Speed Racer Reviews
Flix Capacitor
The propulsive car-fu provides an exhilarating wow-factor.
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| Original Score: 3/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
This is Wacky Races powered by Enzo Ferrari and designed by Andy Warhol - candy-coloured carnage with a turbo-charged engine.
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| Original Score: 3/5
ComingSoon.net
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.
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| Original Score: 7/10
CinePassion
What grounds the spectacle, pushing it beyond a two-hour ejaculation of sensation, is its yearning for innocence
Orange County and Long Beach Blade
Fellow critics mercilessly denounced this dazzling, visually inventive adaptation; one of the ten best films of 2008
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| Original Score: A-
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
A flashy, colorful film that packs a ton o' fun into its fast-paced frame.
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| Original Score: 7/10
Hollywood.com
You can feel the kids in the audience tapping their feet, waiting for more action. So, let's just give the kids what they want: fast-paced excitement, wrapped up in a colorful package.
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| Original Score: 3/5
NewsBlaze
The arty blockbuster has arrived, and it's as flashy, accessorized and auto-erotic as can be. Which creates a strange sensation indeed, that it's not just the cars that are smoking, but those Wachowski brothers as well, and whatever's in their pipes too.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
The Wachowskis blur the definition of "children's film" as much as the original cartoon challenged Western perceptions of "children's television".
At the Movies (Australia)
This is fairly simplistic anti-corporate fare, told in a way that occasionally defies comprehension as well as gravity. Impressionistic is the word.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Courier Mail (Australia)
Resembling little more than a two-hour video game, the high-energy movie is positive enough about the strength of family to forgive the challenges of the format and simply go along for the (very loud and noisy) ride offered by the Wachowski brothers.
The Age (Australia)
Given that Speed Racer itself is basically an elaborate commercial, the anti-corporate message inevitably rings hollow.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
IGN Movies
Speed Racer is a masterpiece of its kind, and a definitive benchmark for film not only as a special effects extravaganza but as the moment when the Wachowskis went from wunderkind directors to true auteurs.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Urban Cinefile
Creating visual styles that break boundaries is what the Wachowskis do best; Speed Racer is a thrilling triumph of multi-layered visual storytelling, combining CGI with live action & involving mind boggling race sequences using virtual real-life locations
Sin Magazine
I'm not sure exactly who the audience for this is and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed, but it's a fun and wild ride that is unlike anything in theaters right now.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Combustible Celluloid
Perhaps it's not as visually overwhelming or headache inducing on the small screen... but I have to admit I enjoyed myself.
Laramie Movie Scope
A very pretty, colorful roller coaster ride, a wonderful construction of visual imagination.
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| Original Score: B
Watertown Daily Times
If a simple egg can be compared to your brain, then an egg watching the Wachowski brothers' flashy Speed Racer is your brain on drugs.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
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