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Speed Racer

Article published 11th Jun 08
Speed Racer Watch

What:
Speed Racer

When:
June 12

Where:
Everywhere

Watch the trailer:
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Is Speed Racer Kubrick’s 2001 for kids?

To call its reception ‘lukewarm’ is an understatement, and it’s easy to see why. It’s too child-friendly for adults –the cute-kid-and-monkey comic relief, straight from the cartoon, will set many eyes rolling – but it’s also too long and convoluted for kids. It’s hubris worthy of Greek myth to make a film entirely about velocity run for a leisurely, sometimes leaden, two hours or more.

These real, glaring problems? They don’t matter. Behind Speed Racer’s flat dialogue and clumsy storytelling, there’s more life, more joy, more hypodermic-to-the-eye full-tilt kapow than in a half-dozen other blockbusters slapped together.

The Wachowski Brothers gave us bullet-time and flappy black coats, but now they shift gears into bright colours and bizarre designs. Simple cuts are replaced by kaleidoscopic whip-pans. Kinetic energy turns falling snow into anime speed-lines. It’s more than just eye-candy. In the final moments, Speed Racer's visuals fall apart into gorgeous, candified abstractions.

See it if you’re curious how far and fast the Wachowskis will go.

By Martyn Pedler

Format: Cinema

Genre: Other

Keywords: Speed Racer

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