Speed Racer

5/9/20082h 15m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ A world built for speed. ~

Overview:

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.

Director:

Lana Wachowski

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$120,000,000.00

Revenue:

$93,900,000.00

Key words:

car race
loss of loved one
chimp
family
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woman director
live action remake
based on tv series
euphoric

Cast

Emile Hirsch

~ as ~

Speed Racer

Christina Ricci

~ as ~

Trixie

John Goodman

~ as ~

Pops Racer

Susan Sarandon

~ as ~

Mom Racer

Matthew Fox

~ as ~

Racer X

Benno Fürmann

~ as ~

Inspector Detector

Hiroyuki Sanada

~ as ~

Mr. Musha

Rain

~ as ~

Taejo Togokahn

Richard Roundtree

~ as ~

Ben Burns

Karl Yune

~ as ~

Taejo Body Guard

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Reviews (1)

W
Wehrmacht
Written 4 year(s) ago
4
The only people who'll enjoy this Attention-Deficit-Disorder nightmare are those who've never seen an episode of the original anime in their lives. In other words, children.

Sure, there's some fun to be had for adults in seeing how all of the well-known characterisations from your own childhood have been lobotomised by their modern, live action counterparts.

Ultimately, though, you'll come to the conclusion that "Speed" was what the director(s) were on when they spliced together 120 minutes worth of 3-second zoom/pan/sensory-overload scenes.

Your eyes, and very probably your brain, will be dissolving by the end of this acid trip, so exhausting are the visuals. It's almost as if they wanted to go the complete opposite of the original series' sparsely-detailed animation by packing every single frame as full of colour & movement & distraction & pointlessness as they possibly could.

No, not almost... it's what they actually did! Adults should press their "A" button and leap over this drivel.