Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted:I'm always glad when someone else likes Speed Racer! Once you can see past the candy-coated visuals, the story is rock-solid and the action fluid and dynamic. The time or chronology distortion in the first act is nothing short of ingenious. One reviewer, I forget who, has called it "The most expensive avant-garde film ever made." Bravissimo.
Chancellor_Ewok posted:Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted:I'm always glad when someone else likes Speed Racer! Once you can see past the candy-coated visuals, the story is rock-solid and the action fluid and dynamic. The time or chronology distortion in the first act is nothing short of ingenious. One reviewer, I forget who, has called it "The most expensive avant-garde film ever made." Bravissimo. Agreed. The Crucible sequence kicks ass. Besides, how can you not like a movie that has race cars driving up verticle cliffs and doing backflips at 600 miles an hour.
Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted:Chancellor_Ewok posted:Merlin_Ambrosius69 posted:I'm always glad when someone else likes Speed Racer! Once you can see past the candy-coated visuals, the story is rock-solid and the action fluid and dynamic. The time or chronology distortion in the first act is nothing short of ingenious. One reviewer, I forget who, has called it "The most expensive avant-garde film ever made." Bravissimo. Agreed. The Crucible sequence kicks ass. Besides, how can you not like a movie that has race cars driving up verticle cliffs and doing backflips at 600 miles an hour. Yeah, and not only are the racing scenes killer, the dialogue exchanges between Speed and the corporate villain (name escapes me) crackle with intensity. Here's a huge corporate-sponsored Hollywood movie spending hundreds of millions of dollars to tell a story about a kid who shirks corporations, spits in the face of big business, and comes out #1 anyway. It's all highly improbable and absurdly colorful, but in the final reel when it counts the most, all Speed's important memories come back to him and help him do the right thing -- which also happens to be the action-adventure/awesome racing finale thing. 4 stars!
