All its supposed innovative techie efforts did for me was make me dizzy and long instead for a good story.
05/15/08 03:34 PM
Speed Racer (2008)
35 %
Reviews Counted: 155 Fresh: 54 Rotten:101 Average Rating: 4.9/10
Rated: PG
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Runtime: 2 hrs 9 mins
Synopsis:
After the success of the films in the Matrix series, the Wachowski Brothers return to the director's chair with this adaptation of the classic cartoon. INTO THE WILD's Emile Hirsch jumps into the Mach 5 car as Speed Racer, while John Goodman and Susan Sarandon play his parents. Christina Ricci... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Matthew Fox
Director: Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Producer: Joel Silver, Grant Hill, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Composer: Michael Giacchino
Screenwriter: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Producer: Joel Silver, Grant Hill, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Composer: Michael Giacchino
Reviews
To complain about the excesses of Speed Racer would be like bitching that there are too many rib eyes kept on ice at your local steak house ... But visual wizardry is about all the movie has going for it.
05/15/08 10:43 AM
Messy and undisciplined, if at least always itself. But isn't this a more suitable aesthetic for an imaginary movie version of Marvel's 'Dazzler'
05/15/08 10:07 AM
The Wachowski's stand revealed -- for better or worse -- as having made something like a $100 million experimental movie.
05/14/08 09:38 AM
(Speed Racer) is one of the most colorful, visual, fun and exhilarating movies I have seen in a while.
05/13/08 09:18 PM
This is not family time, it's boredom time. Whizz, whizz, whizz, yet another car zooms past and it's less exciting than building one from Meccano. Speed Racer is a snore.
05/13/08 02:43 PM
The ultimate problem is that this is a film based on a lousy cartoon from the '60s that can only be properly called a "classic" through the muddied lens of Boomer nostalgia.
05/12/08 09:36 PM
There is something freeing about watching this movie because it establishes early on that it's not playing by certain cinematic rules.
05/12/08 09:14 PM
There's no thrill of victory and no agony of defeat here -- just more cars flying through the air...and cartwheeling before bursting into flames.
05/12/08 05:39 PM
Strictly for lovers of the original cartoon. Otherwise, it's loud, obnoxious and a mess.
05/12/08 12:34 PM
Top Critic Speed Racer creates a timeless, visually seductive world suspended somewhere between the pop '60s and the sci-fi future. Its biggest disappointment, strangely enough, is its raison d'être -- the races themselves.
05/12/08 03:15 AM
Top Critic The actors are lost amidst the orgy of pixels writhing around like the special effects equivalent of a bukkake film
05/12/08 01:11 AM
The arty blockbuster has arrived, and it's as flashy, accessorized and auto-erotic as can be. Which creates a strange sensation indeed, that it's not just the cars that are smoking, but those Wachowski brothers as well, and whatever's in their pipes too.
05/11/08 05:10 PM
I used to love the animated series, but I do remember that every episode had pretty much the same story and the movie follows suit.
05/11/08 11:53 AM
By trying to convince us that we're having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant.
05/10/08 04:55 PM
The colors in Speed Racer are ferociously bright and saturated; they don't appear in nature, but then nothing else in the movie does, either.
05/10/08 04:25 PM
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