Fast Hobbs Takes On Furious Shaw in Action Packed New Trailer, Includes Haka

When the first teaser for the film came out in February, the general feeling was that the spin-off to the highly successful street-racing movie franchise is a foray into the realm of the ridiculous. Now that’s we’ve seen this first trailer, that feeling is even more pronounced.

Officially titled Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw, the movie's plot calls for U.S. Diplomatic Security Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) to join forces with his enemy from previous films, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). Their goal is to defeat Brixton (Idris Elba), an enhanced human-borderline superhero-borderline cyborg.

This latest installment of the franchise, even if it is a spinoff, marks the ultimate departure from the original narrative of the first two or three films, a departure that has been consistently announced by the last few films.

The original movies were all about street racing and were based on a 1998 article in VIBE magazine depicting the legal or less so street racing phenomenon in New York. Slowly, as the franchise became increasingly successful, cars and drivers were cast into supporting roles for spies, tanks, helicopters, submarines and one wicked Charlize Theron.

Hobbs and Shaw clearly has no relation to the original Fast and Furious, but at least it seems fun to watch. Incredibly fun, actually, as the chemistry between Johnson and Statham seems to be working wonders, and some of the scenes shown are epic in their ridiculousness.

It’s unclear how the separate stories of Hobbs will be woven back into the main and increasingly inconsistent Fast and Furious storyline.