"Fast & Furious" ** (out of four): Following in the skid marks of its predecessors, this fourth installment of auto erotica reunites the original cast for one more go around the track.

And so continues one of the more playfully-named franchises in recent memory. After 2001's Vin Diesel-Paul Walker monosyllabathon "The Fast and the Furious", there was the Diesel-less, John Singleton-directed follow-up "2 Fast 2 Furious". Then the series ventured into Asian fusion with 2006's squealing "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift". For the fourth entry in the auto erotic franchise, the filmmakers have opted to dispense with those pesky articles and simply title it "Fast & Furious" (the ampersand makes it even faster!). Personally, I would have preferred "The Fast and the Four-ious", but that's just me.

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