1 review
An entry in a very consistent series. The "Truck Rascals" movies are pure lowbrow entertainment products, meant to painlessly occupy an hour and three quarters of your time. You can expect them to contain destructive farcical brawls; the humiliation of bullies and law enforcement officers; road chases in which multiple police vehicles are crashed; travelogue sequences of local color, scenery and festivals; and moments of tearjerking sentimentality. The likeable but dimwitted protagonist Momojiro is a Holy Fool who will instantly fall for a woman way out of his class and attempt to impress her in ways which only embarrass him. Ultimately someone will have to drive a long way very rapidly to beat a specific time limit. There will be bizarre and surreal comedic instances, like someone being frozen solid or roasted whole like a turkey, at least one brief scene of female shirtlessness, and at some point someone will need to go to the bathroom real bad right now. This could serve as a standard description of any one of the series. This episode is enhanced by the appearance of Tomisaburo Wakayama as a reformed alcoholic whose broken family is restored by the efforts of Momojiro and his sidekick Jonathan, whose lusty wife and ten children make their accustomed appearance in the events. At this writing, more of these films than you would ever care to watch may be found by searching for Truck Yaro at the internet archive, and this is as good as any of them. If you need to be entertained in a slightly exotic manner without the inconvenience of having to follow a plot, this will do the trick.