Speed Racer
Driving by his deep will of achieving his brother's dream of winning the national race competition, James who is known as Speed Racer, does his best, in order to win the same competition and be the youngest guy who wins it ever, as he risks his life in doing so, and he receives help from his family.
14 June 1963, Heidelberg, Germany
21 March 1980, Khorramabad, Iran
7 March 1980, Kazan, Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]
15 January 1960, Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
12 February 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA
14 June 1998
12 October 1960, Tokyo, Japan
30 June 1982, London, England, UK
18 June 1962, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
22 December 1962, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1962, Mannheim, Germany
1965, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
29 January 1927, New York, New York, USA
13 May 1973, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
27 December 1972
15 December 1965, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
25 June 1982, Seoul, Korea
11 January 1970, Vacha, Thuringia, Germany
4 July 1984, Tokyo, Japan
1983, Liverpool, England, UK
November 14, 2008
Cut from car to driver to announcer to audience and over and over again, ad nauseam. Such pretty racing scenes, so little to actually see.
October 14, 2012
This is Wacky Races powered by Enzo Ferrari and designed by Andy Warhol - candy-coloured carnage with a turbo-charged engine.
May 12, 2008
I love the look and the style and the spirit of this film.
July 18, 2014
It seems less a commercial strategy by the Wachowskis as a philosophical one: to incorporate as many forms of communication and color-blind ethnicity as possible, much as they did with the Matrix pictures.
May 12, 2008
Speed Racer creates a timeless, visually seductive world suspended somewhere between the pop '60s and the sci-fi future. Its biggest disappointment, strangely enough, is its raison d'être -- the races themselves.
October 18, 2008
Twelve-year-old boys should be wowed, but for the rest of us, it will depend on your appetite for eye candy.
March 30, 2011
The filmic side effect of eating an entire bowl full of sugar, Speed Racer is designed entirely with one audience in mind, and despite it's best efforts it's not going to appeal to anyone else.
October 18, 2008
Even the target audience of 10-year-olds might get jimmy legs sitting for a punishing 135 minutes as the Wachowski brothers projectile-vomit their cotton-candy dreams all over the big screen.
May 09, 2008
Speed Racer intends to convey a sense of heedless momentum, but it drags painfully.
May 29, 2013
Amid the overly earnest tone, (almost) squeaky-clean humor and familiar messages about teamwork and integrity is the rare film family that's as strong at the start as they are by the end.
