TURAN: Tokyo Drift is the story of an American hot-rodder who ends up in Japan and has to learn a new style of racing. (Soundbite of movie “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift”) It's an unintentionally amusing movie, intended for those infatuated with gleaming metal and preening women.
Unlike Pixar's Cars, this one has real actors, sort of. Think of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift as a high-energy cartoon about fast cars and the boys who love them. Los Angeles Times and MORNING EDITION film critic Kenneth Turan says this new flick is running on a different track. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift roared into theaters over the weekend. The animated film Cars is not the only automotive movie tearing up screens this summer.
