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		List Price: $35.99		Label: Warner Home Video Salesrank: 692 Released: September 16, 2008
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		MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008 Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg

Description of Speed Racer [Blu-ray]:
An over-the-top, sensory overload experience determined to replicate its frantic, television-anime origins, Speed Racer is wild enough to induce a headache or wow a viewer with one dazzling effect after another. Adapted for the big screen as a live-action feature, Speed Racer is written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the sibling team behind the intensely satisfying The Matrix and its busier, less interesting sequels. Where the rich mythmaking of The Matrix was entirely accessible, however, Speed Racer's overwhelming and gratuitously complicated story exposition is an enormous challenge to follow, let alone embrace. After a while, one simply surrenders to the unbroken din of dialogue concerning corporate chicanery, corruption in the sport of racing, and a value conflict between racing as a family business versus multinational cash cow. At the same time, the film's hyper-real equivalent of the old Speed Racer cartoon's great whoosh of color, motion, and edgy production design--such as inventive uses of scene-changing wipes, bold framing, shifting perspectives--are more overbearing than fun.

Emile Hirsch plays Speed Racer, younger brother of a deceased racing legend, Rex, and son of car designer Pops (John Goodman). The latter invented Speed's Mach 5, and is singularly unimpressed by an offer from a giant conglomerate that would lock Speed into exclusive racing services. Speed opts instead for family loyalty, incurring the wrath of the conglomerate's unctuous head (Roger Allam). With family honor on the line and the affections of girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci) behind him, Speed hits the track in hopes of fulfilling his destiny as a master racer. The cast is largely enjoyable, including Susan Sarandon as Speed's mom, Matthew Fox as mysterious Racer X, and a pair of chimps as the irrepressible Chim-Chim. All well and good, but in a movie that lives or dies by the excitement level of races that look like computer-animated Hot Wheels action, Speed Racer is a dreary adventure. --Tom Keogh

Speed Racer [Blu-ray] Reviews:
about 57% of the ROTTEN TOMATOES critics evidently.....
2009-12-28 - left their sense of humor home when they saw this film theatrically . granted , i had the good fortune to get this picture new for $2.00 . it was a door buster at the largest retail box store on black friday . i had very low expectations of this film . i disliked the ANIME ? cartoon it was based on from my youth . that toon had really gotten under my skin and turned me off at a very young age . big time . i only knew that the WACHOWSKI BROTHERS had directed . so , for a couple bucks i rolled the bones . when the case reminded me it was a PG film i felt pretty skeptical . of the trio of pictures i saw yesterday (the other two being "16 BLOCKS" and "THE DANGEROUS LIVES OF ALTER BOYS") this was the one i wanted to throw my weight behind . for me , the performances , clever script , vivid color pallet , clothing styles , choreographed fights , cinematography and international cast were a real treat . as a matter of opinion i feel if this film had an R rating and was called "SIN CITY" it would have been heavily lauded for the same reason critics and ordinary folks have spent a fair amount of time deriding it . just one person's take . i like it a lot . the most spectacularly colorful film i've ever seen (in every sense of the words) . leaps off the screen and directly into your happy heart . check it out .

I'm amazed HOW AMAZING THIS MOVIE IS.
2009-12-25 - I didn't see this when it was released, but I can say I wish I had. It was the most fun and really a well acted movie of this type that I'ld seen in quite a while. It will some day be considered a classic, cult or otherwise. Had the directors realized how great of a job the actors would do, they might have cut back on the excess CGI. Still that's not enough to keep this from rating 5 stars. Speed was outstanding. His little brother and the monkey couldn't have been more on target, and were responsible for some great laughs ( thank you it was needed ). The drama with Racer X was touching. Mom and Pops were of course more involved than ever, and Tixie was a bit, well, out there. I find myself wishing it had made enough for another adventure but this is a enjoyable experience and highly recommended movie.

A 2-hour arcade game
2009-12-12 - I disagree that this is a great film OR a technical feast for anyone except CGI fans. This reviewer is not one of those.

Of course movies aren't real, but some realism is expected unless it's a completely animated film. CGI effects look like a GAME rather than quality filmmaking, and that's what "Speed Racer" really is....a classic tv show repackaged as a two-hour game.

The frail storyline just isn't enough to hold interest for the duration of this film, especially for fans of the original. The talents of the fine cast, including John Goodman and Susan Sarandon, are completely wasted.

Don't recommend this to anyone but CGI fans and very young kids. Let's hope another director gets it right.

THIS MOVIE WAS AWESOME!!
2009-11-29 - Great Movie! Exciting, visually out-of-control! This is one of those movies that make you want to cheer at the end! Great job by all involved acting wise! Spectacular effects! Kids will love it as well as adults! Go Speed Go!!

The most fun i've had at the movies in a long time.
2009-11-29 - A came into Speed Racer expecting to be entertained and just that. What actually happened blew me away! I was gripped and mesmerized. I felt like a little kid again hanging on to each scene. The bright colors and over-the-top characters, combined with the amazing special effects, made this movie a thrill ride of excitement that blew me away!