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Movie review: Speed Racer

themovieboy Dustin Putman

Dustin Putman, is a Visual Media & Literature major and member of the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) from the Washington, DC area - he has published over 1,400 full length reviews at his site themovieboy.com, and has been quoted in print advertising, on DVD covers, and in television commercials.

An eye-popping, generously-budgeted adaptation of the 1960s Japanese anime series, "Speed Racer" is a phantasmagoric, candy-colored treat for the senses. In placing live-action actors within largely hyper-realized, digitally-enhanced settings and surroundings, sibling writing-directing team Andy and Larry Wachowski (1999's "The Matrix[http://www.themovieboy.com/reviews/m/99_matrix.htm]," 2003's "The Matrix Reloaded[http://www.themovieboy.com/reviews/m/03_matrixreloaded.htm]" and 2003's "The Matrix Revolutions[http://www.themovieboy.com/reviews/m/03_matrixrevolutions.htm]") have

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  • Sam East says
    Not my kind of movie.
  • Dead Shot says
    I used to watch the anime TV version on Cartoon Network...
    I liked Racer X a lot.. enigmatic fellow?
    Sheesh, i might just watch it because..
    1) I never got to know who Racer X really is !
    2) This is from the brothers who did the Matrix trilogy !

    GO Speed!
  • Gibbo says
    Little bit to arty farty started watching it and stopped. Haven't been tempted to finish it yet! Glad I utorrented it now and didn't go see it at the movies.
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