Comments on: Stop, Speed Racer, Stop

By: Auggie

Auggie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:43:45 +0000

I loved the cartoon, loved the movie. I will be buying the DVD the second it comes out. So many cartoons an comics Hollywood has butchered, I am not saying they got this move right, although I really don’t think they got it wrong.

By: Cary Coatney

Cary Coatney — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:41:48 +0000

With the way Pops handled that ninja – I’m surprised that Ultimate Nick Fury didn’t offer the Avengers gig to him, or at least Chim Chim.

Coat

By: C. E. Grayson

C. E. Grayson — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:48:19 +0000

Sadly, my kids have already seen people flicked off. After all, they ride around in the car with me. I know this makes me a bad parent.

I have already begun shopping for our very own family chim-chim :)

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:29:25 +0000

D00D, Keanu never went “Woa”. It was “Whoa”.

And you can’t protect your kids forever. Perhaps they’ve already seen people “flicked” off. Also, it was so brief, some kids never saw it.

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:07:36 +0000

This movie is NOT for children. The plot is way too convoluted, geared for adults that remember the cartoon and is too long. The Spritle kid is vomit-inducing and when he flicks off a character, you realize your kids are being exposed to lackluster thinking and events you spend a lifetime shielding your young kids from. I have no idea why these brothers think we all need to see a movie at lightning speed. After Matrix, the rest of that series went berserk in stupid plot lines and Keanu going “woa”. They do nothing to change that image here. I dare anyone to recite a two lines in a row that Emile Hirsch stated from the script. See? Forgettable. Wait for the cartoon-it’s way better

By: Kirk Boxleitner, a.k.a. K-Box

Kirk Boxleitner, a.k.a. K-Box — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:25:23 +0000

I’m sensing more of that 14 year old I’M TOO COOL FOR THIS KID STUFF vibe off the negative reviews than any real criticism of what the film accomplished. And yet, moviegoing audiences have proven their willingness to support films that critics have hated in the past, but as the weekend numbers show, they're not doing so with Speed Racer. So, at the very least, I think this proves that something is wrong here, that goes well beyond "WAHHH TEH CRITICS ARE BEING BULLIES!!!111ELEVENTY-ONE" Then again, I always hated the original Speed Racer cartoon, even though I loved about 90 percent of the imported Japanese cartoons from that era (Speed Racer struck me as being the most bargain-basement and patronizing of them all, even when I was in grade school), so I had no interest in seeing this movie anyway. With any luck, this will prevent the planned Amerizanized live-action version of Akira from ever being made. Akira deserves better.

By: Scott Neely

Scott Neely — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:46:34 +0000

Also have to mention that I did see the new cartoon version that Palmiotti and Gray were behind and that sucked ass. Don’t waste your time watching that. It reeked of that lame factor that plaqued the mid 90’s updated version. Or was that the early 90’s? It didn’t last long so I may be off on the timeline…

By: Scott Neely

Scott Neely — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:39:55 +0000

I just got back from seeing Speed Racer at the 10:30pm show. I couldn’t believe the shitty reviews and how little money it made this weekend so I was curious as to what was perceived to be wrong with it. I went into it with an open mind (as I did the same with the Cat In The Hat and found that everyone was in fact right. Cat In The Hat sucked dog balls).

Speed Racer, however, blew me away by the entertainment value! It was a visual orgy and feast for the eyes in large spots but slowed down to give some nice exposition. Racer X was way cool and the twist at the end of it for his character was great. Fuck the critics! This was WAY BETTER than Iron Man could have hoped to have been in my eyes. Iron Man was great but Speed was at least 10 times more fun and WAY more enjoyable! The story is a typical one and you’ve been there before but the ride was much more fun. I could have sat through it again, which I didn’t want to do with Iron Man…at least not for a while.

Go see it with an open mind and I think a lot of people will enjoy it on here. The time length for it sure didn’t see like a 2 hour and 15 minute movie…the best part is the super cool race in the middle. The Casa Cristo 500 race as it featured the Mach 5 in all it’s glory. The Brothers have made up for the Matrix 2 and 3 in my eyes.

I want SPEED RACER 2!!!!

By: MarcusLusk

MarcusLusk — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:38:34 +0000

The other studios are crying foul on Warner’s $20 million estimate for SPEED RACER:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/what-a-disaster-speed-racer-20m-weekend-half-what-warner-bros-hoped-overseas-take-dismal-too/
Looks like SPEED will actually come in THIRD place, with second place going to WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS. Of course everything was thoroughly trounced by IRON MAN, which made $50.5 million in its *second* weekend.

Yeah, I wouldn’t count on a sequel.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:13:33 +0000

i really loved this movie. I think I enjoyed it more than Iron Man. I liked IM a lot, but the action scenes and story all felt very familiar. Speed Racer exists in a world that I’ve never seen on film before.

So there’s zero chance of there being a sequel, right?

By: C. E. Grayson

C. E. Grayson — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:18:17 +0000

we liked it (ok, my 5 year old son and I loved it, daughter liked it, wife was ok with it). It was a kids movie, nothing more. It really embodied the vibe of the old series, hence the mugging.

By: Dean Trippe

Dean Trippe — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:12:41 +0000

I’m sensing more of that 14 year old I’M TOO COOL FOR THIS KID STUFF vibe off the negative reviews than any real criticism of what the film accomplished. I took my younger sister and had a flipping BLAST. I seriously had to consciously keep myself from yelling out GO SPEED GO during the Grand Prix.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:24:32 +0000

“Some folks just don’t dig cartoons.”

And a baker’s dozen of Chim Chim cookies for them!

By: Randall Kirby

Randall Kirby — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:07:54 +0000

I liked it a lot. I thought the family dynamic was fun.
I can see some folks not liking it. The movie isn’t just based on a cartoon. it is a cartoon. Some folks just don’t dig cartoons.

By: Bill D.

Bill D. — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:14:04 +0000

This looks like it’s Mario Kart: The Movie.

And I’m definitely down for something like that.