Hobbs & Shaw Trailer Reaction: 6 Ups & 3 Downs

Downs...

3. "Fast & Furious Presents"

Hobbs And Shaw Fast And Furious Presents
Universal

It was recently announced that the movie's full title is in fact Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, a clunky moniker that's less concerned with rolling off the tongue and more with bolstering its brand identity.

Just about anybody with a pulse will quickly realise that this is a Fast & Furious spin-off regardless, but because studios always assume the worst of audiences - and in fairness, sometimes they're right - we're left with this insultingly generic title.

Everyone hated "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and we all cringed at "The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story", so if Universal really needed the franchise namesake included in the title, why not just call it Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw?

It's a minor nitpick all things considered, but just makes the movie feel like a commodity from the jump, rather than the fun time that it totally appears to be otherwise.

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