Speed Racer 2008

A world built for speed.

6.261 / 10   1470 vote(s)
PG
Family Action Adventure Comedy

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.

Homepage http://www.speedracerthemovie.warnerbros.com/
Release Date 2008-05-07
Runtime 2h 15m
Directors David Tattersall, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Hugh Bateup, Terry Needham, Cornelia Ott, David Scheunemann, Stefan Speth, Daniel Perez Ferreira, Emma Horton
Producers Joel Silver, Bruce Berman, Jill Brooks, Grant Hill, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Jessica Alan, Roberto Malerba, Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken, Marcus Loges, Michael Lambert, David Lane Seltzer, Julie Orosz, Lisa Goldberg, Thomas Nittmann, Sean Cushing, Melinka Thompson-Godoy, David Van Dyke, Denise Davis, Mark Webb, Laura Zentil
Writers Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Tatsuo Yoshida

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.

Wehrmacht