Likewise, anyone who loves escapist entertainment will dig the over-the-top, stylized action, while those endlessly searching for ‘Matrix’ sequel redemption will once again be left in the cold. Purists will enjoy the haphazard frivolity of the experience far more than inductees looking for a casual modernization of a dated anime series. As a result, your reaction to the rainbow-swirled, syrupy toothache that is ‘Speed Racer’ will depend entirely upon your expectations and tastes. Like its source material (and any other animated nonsense you might stumble across on a Saturday morning in the ‘80s), the film’s racing sequences abandon physics, clarity, and narrative flow, while quieter scenes tend to ignore subtlety, emotional complexity, and proper character development. ’Speed Racer’ isn’t a live-action adaptation of a cartoon, it is a live-action cartoon. His goal? To reveal Royalton’s fraud and racing’s widespread corruption. With the help of the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox), the elusive Inspector Detector (Benno Furmann), his girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci), and the family’s trust mechanic Sparky (Kick Gurry), Speed secretly enters the same race that killed his brother in an attempt to earn a spot in the league’s Grand Prix. Royalton (Roger Allam) tries to woo Speed away from his family’s ideals, the young prodigy discovers his favorite sport has been rigged by wealthy fat-cats for decades. However, when a smarmy industrialist named Mr. Thankfully, Speed’s parents, Pops and Mom Racer (John Goodman and Susan Sarandon), recognized the source of Rex’s turn and raised Speed to follow his heart instead of money or the corporations that dominate racing. ‘Speed Racer’ tells the tale of, you guessed it, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch), a young throttle junkie itching to restore his family’s reputation after his older brother Rex (Scott Porter), an international record-setter, followed a dark path and was tragically killed in a cross-continental circuit race. Yet despite overwhelmingly negative press, I was left wondering: could it really be that bad? The Wachowskis' colorful production was released into a critical firestorm that derided every scene, trivialized every visual, and insulted every actor involved. That is until fallen-angel directors Larry and Andy Wachowski (still recovering from the beating they received in the aftermath of the ‘Matrix’ sequels) signed on to bring ‘Speed Racer’ to the big screen. Abrams, Hype Williams, and Vince Vaughn to name a few - but no one was able to get the project off the ground. Countless names have been attached to the project - Johnny Depp, Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuaron, J.J. You might be surprised to learn that a cinematic adaptation of the classic “Speed Racer” cartoon has been in the works at Warner Brothers since 1992.
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