The ending was quite unlikely, but it was the kind of ending Hollywood likes...going out with a bang! (like Bonnie & Clyde, Butch & Sundance, etc...)

Be thankful though. Without that ending we might by now have seen "Thema & Louise II - (This Time It's Personal)" and "Thelma & Louise III - The Final Confrontation". Geena Davis would probably have had the good sense to bail out after number 2, and we'd have to put up with someone else playing her in the last one which would be so absolutely rotten in every way that it would finally kill the whole franchise deader than the bad guy in the first movie.

- LH