WORDS Fatimah Alaya Kenny
You are in the arms of the one you completely trust, love, and adore. He tells you that you are utterly perfect and teases you about what a sight for sore eyes you are (which is really code for how beautiful you are). But what if you realised that the person whose lips you kissed was part of multiple bank robberies ─ would you still be in love with the person you know now? Could you look beyond the tattered pages that hold their troubled past and embrace the new person they are now?
Charles Bronson (Dax Shepard) is under witness protection, but his designated marshall can barely control his family pick-up van let alone protect a human being. The hysterics involve Marshall Andie Randison (Tom Arnold) shooting his weapon while freewheeling his van, and successfully frightening two young girls who will probably need therapy for the rest of their adolescent lives. He also possesses the most insane app, which pin points the nearest single person in a one mile radius. No rest for the wicked! As if that’s not enough to be dealing with, Bronson’s past comes back to haunt him in the form of his ex-best friend Alex (Bradley Cooper). If an uncoordinated man running after his mini-van shooting it to a halt doesn’t amuse you, then how about Bradley Cooper in blonde dredds?
Perfect, if what you are looking for is an awesome pick-me-up full of laughs after a tough week.
Dax Shepard as Charles Branson (or ‘Yul Perrkins’) and Kristen Bell as Annie Bean perfectly personify the sweet world of lovers totally immersed in each other, butand the film reminds us of how our pasts can come back knocking on our doors when we least expect it. The film is, at heart, a cheesy tale of how love conquers all ─ yet it is distinguished especially by its inclusion of animal cars, from a Lincon 700-hp with coilover suspension, huge stunt disk brakes and line-lock, to an electric blue off road F1 truck. The soundtrack is the perfect mix, with old world tracks such as Jimmy Soul’s If You Wanna Be Happy and latino rhythms from Santana, all mixed in with high-energy tracks like Aerosmith’s classic Sweet Emotion to add an extra vroom to the car chase scenes.
Yes, it has a happy ending. If what you are looking for is an awesome pick-me-up full of laughs after a tough week, the sporadic fighting, noses oozing blood, savage cars and sweet background music make this film perfect.
