Here’s your first seven minutes of The Wachoski Brothers’ cinematic hard candy.
“This is a deranged, steroid-cranked family-action movie…the work of madmen — undeniably brash and looney and, I feel, desperately in need of a quaalude. Speed Racer is a piece of very audacious, high-quality….I was going to say “torture” but it’s not. It’s extremely nervy filmmaking…The performances are okay, but I found more fascination in the face of Chim-Chim than anything the humans came up with. I loved that fucking monkey…” - Jeffrey Wells
“It’s a terrible stereotype… but it is quite fascinating to me that the negative reviews of Speed Racer all seem to sound the same.
‘It’s too loud!’
‘It’s too fast!’
‘It’s too long!’
‘Too many colors!’
I am sympathetic to complaints about the visual intensity of this film. Seeing the film in IMAX last night was a bit of sensory overload. Very intense. And exhausting. (And in many ways glorious.)” - “No Movie For Old Men” - David Poland
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