dont agree with me? watch starship troopers or tell me a movie that talked about this year as the future and nailed it.

what year was speedracer in ANYWAY? they made it TOO MUCH like the show- but that was in the 70’s- so is this in the year 2069 or the 70’s? you cant tell this movie was the worst combination of the future and the past. the one thing they changed about it is the stupidest thing.
“hey lets leave all the homoness the way it was in the cartoon show even though our biggest fans are now 40 but we have to make changes so lets change the time it was supposed to take place and make it the year 3000 but still make them look like elvis pressly look alikes”

The critics can blow me!

The little ones in our audience loved it and I bet they tell all their friends. I suspect that it’s gonna be a sleeper hit.

It had potential. The over stylized look was destined to be a love or hate thing.

And while you are criticizing John’s choices for superheros he would like to see in film and using that as the basis to establish our bad taste you rave about Speed Racer and call Transformers garbage?

Back atcha kiddo!

and i wont get into transformers being beter then speedracer or else the message this comment will be about 8 paragraphs long.

oh yeah i tottaly agree- it was made for the younger crowd and that was a stupid move. it was the older people, some grown up some younger but its older people that used to watch this show not the kind of people that would watch a PG movie. this should have been made more serious and more- well…”dark” i guess. i think the show stopped being played EVERYDAY like in the 90s or something. the kids now watch other things, and the ones that do want to watch speedracer is probably because of the trailers or maybe they have a dvd at home from their dad or soemthing.
as for the risk, it was unessesary and stupid, they could have had more viewers if it was aimed at people 13 and older. AND it still would have been cool enough to atract a bunch of kids.

and yeah another thing is the timming which was horrible but that doesnt have to do THAT much with the movie. if they did make it for an older audience wed be talking about how narnia had bad timing not speedracer.

It was very unique in its execution leaning heavily on the camp of the original cartoon series. The choice to go with the eyecandy overkill was risky since people could love it or hate it.

There was also some timing issues. Bringing out a movie aimed at children, on Mother’s day weekend, right after Ironman and before Caspian. I don’t know that this COULD have succeeded.

If it was sold off season in a slow week they could have triumphed in the kiddie crowds (my children are DYING to see this) but it had too much going against it.

If the style caught on, it could have rocked. Wachowskis are going to have to do something that doesnt lean on their “the guys who brought you the Matrix” reputation anymore.