Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Mischa Redfern I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

xtradragon02 I watch the re-run cartoons some times when i was a kid, so you would say i grew seeing this. And i say is a masterpiece. Is funny, is intriguing, got action, got drama and the effects and the colors just make it awsome and different, so you can see it like a piece of art!!. I don't know where the hate come from. And maybe im not a famous critic, but I definitely give nice reviews on good movies and this is one!!! Is just maybe not to all kind of audience but still is awsome.

cinemajesty Based on the short-lived Japanese animated TV-Series by Tatsuo Yoshida from 1967, the Wachowski siblings took on to an live-action adaptation to be produced in 2007 at Studio Babelsberg after their mixed reviewed finale of "The Matrix Revolutions" (2003). "Speed Racer" (2008) stays away from on locations car stunt work, instead utilizing Green-Screen crafted sound stages with digital and high-speed camera work to bring their interpretation of the Japanese original to the scree. Giving a suitable budget of approximately 120 Millions U.S. Dollars under supervision of long-term collaborating producer Joel Silver, the Wachowskis present a clear vision on a previous published material by staying true to all initially involved characters and car designs.To international audiences and the majority of anticipating fans of the original series, the release to event movie season 2008 starting in May 2008 had been a disappointment. Competing with movies as "Iron Man" (2008) or "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008), "Speed Racer" could not convince its PG-family target group to be a technically well-executed Retro-Science-Fiction movie. The story-line had been simplified down to the core of having main character, portrayed by a match-cast actor Emile Hirsch, find recognition in an high compatible industrial racing world market, always faithfully supported by his all too sweet family members.This drained sweetness, tasting like an lollipop on ecstasy, may be the cause for a missed opportunity to move away from the artificiality of a digital extension image system throughout the picture, missing one or two sequences in an on-location environment, where the audience would have found release from an close-to epileptic over-kill in color corrections and editorial pacing by a running time of over 120 minutes. It is understandable that producing "Speed Racer" had been an initial risk management for producers Joel Silver and Grant Hill, leaving the Wachowski Director-Duo full creative freedom to realize their directorial vision, which clearly had been due to long-enduring love with the Original Japanese TV series.Nevertheless an adaptation of a source material needs further visual twists to stand apart from the Original, sharing an individual filtered vision of the source material, which makes the spectator feel that he has not been cheated on a box office ticket. A glimpse of this approach had been flashed by with the character of Racer X, played by actor Matthew Fox, in the last ten minutes of "Speed Racer" with an haunted revelation of the character of Speed's vanished brother still being alive in a brilliantly edited flashback. Unfortunately, this mind-blowing story twist comes at a point in the picture, where the audience so-to-speak had already been finished with their subconsciously evaluation of a movie event, which missed its chance to create attracting word-of-mouth with leaving specter's at the movie houses.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (for Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

adamholsinger This movie has it's flaws. I loved Speed Racer when I was little and our entire family saw it in theaters. I was still a kid and I loved it. It still does hold up well even though it has hiccups. Some of the editing and acting is flat, the backgrounds get uncomfortably bright, and the transitions are awkward. But, I have not seen any movie like it. I enjoy the racing scenes, and the action is pretty nice. Spritle and Chim-Chim are entertaining comic reliefs. The movie is light hearten. But, the camera work is not the best. The effects are hit and miss. It is going for it's own style, and it does work most of the time. One thing is for sure, this is my favorite trip movie.

keiranh-205-354645 I understand the desire to bring something to the screen for family enjoyment, but the Wachowski's missed the mark with this confusing, cringe worthy light show. If viewed with your family, I could see how some entertainment could be had, but this film is in no way worth repeating. Apart from the non stop migraine inducing effects, a plot is bordering on non existent, paired with one of the most uncreative ending twists I've seen in a film in a long time. Mindless fun is clearly what they were going for, but the confusion outlasts the aggravating imagery by a long shot. While The Matrix was innovative in the effects department, Speed Racer is overly bright and flashy. In conclusion, this once dynamic set of siblings should make their thought process a part in the making of their next film.