?

    With <em>F9</em>, the <em>Fast and Furious</em> franchise shows it still knows how to entertain. But it has never pulled more from the <em>Looney Tunes</em> playbook.
    by Shirley Li Jun 25, 2021 3 minutes
    Source: Universal Pictures

    Every movie strains credulity, but shatters it so completely, even the production’s own characters have noticed. In the ninth main installment of one of Universal’s , Dominic Toretto (played by Vin Diesel) and his trusty band of drag-racing ex-cons are so indestructible that they ride out bullets, land mines, and the void of outer space. (I repeat: Outer. Space.) No wonder the crew member Roman (Tyrese Gibson) starts questioning whether they’re immortal. “We are not ,” he asserts at one point, holding up his bullet-hole-ridden shirt

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