{"id":9905,"date":"2015-06-12T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2015-06-06T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T23:53:19","slug":"speed-racer-2008-wachowskis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9905","title":{"rendered":"Speed Racer (2008, Wachowskis)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most inventive “live-action cartoon” movie?<\/p>\n

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The bright, color-manipulated sets ensure that we don’t take the action seriously for even a second – which is good, since the movie is a fairly faithful adaptation of the horrendous Speed Racer<\/em> series, in which the mysterious Racer X is actually Speed’s brother. The movie’s main contribution (besides toning down the part of Chim-Chim) is a twist: Racer X turns out not to be Speed’s brother! But wait, another twist: Racer X is really Speed’s brother!<\/p>\n

Not toned-down: Spritle<\/em>
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Evil racers with dollars in their eyes:<\/em>
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Speed is Emile Hirsch, having a big year with this between Into the Wild<\/a><\/em> and Milk<\/a><\/em>, with Christina Ricci as Trixie. His overqualified parents: Susan Sarandon and John Goodman (dressed like Super Mario). Rain (I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK<\/a><\/em>) is a friend\/enemy\/informant\/fall guy, Royalton (Al Gore-looking Roger Allam of The Angels’ Share<\/a><\/em> and V for Vendetta<\/em>) is the corporate baddie, and Matthew Fox (TV’s Lost<\/em>) is Racer X, who is emphatically not Speed’s brother (yes he is!)!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most inventive “live-action cartoon” movie? The bright, color-manipulated sets ensure that we don’t take the action seriously for even a second – which is good, since the movie is a fairly faithful adaptation of the horrendous Speed Racer series, in which the mysterious Racer X is actually Speed’s brother. The movie’s main contribution (besides […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,96,514,139,48,179,1960,92,1436],"class_list":["post-9905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-animation","tag-christina-ricci","tag-comics","tag-john-goodman","tag-remake","tag-susan-sarandon","tag-video-games","tag-wachowskis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9986,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/9986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}