Fast & Furious Spy Racers is Animated and I'm More Excited about it Than My Son Is
On the day after Christmas, I’m not going to be returning gifts or shopping the day-after sales. I’ll be sitting on my couch, happily watching a new animated series on Netflix about CARS, glorious cars.
I love action movies like The Fast & The Furious and since I’m (ostensibly) a grown-up, the adult themes are appropriate for me. Not so much, however, for my ten-year-old son. Common Sense Media says the series is “as close to an R-rated film as it can be and remain PG-13.” What I don’t love about the movies is that there is quite a bit of “women as sex objects” treatment and my son and I will be having more conversations about that as he gets into the tween and teen years.
So I’m thrilled that there is an animated series called Fast & Furious Spy Racers aimed for kids, with the fun and action and cars, but without the violence, strong language, and sexism.
Here’s the plot line of the new Fast & Furious Spy Racers, which follows in the footsteps of the movie franchise but is more kid friendly:
Tying together the Fast & Furious movie themes, Spy Racers features the teenage cousin of Vin Diesel’s character Dom. Tony Toretto (voiced by Tyler Posey) is recruited by a government agency along with his friends to infiltrate an elite racing league serving as a front for an evil crime organization called SH1FT3R.
The series is executive produced by Diesel, Neal H. Moritz, Chris Morgan, Tim Hedrick and Bret Haaland. In addition to Posey, Spy Racers features the voices of Camille Ramsey (American Vandal) as SH1FT3R underground racer Layla Gray and Luke Youngblood (Lee Jordan in Harry Potter movies) voices 13-year-old tech genius Frostee Benson. They are joined by Charlet Chung (Overwatch) as Echo and Jorge Diaz (Jane the Virgin) as Cisco Renaldo.
I’ll be tuning in!