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Speed Racer (Widescreen Edition)

starring: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon
directed by: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski

: Speed Racer (Widescreen Edition)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085391176398
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 135 minutes
Sales Rank: 413
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008



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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008 Rating: Pg

Amazon.com:
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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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - As exciting as when I saw it at the theater!!!
Ever since i was a kid, I always dreamed of the day they'd make a Speed Racer movie. So when it finally ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Perfect Live-Action Cartoon
Now, I've seen my share of cartoons elevated to live-action in The Big Hollywood Show. Some were abysmal, ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Complete Rollercoaster Ride!
The critics were absolutely DEAD WRONG about this movie. If you Metacritic this movie, the disconnect will ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - Primary coloured and neon lit
Clearly, if the creators (The Wachowski brothers, directors of The Matrix) of the movie want you to remember ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great deal!
The 3-disc set is great! The bonus features are cool and the digital copy is nice to keep on your computer. ... Read More

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