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Good Day, I finally got to see Speed Racer last night and it has gotten good to me. I was a fan of the original cartoon as a child and was looking forward to the movie, at the very least expecting the Wachowski Bros to visually stun me. Call me a peasant but the first 10-15 minutes just felt like waaaay too much info for my pea-pickin brain and I was ready to call it a day. Paused movie, caught breath, excused wife from accompaniment duties and retried. I’ve watched it three times at this point. The movie is visually stunning and once my mind adjusted to the pacing it was great. Fun elements from the original cartoon are all over this movie (Sparky’s reaction shots are classic stuff) right down to the closing wheel spin. I would venture a guess that a lot of people who anticipated enjoying this movie didn’t but if they would give it a second go they would find it to be massive fun. On the third viewing I was still picking up visuals that earlier I had missed completely, perhaps I’m just getting slow. Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci are wonderful as Speed and Trixie.
Why is it that a movie that you could barely sit through at the theatre can be so enjoyable at home? It’s not that hard to sit still for two hours, or is it?
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