Yikes, Peter Suderman really didn't like Speed Racer. But his review is entertaining at least. Read it instead of seeing the movie.
Speed Racer opens with a shot of a boy, perhaps six years old, trapped in a school desk, anxiously tapping his foot while daydreaming of a racecar-inspired fantasyland. That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about this spastic display of multicolored auto-mania. The whole film has been designed to look like a Hello Kitty on bad acid — splashes and swirls of garish color fuel every frame — and all of it flies by with the painful rapidity of a machine gun. It’s not so much a movie as a barrage of computer-generated twitches stitched together for an audience that has trouble paying attention through an entire commercial.
It's not too surprising as there isn't a lot with which to work with Speed Racer. Much better would be a film version of Star Blazers.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Speed Racer
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I [heart] Star Blazers. That was my first obsessive TV show ever. I remember watching it at 7a in Seattle growing up. Getting up early to eat breakfast before so that I could watch all the way to the end before running for the bus. Ahh, the good ol' days.
I think it was my first obsessive show as well. I watched Battle of the Planets as a kind of proxy since Starblazers was only shown intermittently in my town.
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