Dude, this movie really sucked!

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2002)

Sorry to add yet another "pan" of this turkey, but it is so bad that it deserves all the abuse that can be heaped on it.
The plot isn't even worthy of a WB TV series. The characters are not developed at all. One would think that a movie of this ilk would try to explain the racers' motivation, history, basically why they are so fixated on hot-rodding Japanese cars that were intended to be reliable, overpriced, boring transportation for young women (i.e., Honda Civics).
Furthermore, to my recollection nearly all the cars raced were front-drivers, making the film's "Holy Grail" of a ten second quarter mile ludicrous. Any front-driver with enough power to run a ten second quarter mile would disintegrate its front tires on launch.
I did kind of like the plastic bad guys, totally evil and destructive for no apparent reason. They were funny.