Movie Summary: Speed Racer (That's his name), drives for his family's racing team. After the death of his older brother, Speed must choose to join another racing conglomerate team. Speed later teams up with the secret agent, Racer X, who may or may not be his "deceased" brother to take down an evil corporation at the biggest race of his life. Comments: Another movie based on a previous existing cartoon, this is a live-action update of the 1960s Japanese anime. Produced by the Matrix team, this is a slap-dash movie incorporating comedy, action, and tons of special effects. Too bad the plot line is paper thin and the story jumps around so much that it gets boring fast. The cast is played so much like a cheesy troupe, that its hard to figure out why only Speed and Racer X don't realize that their lives are just for fun and that even though they are shot at, run over, spun around, nobody ever seems to get hurt.
Contrary to reports I've read, the special effects aren't too daunting to the eyes. The FX are pretty nice, too bad the whole time instead of thinking about the movie I was thinking that this would probably be better played as a video game than a film.
The most annoying aspect of the movie that could have been radically fixed was to take out the annoying kid brother and the chimp. They were played as a slapstick team that just didn't pan out and made watching the film even more intolerable....film makers, haven't you read that kid sidekicks and animals in film are never a good mix in an action film? Kid's animated movie or Sea World, yes. Action film, no.
Score: 2 out of 5.
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