Speed Racer Review and Trailer
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This movie is going to rock!
Here is the trailer:
Inspired by a Japanese television cartoon, itself a manga strip spin-off, Speed Racer is set in a comic-book world of nutty Grand Prix, where vehicles spin and flip round loopy courses, as if someone’s had the idea of putting dodgems onto the big dipper. Realism and gravity are non-existent.
However, the characters are played by actual actors - albeit drained of all recognisable humanity. Emile Hirsch is Speed Racer, the middle son of mechanic John Goodman and apple-pie mom Susan Sarandon. He’s dating an unusually dull Christina Ricci and pines after possibly dead elder brother Matthew Fox. There’s a kid brother, too, and a pet chimp, both of them so grating I can’t bear to describe them.
Review: `Speed Racer’ just spinning its wheels
The Wachowski brothers have tumbled into a matrix of their own with “Speed Racer,” one which has rendered them completely out of touch with the outside world.
At two hours and 15 minutes, it’s way too long for little kids, the only ones for whom this explosion at a crayon factory would seem even vaguely entertaining. Adults seeking the nostalgia of their own childhood will just be disappointed, because “Speed Racer” the movie bears little resemblance to “Speed Racer” the TV cartoon.
And even racing fans will have trouble following the races, because they’re edited in such a way that it’s impossible to tell who’s in the lead, who’s gaining and where the finish line is (not to mention that the Wachowskis have obliterated the laws of gravity and physics, therefore negating the sport’s innate logic). With “The Matrix” trilogy, this tactic of toying with reality was considered bold and innovative, and it put the notoriously reclusive Wachowskis on the map — whether they wanted to be there or not. Here, it just feels distractingly nonsensical, which makes it hard for the audience to connect with the material.
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