Speed Racer

2008

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Sci-Fi / Sport

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 219 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 82665 82.7K

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Plot summary

Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.

Director

Andy Wachowski Photo
Andy Wachowski

Top cast

Jana Pallaske Photo
Jana Pallaske as Delila
Art LaFleur Photo
Art LaFleur as Fuji Announcer
Werner Daehn Photo
Werner Daehn as Sempre Fi-Ber Leader
John Goodman Photo
John Goodman as Pops
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851.63 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 7
1.80 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 100

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ustickemily 7 / 10

Could be higher if it wasn't for...

I don't love nor hate this film. I enjoy it unlike the haters.The visuals and acting, plus soundtrack are spot on. I used to have a crush on Emile Hirsch in this film.But honestly, I could rate this movie higher if Spirtle and his pet monkey wasn't so annoying in this movie. That's my only problem with this film.
Reviewed by ma-cortes 7 / 10

Pleasing and grandly amusing adventure about a crack racer based on a Japanese classic cartoon

This tale starts with Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch), he is an aggressive, impetuous, and brave crack pilot to win breathtaking world races. He lives with his mom (Susan Sarandon) and Pops racer (John Goodman) who designs a fabulous car along with a mechanic(Kirk Gurry), the Match 5 . The proprietary of Royal Industries does him a lavish offer but he rejects it. And he also uncovers a dark secret about the biggest races are being fixed . Speed Racer must save the sport he loves and his family racing business. Then Speed join forces with his one time rival Racer X (Matthew Fox) to win ¨Casa Cristo¨ rally , a cross country race, competing against dangerous racers and a shifty Japonese racer(Rain) and ultimately the ¨Grand Prix¨.This exciting movie contains thrills, action-packed, tension, suspense and overwhelming races, but also some commercial elements. This is a dynamic, fast-paced and amusing movie. Full of action, its complemented by silly comedy in charge of a little boy and a monkey. The picture relies heavily on the overlong and death-defying races that are incredible and magnificently made by 3D computer generator. The story moves like a supersonic bullet for most of its running time and the last generation of fantastic cars steal the show. Contrived beyond belief with spectacular races that play like video games, but slickly calculated to please 2000 audiences and children especially. Emile Hirsch as valiant racer is good, he's an instinctive, stubborn and valiant young man. Susan Sarandon and John Goodman are sympathetic as his affectionate parents and Christina Ricci is beautiful as his love interest. Colorful cinematography plenty of pastel and glimmer color by David Tattersall. Impressive and groundbreaking production design by Owen Patterson. Stirring and moving musical score by Michael Giacchino, usual of J.J. Abrahams movies. The motion picture is well directed by the brothers Larry and Andy Wachowski adapting the famous Japonese anime . The Wachowski, also screenwriters(Speed Racer, V for vendetta)achieved his big success with Matrix trilogy and here get another great hit.
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