I saw the movie on Friday. It's incredibly fun. When I was a kid, my mother was of the opinion that Speed Racer was "too violent" (I was about 7,
and she evidently didn't believe I could separate cartoons from reality at that age or something), so I could only catch an episode very rarely. I remember
being pretty impressed with it and thinking it was really cool. When they rebroadcast it back in the 90s, my nostalgia was squashed quite brutally, because
let's face it, the cartoon is crap.
The Wachoskis have done an excellent thing. They took that nostalgia and gave it a film that lived up to it, not one that was on par with the original cartoon.
The visuals are brilliantly four-color, the action is fast-paced and breathtaking, and the humor is perfect. The acting is solid and the casting is perfect.
The story is ... well, it's Speed Racer, so there's not a lot of depth, but it doesn't really need it. And they use every device in the Mach 5
except for the bird (although Speed doesn't drive it underwater).
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."
and she evidently didn't believe I could separate cartoons from reality at that age or something), so I could only catch an episode very rarely. I remember
being pretty impressed with it and thinking it was really cool. When they rebroadcast it back in the 90s, my nostalgia was squashed quite brutally, because
let's face it, the cartoon is crap.
The Wachoskis have done an excellent thing. They took that nostalgia and gave it a film that lived up to it, not one that was on par with the original cartoon.
The visuals are brilliantly four-color, the action is fast-paced and breathtaking, and the humor is perfect. The acting is solid and the casting is perfect.
The story is ... well, it's Speed Racer, so there's not a lot of depth, but it doesn't really need it. And they use every device in the Mach 5
except for the bird (although Speed doesn't drive it underwater).
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com
"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."