speed racer 2008 pops gets mad at spritle

You could push them along all manner of terrain-across the floor, up the cabinets, under the toaster, down Mom's back, over the dog-while ignoring all laws of physics (hey, I was only 6). You could hurtle them across the kitchen floor like a game of marbles, crashing them in your own demolition derby. Two climactic races might be one more than any film can successfully sustain.Any little boys who grew up with Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars like I did probably played with them in three different ways.

The possible miscalculation here are the wearying number of races that all look alike no matter what the backgrounds. Like any good video game, each race happens in a completely different environment from tropical island loop-the-loops to a race that starts in a North African desert, takes off into a Mediterranean Grand Corniche and winds up at the Brandenberg Gate. Speed and his family-designed car, the Mach 5 - which looks like a souped-up Corvette by ways of Q’s gadget factory in the James Bond series - take on this Evil Empire in race after race, with help from the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox), Speed’s multitalented girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci in her least interesting role ever) and a ambiguous Japanese racer (Korean pop singer Rain). He fixes races, probably killed Rex and when Speed turns down a lucrative driving contract, he means to destroy the Racers. The film, which the Wachowskis also wrote, pits the Racer family of car nuts - Rex, long dead thanks to race track malevolence young brother Speed (Emile Hirsch) Pops (John Goodman) Mom (Susan Sarandon) kid brother Spritle (Paulie Litt) and a chimp named Chim Chim - against an evil automotive magnate (Roger Allam). Story and character are tossed aside to focus obsessively on PG-rated action and milk-guzzling heroes.

Unlike a Pixar cartoon that embraces as wide an audience as possible, Speed Racer proudly denies entry into its ultra-bright world to all but gamers, fanboys and anime enthusiasts. While multitudes of young people the world over undoubtedly will make a dash for this new movie experience from the siblings who created The Matrix series, the film plays very young. This causes the sensation of being trapped inside a 3-D video game. The basic laws of gravity and aerodynamics aren’t simply denied they are totally repealed. In this aggressively rudimentary emotional drama designed - literally - around impossible racing car action, actors are painted into a cartoon world through CGI and vividly colored backgrounds as images move across the screen like shifting panels in a comic strip. Amid the current push by filmmakers to deny photo-reality in favor of animated impressionism comes Speed Racer, a Wachowski Brothers motion picture derived from a ’60s Japanese cartoon television series that is itself inspired by a Japanese manga.

Speed racer 2008 pops gets mad at spritle