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* [[Artistic License Physics]]: Remember when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUhE5KsJ5hk Professor Frank] said "Woke up in a car that was Tokyo Drifting everywhere?"
** See [[Rule of Cool]].
* [[A -Team Montage]]: The Racers building the Mach Six for the Grand Prix, intercut with Royalton and Musha's contract signing.
* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: The only reason for any of the cursing in the movie.
** After Speed rejects Royalton's outrageously generous but sell-out deal, (something which became a [[Hannibal Lecture]] when he realised he wasn't getting what he wanted) ''10-year-old'' Spritle gives Royalton the finger right when the elevators close!
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** The "Big Five" corporations fix races to drive up ([[Xanatos Gambit|or down]]) the price of their own stock. If Royalton's largesse is any indication, those Big Fives ''do'' have a major effect on the global economy.
* [[Setting Update]]: The film moves from [[The Sixties]] to a futuristic [[Retro Universe]], way wackier and out of this world than the original series.
* [[Shout -Out]]: The Crucible race has plenty of shout outs to the original series, even giving Speed an excuse to wear a [[Scarf of Asskicking|neckerchief]] (so he can use it to cover his mouth during the desert run). At the end of the race he jumps out and poses like in the original anime intro.
** And the plot of that part of the movie was similar to the beginning of the series.
** The auto-jacks make the exact same sound they did in the anime and work the exact same way (see [[Context Sensitive Button]] above).