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Speed Racer
The movie follows Speed Racer, a young driver who aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile. And during the race, Speed also has to battle powerful racer Mondragan who manipulates his careers in order to kill him.
1967, Napier, New Zealand
1959, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
20 July 1969
23 December 1970, Zurich, Switzerland
15 January 1960, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7 March 1980, Kazan, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
1939
5 January 1975, Dublin, Ireland
11 January 1970, Vacha, Thuringia, Germany
1966, Szczytno, Warminsko-Mazurskie, Poland
1962, Mannheim, Germany
13 August 1971, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
March 30, 2011
The filmic side effect of eating an entire bowl full of sugar, Speed Racer is designed entirely with one audience in mind, and despite it's best efforts it's not going to appeal to anyone else.
July 18, 2014
It seems less a commercial strategy by the Wachowskis as a philosophical one: to incorporate as many forms of communication and color-blind ethnicity as possible, much as they did with the Matrix pictures.
November 14, 2008
Cut from car to driver to announcer to audience and over and over again, ad nauseam. Such pretty racing scenes, so little to actually see.
May 12, 2008
I love the look and the style and the spirit of this film.
October 14, 2012
This is Wacky Races powered by Enzo Ferrari and designed by Andy Warhol - candy-coloured carnage with a turbo-charged engine.
May 29, 2013
Amid the overly earnest tone, (almost) squeaky-clean humor and familiar messages about teamwork and integrity is the rare film family that's as strong at the start as they are by the end.
May 12, 2008
Speed Racer creates a timeless, visually seductive world suspended somewhere between the pop '60s and the sci-fi future. Its biggest disappointment, strangely enough, is its raison d'être -- the races themselves.
May 09, 2008
Speed Racer intends to convey a sense of heedless momentum, but it drags painfully.
October 18, 2008
Even the target audience of 10-year-olds might get jimmy legs sitting for a punishing 135 minutes as the Wachowski brothers projectile-vomit their cotton-candy dreams all over the big screen.
October 18, 2008
Twelve-year-old boys should be wowed, but for the rest of us, it will depend on your appetite for eye candy.
