Courteous and Savage

It’s time to play the music. It’s time to light the lights. It’s time to meet the Muppets in this year’s installment of the beloved franchise, Muppets Most Wanted. This time around, the effects budget is (slightly) bigger, and the celebrity cameos (considerably) more plentiful, but is the humor just as sharp and absurd as what we’ve come to love?

Fast cars. Illegal street racing. Family and revenge. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? No, Fast and Furious Seven hasn’t come out yet; we’re talking about Need for Speed, the first film entry of Electronic Arts’ long-racing video game franchise, best known for taking players off the speedway and onto the highway, where commuters sharing the road and police in hot pursuit provide as much hazard to vict