Speed Racer (Widescreen Edition) | Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci

Speed Racer (Widescreen Edition) | Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci | Speed can be very addicting....

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Speed Racer (Wides...

	Speed Racer (Widescreen Edition) Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci Warner Home Video, 2008 average customer review:based on 146 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An over-the-top, sensory overload experience determined to replicate its frantic, television-anime origins, Speed Racer is wild enough to induce a headache or wow a viewer with one dazzling effect after another. Adapted for the big screen as a live-action feature, Speed Racer is written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the sibling team behind the intensely satisfying The Matrix and its busier, less interesting sequels. Where the rich mythmaking of The Matrix was entirely accessible, however, Speed Racer's overwhelming and gratuitously complicated story exposition is an enormous challenge to follow, let alone embrace. After a while, one simply surrenders to the unbroken din of dialogue concerning corporate chicanery, corruption in the sport of racing, and a value conflict between racing as a family business versus multinational cash cow. At the same time, the film's hyper-real equivalent of the old Speed Racer cartoon's great whoosh of color, motion, and edgy production design--such as inventive uses of scene-changing wipes, bold framing, shifting perspectives--are more overbearing than fun.

Emile Hirsch plays Speed Racer, younger brother of a deceased racing legend, Rex, and son of car designer Pops (John Goodman). The latter invented Speed's Mach 5, and is singularly unimpressed by an offer from a giant conglomerate that would lock Speed into exclusive racing services. Speed opts instead for family loyalty, incurring the wrath of the conglomerate's unctuous head (Roger Allam). With family honor on the line and the affections of girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) behind him, Speed hits the track in hopes of fulfilling his destiny as a master racer. The cast is largely enjoyable, including Susan Sarandon as Speed's mom, Matthew Fox as mysterious Racer X, and a pair of chimps as the irrepressible Chim-Chim. All well and good, but in a movie that lives or dies by the excitement level of races that look like computer-animated Hot Wheels action, Speed Racer is a dreary adventure. --Tom Keogh

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Speed Racer (Widescreen Edition)

Great Movie! Lots of action and color. Looks awesome in HD! Great story and sticks very true to the original cartoon. This is a great family movie! Definately Recommend!

Speed can be very addicting....

Wow! This film was everything I wanted it to be. I remembered see the horrible trailers and still being drawn in to see it. Unfortunately I didn't see it in theater because I allowed my boyfriend to talk me out of it, NEVER again! I saw the film in Blue-Ray and ate it up. I won't summarize the film because you can find that info. elsewhere.

First of all the imagery was out of this world, and I think it should have been. This film is literally a cartoon come to life, so the colors are very saturated and intense, but for me it wasn't distracting, it let me know how this film was going to be approached and it allowed me to leave the real world behind and enjoy what was unfolding before me.

The characters, ALL of them, where so endearing. So people said that they were two dimensional, but I didn't feel that way at all. I don't feel that people need to 'fall' and realize their mistakes to be real. I love the fact that Speed is true to himself and what he believes in and fights for that. I love that Trixie loved and accepted Speed for who he was. That his parents where adults and allowed their kids to have their own lives and believed in them. And Spritle and Chim-Chim were fun characters, they were never annoying to me. I love the fact that you have good-good guys and bad-bad guys. I feel that America movie industry is turning more dark in theme and America loves it and wants it to go that way. This feel is very uplifting and inspiring for me and because it breaks the mold people get mad.

I think the film was PERFECT in its length, nothing should be taken out. To understand the characters and why they make the decisions they do, you need that interaction with them, I LOVE all the races, they are visually stimulating and have enough on-the-edge-of-your-seat action. I think it is strange that people say they could sit through it all because I see people and hear people set through TV show marathons, or watch shows that are 1 hour shows back to back all the time.

The music is perfect for the film, it gets your motors running, excuse the pun. It allows you to know what is going on, which characters to look out for and such, but with out being in your face about it. It intensifies the drama and the action. Great all around.

I think this movie should be seen at least once, if it doesn't grab you then fine, but at least give it the chance it deserves. I believe this movie will become appreciated more and more as time goes by. I feel like it's legs where cut from below it before it had a chance to prove its self because of poor marketing, bad release date, and people just adverse to it, not knowing or having seen it.

*stand up and pumps fist* GO SPEED! GO!

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Cheaters Never Prosper

A visually appealing updating of a late-1960s TV anime that had 52 episodes, the movie tackles a contemporary and controversial issue in motor sports; a family business being wedged out of the game by the huge dollars of multi-national corporations. And with that theme comes the tug-of-war between fairness and corruption, on and off the track.

Clocking in at a bulky 135 minutes, actor Emile Hirsch does a credible job as Speed Racer, while John Goodman (Pops) is the talented driver's father and car designer in a family business. The plot bogs down, though, due to multiple story lines which do not enhance what should have been a powerful theme of family values and the quest for truth on a track of lies.

In life imitating art, a promotional tie-in was with NASCAR's Petty Enterprises, as its famous #43 car advertised the movie in a race. That family-operated business recently took on a major investor because it has struggled to compete against teams with major corporate backing.

Though it may not take the checkered-flag, the movie has some high spots that keeps it from running out of gas before the end of the race.

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Headache enducing but worth watching once

This movie gave me a big headache. So much crap going on so quickly for over two hours got a little old. This movie is perfect for ADHD kids whose concentration only lasts for a short period of time but for the rest of us it becomes vomit enducing to sit through this film.

The things I liked about this film is the cool graphics and race car scenes. The plot was a little thin but that's okay for a Speed Racer show. I thought some of the acting was really good with John Goodman and the main evil dude. I liked how this was very family friendly. Not a lot of over the top violence, no sex and very little, if any, swearing.

The things I didn't like about the film is that the film was a little too busy with too much going on the screen at the same time. (maybe I shouldn't have watched it when I had the flu). I thought that Speed Racer's brother and the monkey were a little lame as well.

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