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Oh, and Cosma Shiva Hagen (awesome name) as Gennie, Allam's assistant, is just amazingly easy on the eyes. Roger Allam is apparently the W brothers go-to guy for scenery-chewing villain, almost reprising his villainous villainy from V for Vendetta.
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Spritle and Chim Chim drove me nuts, but they drove me nuts when I was a kid watching the TV series. Christina Ricci as Trixie, John Goodman as Pops, and even Susan Sarandon as Mom, were each an inspired choice. I thought Emile Hirsch as Speed would drive me nuts, but he’s all right.
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Here.?įor crying out loud, does every single big budget film made have to slam capitalism and Big Business? Is it some secret code within the WGA, DGA, MPAA, etc.? Can’t the villains in this sort of film just once, just once, just be independent villains? Do we always have to paint Big Business as wearing waxed mustaches, busily twirling the ends and sneering?Ĭast and casting is perfectly fine. I love that the Racer family wants to be independent, sponsor free, but where in the hell does Pops get all his funding from? Sure, this was never discussed in the TV series, but there you got to see Speed & Family win lots of races with fat monetary prizes. The film is deliriously silly in its underlying politics and economics. So much color is swirling about while people squeal, tires shriek, engines bellow, that it's all reduced to a mind-numbing blur. Dead components, at that.Īnd if you got lost during the action sequences in Transformers, you stand no chance during Speed Racer. Complaints about cinematic style aside, when a rocket hit someone in Transformers that person or thing was reduced to components. I understand that this, even with a PG rating, was meant to be a kid’s film, but arguably so was Transformers, yet people get squished throughout that film. Since cars can now do anything - even fighting each other - and regardless of what that anything is no one will get hurt, please tell me why I should give a hoot? There is not even a twinge of threat, ever.
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Further, drivers can suffer horrific crashes, get encased in bubbles, and simply pop out for a safe, injury-free landing. Part of the reason I didn’t care is that it’s established right from the beginning that the laws of physics simply don’t apply. I found a convenient place to pause, did so, and went to bed without one whisper of an idea of thinking about considering a rumination of concern as to what would happen next. Zero involvement with the characters, zero buy-in for the stakes at hand, zero “give a damn” factor all around. That I could successfully watch this over two nights illustrates the film’s real major flaw. Yet here, for Speed, my eyes simply had to shut it out. Cloverfield didn’t make me retch, not at the theatre or during subsequent viewings on DVD, though it tried real, real hard. I’m not given to motion sickness when watching a film (though sitting in a car at a drive-in watching the car chase in Bullitt came close). I can’t imagine what this must have been like in a theatre. I had to watch the film over two nights because the lights, color, motion, etc., made my head ache. Oh it comes so damn close to working.īut it doesn’t. Everyone acts over-the-top, while at the same time the world they inhabit is deliciously over-the-top. Scene after scene is pure outlandish behavior. The style of Speed Racer is near-brilliant, and it’s consistent. That’s why I wanted to see the film, and now I find I agree. Dirty Harry made this observation in his review of the theatrical release. From the first frame it is clear that this film will go no where near reality, that it will be merrily content to create its own sense of reality. There is no attempt to subdue appearances for the sake of reality. Everything is bright and garish, every scene pops with an unreal color intensity. Speed Racer, the film, makes no concessions. From ninja tights to armored suit, which is stupid (as Moviebob very aptly pointed out). Take a look at the comic Batman’s costume and compare it to any of the big-screen adaptations. Most comic-to-film adaptations make some concession, or concessions, to reality. You say this has been tried before, but never to this extent. So here he comes, here comes Speed Racer, a film which attempts to be wholly original by taking a cartoon world and turning it into a flesh and blood spectacle. However, even a cursory look at those films would reveal a certain love not just for Japanese martial arts, but for Japanese animation (anime). At first glance this is an odd film for the Wachowski Brothers to pick as their follow-up to their Matrix trilogy. Newly released on DVD, freshly available from Netflix, now overtaxing my ancient television, Speed Racer.
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