If you're going to make a film called Car Crash, then you better put some car crashes in it! Luckily for us, the director here is Antonio Margheriti, a man who almost always delivers the good when it comes to films called Car Crash or thereabouts.
In the US somewhere, mates Joey and Vittorio Mezzogiorno (who played a similar role in Stelvio Massi's Speed Cross) are travelling through America, taking part in demolition Derbys. Joey's just won a race and angered the local mafia, and now both have had a bit of kicking and warned that they are absolutely not to take part in the big illegal race that's happening down in Mexico. This is like a red rag to a bull for our boys, but as the Mafia took their car as a precaution, how are they supposed to enter the race?
Thus begins a road trip as our bromancing guys head for the border, get a car that only costs them the life of a dear friend, pick up a lady friend who tries to Yoko the whole deal, and get caught up in the crazy rich guy games of rich guy John Steiner and his grumpy butler. I can't tell if Steiner was great or crap in this, but his eccentric rich guy act certainly livened up the place. Can the guys get to the end of the film in time for the big destructive race?
After some slight fannying about, Margheriti kicks things into high gear as we get car chase after car chase, including Joey racing Steiner through Steiner's estate and destroying the place, fake cops trying to do a drive-by on our lads, and Joey taking on Sla Borghese in the explosion filled grand finale. I'll tell you what - my copy was pretty blurry, but Margheriti's model work was well integrated into this one - I couldn't tell what was what.
I'm sure none of this was meant to be taken remotely seriously and imagine it was just a way to make money off the back of films like Convoy and Smokey and The Bandit. We want car crashes, and we got them. Freeze frame ending too. God bless the eighties and all who crashed cars during her!
