Sensory overload!!

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2015)

Mad Max: Fury Road is a triumphant realisation of all that is possible on the big screen. The explosions, the violence, the sounds!! Forget all that you think you know about blockbuster action movies. This is it!! Okay, let's pump the brakes for a second. What makes a classic movie? Storyline and dialogue. Sure, but we'll have none of that here thank you! Not necessary!! Don't get me wrong, I love a good, cleverly written movie with witty dialogue and an interesting premise, plus a dash of quirkiness. But, although 'Mad Max' is indeed interesting it doesn't have or need any of that other stuff. This is visual story telling in its most basic and pure form. It is little more than a car chase through the desert spanning a couple of days and destroying countless vehicles and lives along the way. And it is beyond epic. This is quite possibly the most action packed movie I have ever seen. At times it borders on complete sensory overload. There is just so much awesome stuff going on (including a gimp chained to a truck playing a flame throwing guitar!!). And ladies, yes, you should be going to see this with your boyfriend/husband/significant other. Hell, go with the girls. The thing is this: I don't remember ever seeing a movie with so many strong female characters in it kicking serious arse. True, many of them are insanely hot, but some are also old and wrinkly. All are awesome. Girl power all the way. I would be so darn happy if I went to see this again and there were big groups of girls going to celebrate having a vag and an attitude in this high speed desert pursuit rather than the formulaic, clichéd bullshit that is 'Pitch Perfect 2'. Sorry, I just don't care how funny Fat Amy is. Director George Miller deserves to be knighted. Or, at the very least, he should be given his own reality TV show where he gets to judge the everyday functions of everyday people in a situation that makes it seem somehow not mundane, thereby becoming the most popular personality on TV. The guy is a saint. When I first heard they were making a new Mad Max a thousand years after 'Thunderdome' I was highly skeptical. No way could he pull this off. No way could he make this relevant. Modern audiences won't appreciate it. What's he gonna do? Have an old Mel Gibson? Oh wait, Tom Hardy is going to play Max and it's going to be set around the same time as the original movies??? I dunno man I have never been so happy to be wrong about a movie. The theme song from the Lego movie belongs here now. Everything is awesome. Quite simply, this is the best movie I've seen this year. Go see it. 9.5/10 See all our reviews at www.facebook.com/shenaniganmoviereviews