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Speed Racer

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6.3/10 • 1.5K

2008-05-072h 15m

FamilyActionAdventureComedy

A world built for speed.

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.

Directors
Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Writters
Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Editors
Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Zach Staenberg

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Emile Hirsch

    Emile Hirsch

    Speed Racer

  2. Christina Ricci

    Christina Ricci

    Trixie

  3. John Goodman

    John Goodman

    Pops Racer

  4. Susan Sarandon

    Susan Sarandon

    Mom Racer

  5. Matthew Fox

    Matthew Fox

    Racer X

  6. Benno Fürmann

    Benno Fürmann

    Inspector Detector

  7. Hiroyuki Sanada

    Hiroyuki Sanada

    Mr. Musha

  8. Rain

    Rain

    Taejo Togokahn

  9. Richard Roundtree

    Richard Roundtree

    Ben Burns

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Wehrmacht

Oct 12, 2020

4/10

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.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$120,000,000.00
Revenue
$93,900,000.00
Keywords
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