NASCAR: The IMAX Experience (2004)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 17
A thrill ride for fans, but those looking for a deeper experience will be choking on exhaust.
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 5
A thrill ride for fans, but those looking for a deeper experience will be choking on exhaust.
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Take the wheel for a hot lap with America's favorite spectator sport. Live the excitement of NASCAR racing and feel the roar as 750-horsepower stock cars are unleashed on the 60-foot-high IMAX Dome screen with 12,000 watts of digital surround sound.
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The movie makes an excellent primer about the world of stock car racing for fans and nonfans alike.
Top CriticNASCAR 3D will delight fans of auto racing.
An interesting behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's most popular spectator sports.
Its rampant corporate sponsorship is messy and distracting, and the athleticism necessary to triumph is still less intriguing (perhaps because it's less visible) than the athleticism necessary to triumph in, say, baseball.
Doesn't quite overcome its shameless self-promotion, but the film will satisfy the Lynyrd Skynyrd set while providing a decent explanation to those who are baffled by the sport's popularity.
A 45-minute glorified infomercial.
A rather rote and superficial look at the NASCAR circuit.
It turns out that racing around an oval track offers surprisingly few opportunities to exploit 3D effectively.
I wanted more time on the track, more passing, more actual racing. NASCAR (Stock car racing) implies "adrenaline rush" and I missed that in this otherwise solid documentary.
The film is about as illuminating as the race cars' stickered-on headlights.
This one does manage to put audiences in the action. And its brief examinations of the science of auto racing are pretty educational.
Part infomercial, part historical documentary, all in 3-D, Nascar 3D is best seen as a spectacle, something that exists for its format rather than its content.
Gentlemen and ladies: Don your goggles!
In spite of flaws, for sheer size and bravado, it still deserves a look
Those vehicles sure are big, they come right at you, and they're in one heck of a hurry. For about 40 minutes, that's all you really need.
Offers a bit of NASCAR history, a smattering of engineering facts, glimpses of some of the sport's most popular personalities and a whole lot of hyperbolic chatter about the populist glory of driving really noisy cars in a circle at 200 miles per hour.
An uneven combination of documentary and demolition drama.
As IMAX fare goes, NASCAR 3D is an action-packed ride.
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