Do you plan to see Speed Racer? - VIDEO

May 07th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: TV on the Bigscreen, Video, Animation, Reality-Free

I enjoyed Speed Racer when I was a kid. I haven’t seen it in 25 years or so and I’d probably be horrified now by what my youthful tastes were back next, but I remember liking the race scenes and what the car could do. I remember wanting my first car to be one that would have buzzsaws come out of the front and a big lever that would come down underneath the car that would assemble it jump by other cars.

That final feature doesn’t seem like it would work to me, now that I think about it as an adult.

Anyway, the live-action version with Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, and Matthew Fox opens that Friday. And the early buzz is that it’s not going to do as well as they were hoping it would.

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