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Page 1 of 1  The 2001 crunch-a-thon, "The Fast and the Furious,"
cleverly repackaged all the cliches and conventions of the '50s
teenage hot-rod movie and came up with a surprise box-office and
critical hit that launched the careers of Vin Diesel and (to a
lesser extent) Paul Walker.  The $100 million-plus sequel, "2
Fast 2 Furious," plays like an unusually bad, overblown episode
of "Miami Vice," and has virtually none of the pleasures of the
original. It's the worst sequel to a pretty good movie since
last summer's "Men in Black II."  There's a handful of daring
stunts and the scale has been jacked way up (so in the climax we
see 200 cars instead of 20) but there's nothing new or
captivating and it's hard to imagine anyone sitting through it
but small boys juiced by the n