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Speed Racer (2008)

6.3 | May 07, 2008 (US) | Family, Action, Adventure, Comedy | 02:15
Budget: 120 000 000 | Revenue: 93 900 000

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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.

Featured Crew

Writer, Director, Producer
Writer, Director, Producer
Stunt Coordinator
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Stunt Coordinator
First Assistant Director
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Stunts
Stunts
Costume Design

Cast

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Emile Hirsch
Speed Racer
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John Goodman
Pops Racer
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Susan Sarandon
Mom Racer
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Matthew Fox
Racer X
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Benno Fürmann
Inspector Detector
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Hiroyuki Sanada
Mr. Musha
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Rain
Taejo Togokahn
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Karl Yune
Taejo Body Guard

Reviews

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Wehrmacht
4 | Oct 12, 2020
The only people who'll enjoy this Attention-Deficit-Disorder nightmare are those who've never seen an episode of the original anime in their lives. In other words, children. Sure, there's some fun to be had for adults in seeing how all of the well-known characterisations from your own childhood have been lobotomised by their modern, live action counterparts. Ultimately, though, you'll come to the conclusion that "Speed" was what the director(s) were on when they spliced together 120 minutes worth of 3-second zoom/pan/sensory-overload scenes. Your eyes, and very probably your brain, will be dissolving by the end of this acid trip, so exhausting are the visuals. It's _almost_ as if they wanted to go the **complete opposite** of the original series' sparsely-detailed animation by packing every single frame as full of colour & movement & distraction & pointlessness as they possibly could. No, not _almost_... it's what they actually did! Adults should press their "A" button and leap over this drivel.