10 Movie Universes That Make NO SENSE
2. The Fast & The Furious
The Fast and the Furious is one of the few franchises on this list to not only get away with making very little sense, but arguably benefitting from and even revelling in it.
It remains extremely difficult to reconcile that the original movie - a comparatively "realistic" heist film about a gang of petrolheads stealing VCRs - exists within the same tangible reality as F9, which includes giant magnets and rocket-powered cars apparently capable of flying to space.
The franchise is nothing if not an exercise in glorious escalation, gradually mutating itself into an increasingly silly tentpole IP focused less on urban grit and more on death-defying, CGI-assisted stunts.
The laws of physics are abandoned whenever necessary, where characters can fly through the air and land on top of a car without so much as cracking a rib.
Even the series' painfully earnest emotional throughline is ridiculous - the Family accepts Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), who they believed to have killed one of their own, into the fold without many qualms at all.
Really the only vaguely authentic aspect of the series is the dynamic between the central characters, which is basically the crutch propping up the wilfully loony storytelling and action.
Again the series totally gets away with it because it's never trying to be anything more than bonkers fun, because if you actually tried to explain the A-to-Z logic of the narrative and physics on offer, you'd go cross-eyed.