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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 17 Oct 2013

It's a family film done as a trip film. It is a trip, but it's a bad trip…

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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 21 Sep 2013

This one is a kiddie show all the way, with characters as broad and one-dimensional as a billboard, a vision of good and evil as simple as…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 19 Apr 2013

Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action adaptation written and directed by Matrix creators Larry…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 22 Mar 2013

The state of mind brought on by Speed Racer the movie is more akin to that phenomenon by which young infants, exposed to more stimuli than…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 29 Jan 2013

The movie demands you be a glutton for sensation and then has the nerve to ask why you're not hungrier…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 09 Jul 2012

It's hard to say whether the Wachowski brothers' live action take on the Japanese Speed Racer cartoons is more irritating because it looks…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 20 Mar 2012

Borderline-experimental in the way it challenges the limits of perception. It's forward-thinking, visionary, and much of the time unwatchable…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for Premiere (771) on 24 Aug 2011

This is not a film occurring in an alternate or imaginary reality; rather, it is a film of NO reality, that is, a picture that changes the…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 23 May 2011

The cast is generally game for playing cardboard cutouts, with Goodman having the most fun…

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By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

The filmic side effect of eating an entire bowl full of sugar, Speed Racer is designed entirely with one audience in mind, and despite it's…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Mar 2011

Orgy, hell: The film is like a nightmare in which you're trapped in an arcade with screens on all sides and no eyelids…

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By Ian Nathan (392) for Empire (3,446) on 21 Feb 2011

It'll split the ranks like a pizza cutter: you might admire it as a Warholian blur of pop art, gawp and gasp at its Hot Wheels-for-real dynamism,…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Feb 2011

Chances are, after they've passed the two-hour mark, viewers will share the same collective, if unspoken, wish: Go, Speed Racer. Go…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 08 Nov 2010

There is one high note. You can approach Speed Racer as the trippiest stonerfest since Stanley Kubrick took his space odyssey…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Nov 2010

This toxic admixture of computer-generated frenzy and live-action torpor succeeds in being, almost simultaneously, genuinely painful -- the…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 29 Mar 2010

At its best, it's buoyant pop entertainment focused on three things: speed, racing and retina-splitting oceans of digitally captured color…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 25 Aug 2009

What grounds the spectacle, pushing it beyond a two-hour ejaculation of sensation, is its yearning for innocence…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 17 Aug 2009

If this action extravaganza represents the future of movies, it's going to be a sad, dead and awful future…

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By Lawrence Toppman (1,654) for Charlotte Observer (1,670) on 29 May 2009

Speed Racer is chaotic as a six-ring circus, gaudy as a transvestites convention and soullessly cute as a robot puppy…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 14 May 2009

Though the film is not as criminally poor as V for Vendetta, which the Wachowskis wrote in 2005, it struck me as more insidious…

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