As the world fell, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers and falls into the hands of a great Biker Horde led by the Warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland they come across the Citadel presided over by The Immortan Joe. While the two Tyrants war for dominance, Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home. —Furiosa movie

Let’s start with this: It’s all teenage Furiosa’s fault! Her kidnapping, her mother’s death, the whole fuxn booboo. Poor impulse control. Fuxn teeniegrrl. 😦 Ok, with that out of the way, young and stupid Furiosa was very very nicely acted by Alyla Browne. ’nuff of that.

Into the movie! What’s there to say? It’s a fever dream, a nightmare, sexyness, vehicle porn, swashbuckling adventures – a cartoon banned onto celluloid. And there is nothing wrong with that idea. Nothing. Some weaknesses in the execution – like bad CGI, cheesy monologues, more packaging than content – and none of that matters. I refuse to discuss the finer details of a Mad Max movie, with or without Mad Max. These are flicks you watch for the spectacle, for the vehicle porn, the relentless action, the brutal lifestyle of the post-apocalyptic wastelands. Not for the future-historical context.

Did we need a Furiosa origin story? As much as a second asshole. But who cares, this was a fun fun fun movie. 2:38h runtime – and not a single second of boredom! Cannot expect much more from a movie in the context of 2024 a.d. Was this for everyone? Noooo! Mad Max flix were always made specifically for the 12 y/o boy inside us all.

Yes, us all!

Come on, don’t you have that little wanker inside you, too? I know I have. And he was a very happy lil bugger, and satisfied with this Mad Max Saga without Mad Max.

Why?

Becoz he’s 12 years old, horny aaf and lurves to perv at lush women instead of macho men. As long as they are badasses on their bikes and can shoot guns all is okay in my 12 y/old’s world.

One word about Anya Taylor-Joy: Love her – loathe her, it doesn’t change a thing. Hubby is smitten, I – as the grumpy missus – need to view her more critically. But the young lady is lately in each and every movie, so we couldn’t escape her if we tried. She’s a pretty versatile actrice, can do everything, plus she got The Eyes! And as we know good acting is all in the eyes. Body language, speech patterns aren’t as important as The Eyes. And particularly Taylor-Joy’s facial features and eyes make her the perfect cartoon figure.

For my conscious reviewer part, I enjoyed Chris Hemsworth‘s Dementus. I’d protested if the make-up team would try to glue that fuxn fake nose on my pretty visage, Chris was obvsly a good sport about it. And he played his role nice and hammy, as it should be in flicks like this.

CONCLUSION: Don’t let the Mad Max geeks tell you this ain’t good. Come on, not two MM movies are alike or similar. Up to now every rendition was vastly different from the others. And continuity’s never been anything MM audiences would bother with.

Not a perfect movie, but a perfect MM movie. Great entertainment!