If you’ve seen the trailer, then you’ve already got a taste of it, but basically this is a live-action cartoon. The visual effects and the super-saturated colors aren’t just in the racing scenes - the whole movie looks like a photoshop layout. To be honest, it kind of bothered me at first. Thankfully, the story and acting is good enough that I quickly stopped caring. The movie is peppered with references to the cartoon, and it’s genuinely funny. The cast is excellent, and while they’re a bit one-dimensional, they’re pretty direct copies of their cartoon characters, so it’s to be expected. John Goodman especially stole the show for me - his character is great, always harrumphing and grunting around. As far as I’m concerned, this movie is excellent, and it almost redeems the Wachowski Brothers for the Matrix sequels.
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Daniel Says:
Monday, May 12, 2008 at 10:58 pm.
That’s interesting. My take on the movie was that the story was pretty predictable and trite, but that the visuals were amazing from frame 1. I loved it.
There were some story sequences that I really liked (Susan Sarandon telling Speed about how proud she was of the way he drove was particularly well done), but I felt a lot of them dragged on the way to the next race.
patrick Says:
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 9:35 am.
The Wachowski bros certainly put a lot of effort into making Speed Racer… the movie overall looked and felt like a cross between anime, a kaleidoscope, that Flintstones movie, a video game and the Dukes of Hazard