Vroooooom!

If that's what you like in a movie, this one's got plenty -- loud, amphetamine-quick and, well, fast and furious action.

	Credit, Post-Gazette Lucas Black is the latest to get behind the wheel for "The Fast and the Furious" franchise. Click photo for larger image. 'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift' Rating: PG-13 for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content. Starring: Lucas Black. Director: Justin Lin. Web site: www.thefastandthefurious3.com Family Film Guide

If you like credible dialogue and story line, too, park it at home. The third installment of Universal's testosterone-laced street-racing franchise has all the smarts and sophistication of a lug nut.

An arrogant 16-year-old who won't stop racing the family car is given a choice: Move to Japan to live with his conservative military dad or go to jail. In Tokyo, he endures culture shock, finds a cute girl and accelerates toward the teen street-racing scene, in which young racially stereotyped Asians with no visible means of support go head to head in shiny, custom, $100,000 machines.

In cramped Tokyo and its suburbs, it's all about the "drift." With no flat mile-long strips around, the drivers race up parking-garage ramps and down the steep, hairpin curves of mountain roads, accelerating into the turns to the point where the tires spin freely and the hot rod "drifts" on burned rubber.

The misplaced American gets caught up in the dangerous Yakuza, the Japanese mafia, and boldly offers to settle the score once and for all with -- you guessed it -- a race.

Something resembling a script would have come in handy here. And the verbal interplay among characters could have been written by any male high school motorhead wannabe.

Lucas Black ("Sling Blade," "Cold Mountain," "Friday Night Lights") goes along for the ride as the American bad boy. There are no standout performances among the cast.

That said, the beauty of Universal's franchise is that its target audience doesn't care about expensive stuff like directors, stars or the fine art of filmmaking. Each independent installment is directed and stars different people, and all that holds the films together is the "vroooooom!"

The motorhead wannabes who could have written "Tokyo Drift" want four things: fast cars in crash-'em-up action, cleavage, loud rock and rap, and cleavage -- not necessarily in that order. Director Justin Lin teases them with a well-placed celebrity cameo and gives them everything they want in a movie -- and cleavage.

Vroooooom!