Speed Racer is easily the most boring action film since Matrix Revolutions. The racing, with it’s cartoon backgrounds, had all the realism of racing in front of a cartoon background. All of the scenes with the cartoon backgrounds were slightly out of phase with the live action sequences so that it never looked right-but then, maybe this not quite right look is what they were going for. I don’t know who the kid playing Speed Racer was, but he was a perfect blend of cartoon Speed Racer and Elvis Presley. It was good to see John Goodman and Susan Sarandon…
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Speed Racer-The Wachowski Brothers Way
The Wachowski Brothers are following in the footsteps of everyone else in Hollywood and doing a remake. Speed Racer is set for release in May of 2008 and is rumored to have the kind of eye popping effects that made The Matrix movies cost so much. The Wachowski Brothers movie The Matrix is my Best Movie Ever and I hope they will have a story to go with the gee whiz effects. But it is Speed Racer we are talking about here-Speed enters race, Speed is forced out by bad guys, Speed returns to race and wins. Yeah! For those…