Mad Max: Fury Road

I'm guessing that "Mad Max: Fury Road" director George Miller is a 12-year-old boy, since he co-wrote the script and it's top to bottom a 'tween boy's wet dream: skinheads with goofy names (Nux, Slit and Rictus Erectus) that spastically fuck shit up, nubile chicks wearing shards of see-through muslin, a vehicle just for Kodo drummers and a guitar player shredding in front a stack of Marshall amps, nihilism for days, and a two-hour car chase.

Well, the first half of the film is a chase, reports a Blu-ray extra featurette, and the second half is a race, as if that makes any difference.

For the fourth outing of the long-lived franchise, you would have thought that a reason would have been generated for a post-apocalyptic world, where water, gas and energy sources are precious, that denizens would figure out not to drive cars all the time, stop using pyrotechnics during these full-throttle adventures, and find a better water delivery system than an overhead deluge.

Charlize Theron collects a paycheck as Imperator Furiosa, smuggling aforementioned scantily clad bimbo breeders away from the Citadel to the "green place" of her birth. Max Rockatansky (sigh), played by Tom Hardy, ends up coming to her rescue, as men should (right?), after he escapes being a blood bank for young huffer Nux (Nicholas Hoult).

Pursued by scores of Neo-Nazi-types, the group makes it as far as a group of crones, The Vulvalini (seriously?), then, of course, makes the genius decision to return from whence they came.

There's a lot of furious features, including "Maximum Fury: Filming 'Fury Road,'" "Mad Max: Fury on Four Wheels," "The Road Warriors: Max and Furiosa," "The Tools of the Wasteland" (note: not about T.S. Eliot), "The Five Wives: So Shiny, So Chrome," and "Fury Road: Crash and Smash."

The six-plus-month shoot took place primarily in sandy, windy, dusty, deserted and freezing Namibia, with limited CGI in the final product, and 140 real vehicles that really crashed. An interviewee said, "It's like opera, big and expansive."

One accurately describes the entire enterprise as "sitting in a truck while people attack you," also noting that they are "actually on the road to redemption." A little too on the nose, and a lot of overkill.

"Mad Max: Fury Road"
Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
$19.99
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