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Mad Cave Studios and Tatsunoko Productions are putting a whole new spin on a fan-favorite character from the Speed Racer ...
Speed Racer is yet another visual revolution, but this time it's for kids, too. It's everything you'd imagine a live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon series would be, ...
If I were a 9-year-old no doubt that rating would be a gazillion stars instead of two and a half, but I’m a 45-year-old critic who thinks “Speed Racer” is one of the most interesting looking ...
Start Your Engines for Speed Racer, the Cartoon. This spring, it's time to rev up. Speed Racer is not only getting a feature film this May, but now also its own animated series, Speed Racer: The ...
When Emile Hirsch watched reruns of the 1960s cartoon “Speed Racer” on MTV in the 1990s, he fell in love.So it’s only fitting that he should star as the hero of the title in the live-action ...
Speed freaks, rejoice. The Wachowski brothers may have had little kids in mind when translating the classic "Speed Racer" cartoon to the bigscreen, but they've given the show's grown-up fans ...
The best aspect of the new "live action" movie Speed Racer is that it's everything a fan of the original 1960s Japanese anime cartoon could wish for in a modern, big money, computer-enhanced ...
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 ...
The Wachowskis’ Speed Racer movie isn’t the first reinvention of the rubber-burning cartoon since its 1960s heyday. There’s been a long line of Racer relaunches, sequels and spin-offs, many ...
An expert car customiser has transformed a 94 Corvette into a stunning replica of the Mach 5 from the iconic 1960’s cartoon Speedracer. Jerry Patrick, who owns car replica extraordinaire AKA Junk, has ...
"Speed Racer" seems stuck in the slow lane. By Carl DiOrio, The Associated Press “Speed Racer” seems stuck in the slow lane. The Wachowski siblings-directed film opens Friday in about 3,600 ...
Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action adaptation written and directed by Matrix creators Larry and Andy Wachowski. And even they might feel an urge ...