There is but one memorable line in all of Speed Racer, delivered by John Goodman. I guess the Wachowski brothers thought if they threw the vomitous dialogue between infinite montages, we might not notice the bad taste in our mouths. Smith’s second grade English as a second language class. The plot, which was so horrible and was challenging for me to summarize, was only slightly more complicated than creative writing projects completed by seven year olds in Ms. If there had been a proper writer or director, someone probably would have noticed there is only a Saturday morning cartoon episode amount of a plot – it’s taffy-pulled to 129 minutes. Speed Racer is one of the most impeccable examples of why the writer and director should not be the same people.
Speed, as you may have guessed, must stop him. Determined to not let the boy win any more races, Royalton (Roger Allam) does everything possible to ruin Speed’s team. He excels of course, much to the ire of a competing outfit, Royalton Industries. At the first chance he gets, Speed becomes a professional race car driver himself, driving the Mach 5, a vehicle built by his father, Pops (John Goodman). The film follows the exploits of Speed Racer (Young: Nicholas Elia, Old: Emile Hirsch), a boy fixated on race cars and becoming a driver thanks, in part, to his older brother Rex Racer (Scott Porter), who had already raced professionally. They mix Speed Racer as well as chlorine and ammonia go together (look it up, it’s not good).įor those who don’t recall, Speed Racer was a campy anime cartoon that found a following in the states in the late 1960’s and 70’s (I only remember the chimp Chim-Chim). Someone should have let Andy and Larry Wachowski in on that secret. Movies have to find that same mix of novelty and realism to be enjoyed. It is fun because it is just realistic enough to be believable but novel enough to be fun. You fly off ramps, go upside down and avoid obstacles. My husband and I have been playing a free race car game called TrackMania and we’ve become addicted.
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