According to New York, Speed Racer is:
like a nightmare in which you’re trapped in an arcade with screens on all sides and no eyelids.
And:
the simple act of watching the trailer on YouTube hypnotized everyone we know into buying a copy of Catcher in the Rye and climbing a water tower.
So of course I’m going to watch it this weekend. I mean, right now. My AIM is officially “away.”
Image courtesy of Warner Bros. because that’s what it says on the other sites.
This production still is fucking stunning. Why can’t there be reviews written purely on a movie’s hallucinatory value?
I’m kind of stoked to see this.
I saw it in IMAX and it was actually pretty amazing. It reminded me of FLCL or some of the better fast-paced, post-modern anime of recent years. It was very fun, psychedelic, irreverent, and interesting. Basically like “SUPERFLAT: The Movie”. It was also pretty stupid in some ways, but I think that was all kind of on purpose. I’d say that even if it wasn’t 100% successful, this movie is one of the most experimental major studio films in a LONG time.
PS- Christina Ricci was great (hot) in it.