They say if you can't say something nice don't say anything. Yea well...The performances are fine... I can't for the life of me say anything nice other than that, other than maybe its not quite as hyperactive as some have claimed. Unreal mix of live action and animation this is a perfect example of a visual wizards art. No doubt this film looks exactly the way the directors wanted it to be. The problem is that in throwing money at the visuals they forgot things like the ability to follow the races, excitement, a script. This is someone's idea of what speed racer is not what it really is. I grew up on the TV show and I recognized visual steals and the way that things were done in the cartoon, but where the cartoon had reasons for doing things they way they did, here they simply rip off the shots but have nothing behind them.The shots made you feel and moved the story, they didn't just look cool. They use the shots because they think it will play the same way, which it doesn't. Who did they make this for? Its not for adults. Its not really for women or girls. I think only young boys will like this since it will mirror an adolescent fantasy. Whats worse the film drones on and on and on and on.It never ends, it never builds to anything its either a scene of exposition or one of frantic visuals. I don't like it. I don't know what I would call it, its not a good film or a fair film or even an okay one, but its not "bad" in any classic sense. its dull and boring and way too hyperactive...then again maybe Bad sums it up.
Review of Speed Racer
