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Speed Racer
2008
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Speed Racer
Positive Reviews
48
Negative reviews
23
Average Rating
2.9
/5
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2.0
Painting with CGI, the Wachowskis have constructed a candy colored future so wholly artificial that the humans appear out of place, grafted crudely on ..
Av Club
4.5
Its very cheesy, its very inoffensive ands its been coloured by a hyperactive, acid taking cartoon loving nut job.
Den Of Geek
1.5
Love over money, family over greed; theyre not new messages, but at least theyre delivered with conviction.
Den Of Geek
3.0
Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, and even they might feel an urge to squirm between the videogame style, whizbang, jellybean ..
EW
1.9
Neither is Speed Racer a commercial avant garde film (though fans of the Wachowski brothers may wish to make such claims), unless you still consider L ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Its not entirely clear why the Wachowski brothers, the CGI geniuses behind the Matrix trilogy, didnt make Speed Racer into an animated feature; the fi ..
Common Sense Media
2.0
The brothers swamp the fragile story and characters with such a deluge of CGI tricks and elaborate action sequences that it proves hard to care about ..
Screen Daily
1.5
Grand Theft Auto IV is the antithesis of Speed Racer, and a vastly superior entertainment in every way, medium be damned.
2.5
Its ghastly, but they do it on a grand scale.The fact is, like the toxic gas suspended over a northern New Jersey sunrise, poison can be beautiful.
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
The film brims with ideas and invention, staying true its ambition of the living cartoon.
3.0
The good parts stop being good when you fail to let the audience enjoy them.
Cinema Blend
3.0
Writer directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, the creators of the Matrix films, once again invent stunning visual tricks in this adaptation of the late 6 ..
Ny Daily News
3.5
Visuals aside, what surprised me the most about this motion picture was the fact that it managed to convey legitimate messages despite its superficial ..
JoBlo
3.0
It seems weird and my mind battles to figure out whether its looking at a CGI animated movie or a live action film.
Screen Rant
3.8
Instead, the universe of Speed Racer offers futuro cityscapes and neon limned architecture, and race arenas that look like Las Vegas gone wild.
Philly
2.0
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
1.5
The predictable and dramatically flat film lacks tension, as the WHAM!
Sover
2.5
Its a kaleidoscope gone mad.Yet this kind of visual overdrive has its limits, and with little else to recommend it, Speed Racer passes the barrier bet ..
ReelViews
2.5
Its not, and the sight of a top flight cast gamely trying to bring emotional depth to cartoon characters is disheartening.
Tv Guide
3.5
Warner Home Videos DVD looks spectacular enough that it made me forget the fact that I dont yet own a Blu Ray player or a high def television.It comes ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.0
They even work the old SR theme Go, Speed Racer! Go, Speed Racer! Go, Speed Racer! Go! into the score which brought back memories.
3.8
The first time director has infused the movie with a light hearted, almost Morgan Spurlockesque sensibility that certainly proves apt, as the brisk pa ..
Reel Film Reviews
2.0
It is fun to watch, more so for kids than adults.I had fun watching it.
Lariat
3.0
And this lack of something to grab onto leaves the film feeling very long and strangely dull, even amid in the biggest effects sequences.
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
The View London Review out ofstarsRunning time:minsBased on the popular 1960s anime style cartoon (although not as well known here as in the US), Spee ..
View London
2.0
This is a rather odd message coming from a big studio Hollywood movie designed to kick off a $1 billion franchise.
Cs Monitor
3.0
Its all a bombastic mishmash that makes you feel like youve been stuffed inside a kaleidoscope and shaken for two hours.
Film Journal International ..
2.5
Also, this brightly colored, hyperactive action comedy is pretty violent and mean spirited for a kids film.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
2.5
The movie demands you be a glutton for sensation and then has the nerve to ask why youre not hungrier.
Boston
3.5
It has all the flash and zip of their subsequent work, but it also has a clever story and the chemistry of Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon going for i ..
Mountain X
1.5
The fact that this whole Jetsons style world Speed lives in is mad for racing doesnt seem to have suggested to anyone on the supposedly creative end o ..
3.1
What is completely familiar is the overwhelming impression of speed.Its not just the racing cars.
Toronto Star
3.0
The movies most impressive element is its look, with colors pushed beyond the usual limits to produce ultra bright techno color imagery.
Emanuellevy
2.5
Speaking of racing, theres appropriately a lot of it.But unfortunately, its all a convoluted mess.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.1
Sicario: Day of the Soldado Throughout Sicario: Day of the Soldado, characters talk about things needing to be clean, which pretty much means that a l ..
Q Network
3.0
You have to appreciate the Wachowskis taking an awful franchise with a wholly uninteresting character turning it into a cheesy but fun pulp flick.
Cinema Crazed
4.5
Creating visual styles that break boundaries is what Andy and Larry Wachowski do best, and Speed Racer is a thrilling triumph of multi layered visual ..
2.5
You could call it entertainment, and use it to wow your children for a couple of hours.
New Yorker
3.5
Like the Downey film, Speed Racer is plenty satisfying in traditional action movie terms.
Time
3.8
A top notch fantasy adventure with human drama and zonky comedy mixed in, the film is a narratively compelling and visually extraordinary smorgasbord ..
The Movie Boy
2.5
The movie is fun to look at, but the childlike awe only lasts for so long.
Bullz-Eye
2.0
The Curse of La Llorona cast members Raymond Cruz, Patricia Velasquez and Linda Cardellini, along with director Michael Chaves, share some personal La ..
Calendar Live
3.0
Out of all Speeds animated characters re envisioned Litt does the best job capturing Spritles cartoon mischievousness.
Hollywood
0.5
Whatever the reasons, movie color has never approached what Technicolor produced for those 20 years.
Tony Medley
3.0
The movies greatest achievement lies in its embrace of a modern family entertainment in a broad yet boiled down spectrum of soup to nuts humor, action ..
Coles Mithey
2.5
Marrying elements that appeal to kids and adults alike, a family movie can offer flashy visuals, sophisticated drama and humor, and juicy acting that ..
Groucho Reviews
3.0
Twelve year old boys should be wowed, but for the rest of us, it will depend on your appetite for eye candy.Speed Racer is sweet, but decidedly overlo ..
Cnn
4.5
Still, its hard to shake the feeling that this is the film that Gilliam, ultimately, could make, rather than the film he wanted to, and The Man Who Ki ..
Film Ink
3.5
Given that Speed Racer itself is basically an elaborate commercial, the anti corporate message inevitably rings hollow.
The Age
3.0
This might have been a far better experience at 90 or so minutes instead of its preposterous 135 but discipline is not fueling this kiddie vehicle ext ..
Varia Gate
3.0
Freakishly perverse, this is an immense, Otter Popcolored nostalgic thing that expends so much energy replicating every last widget and geegaw from it ..
The Stranger
2.0
An excellent cast, story and visuals combine for an adrenaline fueled experience.
Cleve Land
1.9
Based on the cult classic, Speed Racer is best appreciated for its replication of style, since the story is thin enough to see through.
Christianity Today
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
3.1
Sometimes it seems great for kids; sometimes it doesnt seem so appropriate.Simply, a funky mess.
Ross Anthony
2.0
Its meant for families, but Speed will surely beguile stoners for years to come.Speed is an intricately constructed movie, with every blinding detail ..
Brian Or Ndorf
2.5
But the Wachowskis know that audiences are coming to see Speed race, and they create eye popping racing scenes that are as unique and thrilling as any ..
Big Picture Big Sound
4.4
The result is a film fans should love and parents can enjoy taking their entire families to.
Movie Crypt
2.5
While Hollywood slapped PG on Speed Racer to line its pocketbooks with the widest hodgepodge of people (ahem: kids), those same kids will leave the th ..
Hollywood Chicago
3.1
Hence, if youre looking for depth, youll have a hard time finding it, as the plot is as thin as it gets and the characters are barely defined beyond t ..
Montreal Film Journal
3.0
Speed Racer is sweet and flashy and often fun, but its thrills are oddly abstractmore esthetic than visceral.
News Week
2.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
2.5
It gave me a headache, a stomach ache and the less defined unease that comes from witnessing a major change in the zeitgeist. Because the zeitgeist, j ..
Chron
3.0
Its a favourite clich of naff film reviewers, but Speed Racer really is a rollercoaster ride.
The Shiz Nit
2.0
Its like watching a 3 D movie without the 3 D glasses, and this in fact is the kids TV visual style that Robert Rodriguez once experimented with in hi ..
Film Guardian
3.8
There is something freeing about watching this movie because it establishes early on that its not playing by certain cinematic rules.
Scene Stealers
1.0
This toxic admixture of computer generated frenzy and live action torpor succeeds in being, almost simultaneously, genuinely painful the esthetic equi ..
Wsj
3.0
The midnight movie circuit may be kinder to it than its current placement in the thick of the multiplex; eventually, it might eke out the same sense o ..
Flip Side Archive
2.0
The Wachowskis have gone drunk with effects, and the collective result is a migraine and the desire to stare at a white wall for a few hours afterward ..
From The Balcony
2.5
While there were jokes from the elder heights of film cricketry about sugar rushes and candy coatings and epileptic fits, Speed Racer is a less than o ..
New City Film
3.5
Its silly and noisy and kinetic and a lot of fun; a perfect summer movie, styled like Desperate Housewives on acid.Thankfully the Wachowskis have give ..
Future Movies
5.0
The film transitions from action to drama to sweet scenes so fast, the whole thing is a fast paced, edge of your seat thrill ride.This is the fastest, ..
Can Mag
4.5
Thankfully, the film more then delivers on the level of pure excitement, offering the most visually arresting world ever conceived for a piece of main ..
Movies Ign
4.0
This mismatch of perception now has a name and it sums it up perfectly.
News
4.5
What grounds the spectacle, pushing it beyond a two hour ejaculation of sensation, is its yearning for innocence.
Cine Passion
2.0
You give up two plus hours of your life only to have it gone in 60 seconds.
Metro Weekly
3.0
But its also filled with energy and visual pizzazz and at least strives for something more than dumb entertainment.
Blog Oregonlive
4.0
Its a movie thats simply joyful to look at, and that joy never lets up across more than two hours.Its just so much movie, and while I wouldnt want eve ..
Reviews Antagony Ecstasy
3.0
Unabashedly seditious in the vein of their previous movies, the Wachowskis Speed Racer has serious flaws, and barely enough color and speed to appeal ..
Edge Boston
0.6
Speed Racer is the Wachowskis on overdrive and the result is a garish nightmare that looks like Andy and Larry ate a kaleidoscope, then vomited all ov ..
Maki At The Movies Blogspo ..
1.0
The combination might sound good, but its not.Its a waste of time.
Tucson Weekly
3.0
Paul Litt is especially entertaining as Spritle, but it could be anyone interacting with a chimp is guaranteed to get big laughs
Gazette
3.0
Messy and undisciplined, if at least always itself. But isnt this a more suitable aesthetic for an imaginary movie version of Marvels Dazzler
Film Experience Blog Spot
2.0
Its eye candy may not satisfy anyone other than the most dedicated of fans. This film could have used a heavy dose of Spielberg pacing and Pixar perso ..
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