Speed Racer is getting released in Beirut tonight (two days ahead of US release) and even though there are demonstrations and strikes taking place at the moment the movies are open as usual. Hopefully it will turn out to be good since I’ve always been a fan of the original cartoon. Will post my feedback later tonight.
update: I just got back from watching Speed Racer. I was the only one at the premier I guess because of all the rioting and blocked roads today in Lebanon. The movie was over 2 hours long but it was pretty good. I was worried the style of the movie would turn out childish but it was actually cool. Its extremely colorful, like you need to be on acid to watch this movie kind of colorful. The races are action packed and super fast and my favorite character Racer X was really cool. Only thing disappointing is that they didn’t play the Speed Racer theme song as often as I would have hoped for. The movie should be watchable in Kuwait with only 1 scene that would probably be cut and its a kiss in the last scene of the movie.
20 replies on “Speed Racer Tonight”
never heard of that movie
Go Speed Racer..Gooooo!!
don’t you have work to do?
ive seen the trailers…the movie just looks too kiddish..
Eddy, I think so too. The movie industry ran out of new ideas so they started this stupid move of remaking every 1970s and 80s cartoons into movies.
It’s going to be released in Kuwait tomorrow (Thursday 08/05/08)
=S Never saw any trailers of it so not too sure what to expect.
it’s for children for god sake.
watching it tonight hope it will be good and worth it .it got bad reviews all over the internet 🙁
That’s not true. Most of the speed racer fans are people like me who watched it in the 80s while growing up. That would put the target to 25 and up.
This also isn’t a cartoon but even if it was look at how much audience pixars animation gets.
sounds interesting and promising
“like you need to be on acid to watch this movie kind of colorful.” I love this sentence 😛
Going to check it out tomorrow, thanks for the heads up 2 hours, now that’s quite long.
Mark : Pixar movies are family movies , children won’t watch it the same way you do , that’s why thier scripts are adorable and sometimes nominated to the Academy of oscar , unlike these stupid movies which dont have any good script .
and you can’t just do anything you do in the past specially if it was bad ( critics word ) .
Maybe you should watch the movie first before talking about the script and if its a good movie or not.
well Mark it’s seems that you are the only one who said that this movie is any good , Critics hate it , even poeple over imdb , and of course , i don’t waste my money on crap and support it .
All I am saying is if u want to critisize a movie u need to have watched it atleast or else u don’t have an argument. Spiderman made a lot of money and got positive feedback but it was one hell of a shity movie for example
you have your own opinion ( speed racer is pretty good ), I have mine ( Spiderman 2 is the best superhero movie ever made ) , but there is facts and we can’t deny it , and that’s the critics word , thier jop is to tell you the truth weather you\i like it or not and …
wait , i guess we lost our point in this argument , you liked the movie ? it’s ok, thanks bye .
i remeber watching this while growing up ,it was one of my favourites and the general audience meant for is not 25+ im 15 and i remeber watching that on cartoon network
hi there.
well i seen the movie last monday and also i liked the movie basically bcos its a wachoski bro movie. like u said, they didnt play the theme music of speed racer until the race country cross off-track race & talking of kisses, it seems there more than 1 kiss in the movie. the 2nd which u seemed to forget that it came around during the first hour of the movie, in the car ( b4 Speed racer decides to go the Country Cross Race). Anyway it was worth watching the movie, seemed just like younger days. Seeing all the fancy gadgets fitted into the Mach 4.