Dumb Guy Reviews: Speed Racer

• NOTE: I've never seen an episode of Speed Racer.
  
• All I knew going into this film was that Speed Racer was a cartoon from Japan and he drove a race car.
  
• So maybe it's not fair for me to judge certain elements because maybe they are true to the T.V. show, but it's a movie so....
• It didn't suck.
• The tone of the film is completely inconsistent. One minute they are kung fu fighting, the next minute they are laughing really fast, then next minute they are afraid for their lives, the next minute they are making funny faces in the camera.
• I'd take Sarandon over Ricci, anyday. Ricci was a bombshell back in the day. Now she looks like--eyes on a stick.
• I can only assume that Speed's little brother was the comic relief in the TV show.
• He looks 35. He's very dramatic and likes to play with chimps. Hey, like Michael Jackson!
• What the hell is John Goodman doing in this film? I like John, sometimes, but he seemed out of place and looked like Mario from Mario Brothers.
• This movie was a cross between Spy Kids and Death Race. Not with content but with look and race action.
• I was pretty sickened at first when Trixie and Speed were gonna kiss, cause there was nothing that made me think they weren't brother and sister. Especially since she called his dad, "Pops" and she was always in his house.
• Near the end when the family was hiding listening to Speed's talk with dad.... I totally thought that the Mom was caught cheating with the mechanic dude in the kitchen. That's the way it was filmed...first you see mechanic, then a slow walk out by mom... I was like, WHA!
• Atleast the chimp wasn't shown smoking a cigarette or playing poker or something. Didn't the chimp throw poo at one point?! Wow, totally weird.
• And yes, the whole Rex Racer thing was totally predictable. Never was I questioning it.
  
• So what was good? The racing and some of the effects. I guess you'd expect Speed Racer to be about Speed and Racing, so there it is.
• A realfilmrating of M3
  

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