'Speed Racer' film is a colorful, amusing ride

 

Published: May 9, 2008

Writer-directors Andy and Larry Wachowski don't stray far from the source for their film version of "Speed Racer,” a bizarrely entertaining "live-action anime” feature.

The brothers craft a surreal, candy-colored, retro-futuristic world for their adaptation of the 1960s Japanese cartoon series. In this alternate universe, race cars engage in kung fu-style battles, racetracks are more roller coaster than Formula ...


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