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I have already begun shopping for our very own family chim-chim

And you can’t protect your kids forever. Perhaps they’ve already seen people “flicked” off. Also, it was so brief, some kids never saw it.

And yet, moviegoing audiences have proven their willingness to support films that critics have hated in the past, but as the weekend numbers show, they’re not doing so with Speed Racer. So, at the very least, I think this proves that something is wrong here, that goes well beyond “WAHHH TEH CRITICS ARE BEING BULLIES!!!111ELEVENTY-ONE”

Then again, I always hated the original Speed Racer cartoon, even though I loved about 90 percent of the imported Japanese cartoons from that era (Speed Racer struck me as being the most bargain-basement and patronizing of them all, even when I was in grade school), so I had no interest in seeing this movie anyway.

With any luck, this will prevent the planned Amerizanized live-action version of Akira from ever being made. Akira deserves better.

Speed Racer, however, blew me away by the entertainment value! It was a visual orgy and feast for the eyes in large spots but slowed down to give some nice exposition. Racer X was way cool and the twist at the end of it for his character was great. Fuck the critics! This was WAY BETTER than Iron Man could have hoped to have been in my eyes. Iron Man was great but Speed was at least 10 times more fun and WAY more enjoyable! The story is a typical one and you’ve been there before but the ride was much more fun. I could have sat through it again, which I didn’t want to do with Iron Man…at least not for a while.

Go see it with an open mind and I think a lot of people will enjoy it on here. The time length for it sure didn’t see like a 2 hour and 15 minute movie…the best part is the super cool race in the middle. The Casa Cristo 500 race as it featured the Mach 5 in all it’s glory. The Brothers have made up for the Matrix 2 and 3 in my eyes.

I want SPEED RACER 2!!!!

Yeah, I wouldn’t count on a sequel.

So there’s zero chance of there being a sequel, right?

And a baker’s dozen of Chim Chim cookies for them!

And I’m definitely down for something like that.

The movies starts with him failing a test and a teacher saying “all he talks about…all he seems capable of thinking about..is racing cars.”

Speed Racer in this film is futuristic white trash. Embrace it…he races cars fast, has since he was a child, grew up in a family of mechanics, and now he’s the best. He missed piano lessons and isn’t going to talk politics. He doesn’t want to sign contracts with major sponsors because daddy says they’re the devil. This film IS character driven, only the character isn’t aspirational..but he’s absolutely respectable.

Spritle was hilarious and I laughed out loud several times at his and Chim Chim’s cartoony deliveries. It’s in every way a cartoon movie…like Popeye or Dick Tracy …but very well designed. It’s not theme park design..it’s mod…it’s retro future…and today. The details are beautiful.

I started reading reviews after watching the film on Friday and found the critical reception ridiculous. They all dug into the Wachowski’s or the classic cartoon..the context was a killer on this film…they would not let it be a family movie. A kid’s movie. They wanted retribution for the Matrix 2 and 3.

Speed Racer is very very good. Go watch it. Then tell a friend.

Seriously though, every time I see the Speed Racer trailer I get jazzed up to see the film, but five minutes later I’ve lost that feeling unlike with Iron Man. Speed Racer: the chinese food of cinema.