Oscar contender- Fast Five:

I'm sick and have been bad about posting so I'm re-posting this in honor of the recent reports of another installment of this amazing franchise. Also, I just watched this as a method of eastern medicine to help my cold...I'm very new age.

Not only is this movie just as amusing and thrill packed as the first one (when my young heart first  first fell for stoic Dominic Toretto) but when it takes place in the always sultry, yet corrupt, city of Rio it becomes a top notch action movie that is best enjoyed when you go alone, on a Wednesday, after the gym? It is a must see if just for the fight sequence between The Rock and Vin Diesel.  It was like a Jersey Shore girl's wet dream. I laughed, I cried (from laughter) and I was scared due to the excessive testosterone and arm pit sweat. 

I was pleased that for once a hot Asian dude got the even hotter Israeli girl who for some reason was playing a Mexican drug lord's girlfriend in the last one? Anyway I will say Vin is a better actor than Paul...why? Well, rent The Boiler Room a really awesome gambling, insider trading, bros looking out for bros in this 2000 drama...and why is Paul bad? Oh I don't know because in real life he is 37 and is engaged to a 21 year old..whom he proposed to at 16!!!!!!!!!!! I rest my case

Things to ponder while you watch this move..Mia is pregnant...and yet she falls through a poorly roofed tin home at a 20 foot drop and her bambino is fine? Magic sperm Paul, magic.  That is one pretty bad ass fetus.  How does Mia just happen to speak Portuguese.  How do they get down to Brazil if they are wanted fugitives? Did they drive, did they fly with fake passports? Most likely they rude down south on Falcor...actually fairly logical for this movie. 

The number one reason I love this movie is the same reason I love The Bachelorette...for the last 3 minutes of the show when they depict the intense bromance that is going on behind the scenes...I love guys being cute with each other without them knowing they are being so adorable. Slapping each other on the head, rough housing, stabbing guys with crow bars...well not on The Bachelorette (maybe on The Bachelor..those bitches be crazy). 

All in all I found myself giddy through the whole 2 hours and glided home on a cloud, blissfully unaware of the potential rat attack that seems almost imminent on trash days.  My only regret? I didnt get to see it in 3D.

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