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Augmentin xr….

I foresee it being one of my first Blu-ray purchases once I, you know, get a Blu-ray player.

I’m so glad you enjoyed it yourself, even it was on Blu-ray (which is still a great experience in and of itself). I agree – I’d love to see it win for SFX, but that is unlikely, since most winners aren’t saddled with critical scorn. Look at last year, when Click lost Best Makeup to La Vie En Rose. Guarantee you Click’s makeup was more impressive, but Oscar couldn’t sleep at night if it gave an Adam Sandler comedy an Oscar for anything, even something as slight as Makeup. So Speed will probably be nominated, but I bet you’re right – Iron Man wins (or maybe Hellboy 2, and while HB2 is a longshot, it isn’t as much of a longshot as Speed is). Oh well. That’s life and politics and film.

I’m not expecting it to qualify as my fave of 2008, but Speed Racer will likely sneak into my top ten of the year. Man on Wire is still at the top of my list (so far).

Speed Racer was a cartoon I loved as a child. I wanted to be Speed, own the Mach 5, and race against Racer X. I had elaborate fantasies of Hot Wheels that could fly, emit whirring saw blades, or pogo out of harms’ way. I finally got to see the cartoon again sometime in my 20’s when it resurfaced on MTV and I was sorta shocked by how surreal and abstract it all was. I didn’t enjoy the cartoon much as an adult and the Speed Racer trailer really turned me off, so I skipped the theatrical release.

Fast forward to the DVD/Blu-ray release and I was kicking myself all weekend for not seeing this on a big screen when I had a chance. Wow, fun times. A good solid two hours of deja vu and childhood nostalgia ensued, something you captured quite accurately in your review (even though you had no nostalgia for the cartoon to pine for).

Glad to see folks championing this film. It really is one of the best art films I’ve seen in years and definitely the best use of an all-CGI world I’ve ever seen in any movie.

I’d love to see it win the Oscar for best visual effects but I’m guessing that will go to Iron Man instead, which doesn’t hold a frigging candle to Speed Racer.

GO SPEED GO !!

How disappointing that it received even less attention in Belgium than it did here. It seems that the studios are cutting their losses and not risking anything on what is a wonderful, entertaining, uplifting film. Perhaps in a few years we’ll be able to look back and better understand the circumstances that killed Speed Racer.

Because the movie didn’t do very well in the US it was announced that Speed Racer would go straight to DVD overhere. (cancelling the planned june theatrical release)

Out of the blue it opened anyhow on july 16th. (with zero publicity – and in three cities only)

I saw it on it’s first weekend evening (8PM-july 18th) screening in Metropolis-Antwerp with my 12 year old daughter. We both loved it. Sadly however only 7 other people were present in the rather large theater.

I really wanted to see this movie again before it would disappear. On tuesday evening (8PM-july 22nd) I took my wife, 7 year old daughter, sister-in-law and 6 year old nephew along to see this film. (Sadly only 1 other person was present in the theatre)

We all loved the movie. The kids went wild at the end. Jumping down the aisles (over the seats) to a victory dance in front of the screen end titles.

It turned out Speed Racer only lasted for one week in Metropolis-Antwerp.

However in Kinepolis-Brussels he’s riding his second week. (Also in Liege he’s allowed to race another week – albeit dubbed in french)

I’m looking forward to seeing it on dvd.

Didn’t get any action figures, but ordered the 2 soundtrack cd’s.
(the proper soundtrack and the CD-single with the end-titles theme song)

I can always blame it on my net drugs.

Also, I still love this film. Immensely. I have a little Mach 5 sitting in front of me as I type this. Speed Racer will likely be my #1 film of the year.

Glad to find another person who loves this amazing film, Brandon. Hope you’ll stick around these here parts.

But yes, he was great. The whole cast was. They brought gravity to kitschy roles that most actors would have gone at with a wink-wink nudge-nudge attitude. It works because they play it straight, rather than for laughs.

Damn, it was good! It was nice of you to point out the cast . . . although I have to add that Matthew Fox was deliciously sexy, yet compelling as Racer X.

I have noticed that people who have actually seen this film . . . really liked it. Hopefully it will become the cult classic that it deserves to be.

If it does show up at theaters here I will go check it out. I live in the Cayman Islands, so we don’t have the greatest selection and movies sometimes arrive months after the US release.

Pancakes are love!

I can’t count the number of conversations I’ve had when I tell people that they have to see Speed Racer and they screw up their face and go, “Really?”, as if I’d just told them that they have to check out the new soda machine in the Wendy’s down the street. I wasn’t really paying attention, but apparently the marketing on SR was horrendous, because no one thought it looked even remotely good.

Luke, glad you liked the movie. Apparently, except for a few pockets of enthusiasm here and elsewhere, no one gives a crap. Even my prediction that it would be big in Europe was way off the mark.

Oh well, I’ve still got a big goofy smile on my face.

Anil, look forward to reading your review on the film, glad I nudged it a bit in a positive direction for you.

And Joseph, enjoying it as fun spectacle is the least one can expect. I think what shocked me the most about the critical reception was that it wasn’t even being regarded as ‘fun.’ Most slammed it as tedious, boring, heavy-handed, and way too many pretty lights. What the heck? It is at the very least, as you said, worth checking out.

Reminds me of everything good about Treasure Planet, that other underrated movie that no one went to see.

Someone just had to play the Death Race card! Just about my favorite B-Movie ever. God Bless you Roger Corman

I guess we better not tell you about the upcoming Paul W. S. Anderson remake…

Damb it, now I am going to have to take a half dozen gravol and head done to the theatre. Someone just had to play the Death Race card! Just about my favorite B-Movie ever. God Bless you Roger Corman

I didn’t like it as much as Evan, but it’s definitely worth checking out.

In short, “Mario Kart meets Death Race 2000″

Screw you for seeing this film WAY before me and actually loving it to pieces.

Thank you for a FANTASTIC review that makes me want to see it as soon as possible.

Your review encourages me once again, for which I am grateful. Even if I don’t like the movie myself (which is probable) I think your points are all valid and I am planning to put a link to your review, along with Roger Ebert’s, under my own as a recommendation for further reading.

Good job

There’s a visual ambition and radical experimentation here that SHOULD please anyone who cares about daring, singular filmmaking. This new CGI imagery pops for the digital age the way technicolor did in the ’50s.

That the Wachowski’s did this for the escapist film is what makes Speed Racer a little miracle for me. I’m not into this kind of stuff that much anymore, but this film reminded me of everything great about being a young dreamer. It is terribly, terribly underrated.

And Pops, my son is only 3 weeks old, but I kept wishing that he was 5 or 6 so I could take him to see it with me. Can’t wait to introduce it to him later in life!

Great father/son movie.

Go see it !

So I had no qualms with the plot or script. Interestingly, my son was hung up on various plot loose ends and weak sections of the script. And he couldn’t let go of his desire to nail down when the movie takes place.

A reversal of movie-going roles. For him it was a movie, not a TV cartoon, so it needed to abide by movie rules and meet movie expectations. For me it transcended such expectations.

Until I found your review I was expecting to be in a camp of one, unaware of others who shared my experience of the film. I still doubt many/any of my friends will find it as transformational of the medium as I do.

Glad you did. Thanks.

I think I have read almost every critic’s shredding(Bombastic, indeed!) of ‘Speed Racer’ and wondered whether they saw the same movie as I did.

I grew up on the ‘Speed Racer’ cartoons – emulating Speedy with my Matchbox set, dreaming of the day when, I too, would be behind the wheel of my own Mach 5. My go-cart – both the homebuilt one that steered with rope, and the later one that actually had a lawnmower engine on the back – was named the Mach 5. Speed Racer was my hero – always did what was right, always won the race, always looked forward to the best, always took a stand against cheaters and general never-do-wells. To say I expected a lot from this movie would be an understatement on the scale of, say, the Universe.

And then I read the initial reviews… I was disappointed. I was worried that the Wachowski’s had permeated ‘Speed Racer’ with all the dark, vapid, pseudo-mythology of the later ‘The Matrix’ films. My enthusiam for going to see the movie was infected.

Thankfully, I went and saw it anyway. This movie IS on the scale and spirit of Star Wars. I watched it with the same Oh-my-GOD! This-is-the-best-movie-EVER!, 9-year-old zeal that I had back then. I had wide-eyed wonder, and came out grinning like some Wonderland cat.

Thank you for your review – you got it spot on! Brilliant!