The Wachowski Brothers have made some interesting accomplishments in film, and now they've taken on a different kind of challenge: working with animals and children. Ironically, the film is not bad, even if it is for kids.
I think there's a reason they call it "Speed" Racer. It is clearly a drug film. Like "The Matrix" and "V for Vendetta", Speed is full of flashy visuals that could give you seizures. On acid, the schizophrenic color wheel wielded by the Wachowskis would be amazing.
The Brothers do an excellent job of making the film still look like a cartoon while still maintaining some credibility. That means, they don't become retarded or sloppy. In fact, they take the show to a new level.
The story was pretty bad, but forgivable. In fact, the thing this reminds me of the most is all the podracing in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Speaking of which, there is a new Star Wars coming out, based on the Clone Wars, that is completely CGI. It seems that Star Wars gets progressively more fake, but all films seem that way now.
It was Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park that brought CGI to the big screen. Things haven't been the same since then. Now we have Beowulf and Transformers and 300, some of the worst movies I have ever seen. But other than that, I don't know why I complain about the integrity of CGI films. I don't think there has ever been integrity in Hollywood. In fact, everyone moved there a long time ago to evade the patent laws that Thomas Edison implemented. The whole city has been a group of thieves from the beginning. Film itself is made out of dead horses.
But anyway, Speed Racer was quite good.
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