Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Wordiezett So much average

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

xtradragon02 I watch the re-run cartoons some times when i was a kid, so you would say i grew seeing this. And i say is a masterpiece. Is funny, is intriguing, got action, got drama and the effects and the colors just make it awsome and different, so you can see it like a piece of art!!. I don't know where the hate come from. And maybe im not a famous critic, but I definitely give nice reviews on good movies and this is one!!! Is just maybe not to all kind of audience but still is awsome.

Charles Herold (cherold) Speed Racer is filmed in a unique and imaginative way that at times is electrifying. Colors are vivid, action is wild, and information is dense but *usually* clear, notably in scenes where present action is seamlessly and simultaneously juxtaposed with flashbacks.It's impressive but often utterly exhausting. The movie starts in a mad adrenaline rush and just keeps pushing it. And a certain point I thought the action would never offer respite, and it would be two hours of flashy camera-work, elaborate green-screen setups, and explosions. But the time of the film's first quiet scene I was already mentally exhausted.All this tremendous bravura filmmaking exists more for itself than the story, which is trite and predictable. It is as though Martin Scorcese decided to use his considerable talents to make a My Little Pony movie.As a kid's movie, it's not bad. It's got annoying kids and monkeys and cartoonish bad guys and other things kids like. But it is pure sensory overload.

cinemajesty Based on the short-lived Japanese animated TV-Series by Tatsuo Yoshida from 1967, the Wachowski siblings took on to an live-action adaptation to be produced in 2007 at Studio Babelsberg after their mixed reviewed finale of "The Matrix Revolutions" (2003). "Speed Racer" (2008) stays away from on locations car stunt work, instead utilizing Green-Screen crafted sound stages with digital and high-speed camera work to bring their interpretation of the Japanese original to the scree. Giving a suitable budget of approximately 120 Millions U.S. Dollars under supervision of long-term collaborating producer Joel Silver, the Wachowskis present a clear vision on a previous published material by staying true to all initially involved characters and car designs.To international audiences and the majority of anticipating fans of the original series, the release to event movie season 2008 starting in May 2008 had been a disappointment. Competing with movies as "Iron Man" (2008) or "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008), "Speed Racer" could not convince its PG-family target group to be a technically well-executed Retro-Science-Fiction movie. The story-line had been simplified down to the core of having main character, portrayed by a match-cast actor Emile Hirsch, find recognition in an high compatible industrial racing world market, always faithfully supported by his all too sweet family members.This drained sweetness, tasting like an lollipop on ecstasy, may be the cause for a missed opportunity to move away from the artificiality of a digital extension image system throughout the picture, missing one or two sequences in an on-location environment, where the audience would have found release from an close-to epileptic over-kill in color corrections and editorial pacing by a running time of over 120 minutes. It is understandable that producing "Speed Racer" had been an initial risk management for producers Joel Silver and Grant Hill, leaving the Wachowski Director-Duo full creative freedom to realize their directorial vision, which clearly had been due to long-enduring love with the Original Japanese TV series.Nevertheless an adaptation of a source material needs further visual twists to stand apart from the Original, sharing an individual filtered vision of the source material, which makes the spectator feel that he has not been cheated on a box office ticket. A glimpse of this approach had been flashed by with the character of Racer X, played by actor Matthew Fox, in the last ten minutes of "Speed Racer" with an haunted revelation of the character of Speed's vanished brother still being alive in a brilliantly edited flashback. Unfortunately, this mind-blowing story twist comes at a point in the picture, where the audience so-to-speak had already been finished with their subconsciously evaluation of a movie event, which missed its chance to create attracting word-of-mouth with leaving specter's at the movie houses.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (for Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Sjalka Rjadottir As an adult, i want to describe the movie as a non stop trip on drugs. It is fast, it is a blur of colours, it has a simplistic story (well, in a good way).For a kid, it might all be a little too much - too much hyper, but it is a roller-coaster ride with its very own style from what i can tell.Artistically, it is one of the best or most unique and successful adaptations from comic/animation to - well... lets call it live action for what its worth.This is a mindless movie - but for me it was some 2 hours that were anything but boring - and that considering that i do not like cars, racing, kids in movies - and i especially hate monkeys (in movies and RL)