"Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, dying time is here"
So this movie is set even further into the future, officially after World War 3. And it is completely different than the first two movies. But kind of similar too.
We start off by seeing desert, and a car drawn by camels (dromedarys?). First it makes you think it's weird, but it is the logical conclusion since in Mad Max II they where fighting about fuel, so that they are now even shorter on fuel is only logical. Then the car gets kidnapped by the Gyro Capt.... no, not him, just the same actor, Bruce Spence. He is Jedediah the Pilot and went up from Gyrocopters to real planes. And who was the owner of the car? Mad Max (Mel Gibson, for all who still don't know), who now has long hair.
Since his car got stolen he walks to Bartertown, led by Aunty (Tina Turner). This town is the crazyness of Mad Max combined with the crazyness of Mad Max II. And we find out soon it is fueled by pig shit.
Through different circumstances he ends up exiled and after, the movie takes a big turn as he meets a group of kids a la Lord of the flies, but they didn't just land there, they where there for approximately all their freaking life.
Soo, I don't wanna spoil anything, just wanted to mention those points of the story, I don't think I spoiled too much.
This movie is awesome. I really loved it. I wouldn't say it's a Mad Max movie, the name Max is only uttered once and never is he truly mad. But it's the character. Also, there are barely any functioning moving cars, but don't worry, there is a big car chase that ties back to Mad Max I and II.
Even though I said I don't think it is a Mad Max movie, I gotta say it is set in that same universe. When you really think about it this all seems like the logical way to go after what we knew of the World from the first two movies. As I said, this is explicitly set after World War III and after the apocalypse that ended life as we knew it. The characters still dress crazy, but everyone does, so I guess it's all right.
I haven't mentioned one character yet, MasterBlaster. MasterBlaster is actually two people, Master, played by Angelo Rossitto, who probably had the longest career of all the small people since he was also in 1932s "Freaks", and Blaster, played by Paul Larsson. Master is small and the brain, while Blaster is tall and full of muscles, he is the body. And I love both those characters, just the idea is awesome.
And these characters also are the last point I've written down to mention: This movie is funny, much more funny than the first two. It has many fun moments, one being when Max has to put down all his weapons and it seems like he is never going to stop, pulling out one weapon after the other.
Another fun scene is when a character is hit in the face by another one with a frying pan multiple times. It made sense and still was funny.
Also, the weird kids living in their own little world have their own language/accent/whateveryouwannacallit. They speak English and you understand it, but they have lots of grammatical errors, which, I guess, happens when you live your whole life without learning grammar. I thought the language was well worked out and seemed like it could really be a language people would end up speaking.
All in all I gotta say I loved this movie as much as the other two, but I did for totally different reasons. And when I see the trailer for Fury Road I get a feeling it will have many elements from this movie (desert setting, the buildup of the cars and the general look of the people), but hopefully it will also have stuff from the other movies.
I loved this movie and yes, I'm giving every movie of this trilogy 5 stars. I hope I will be able to give 5 stars to Fury Road, too.
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