#Speed racer 2008 movie#
#Speed racer 2008 series#

#Speed racer 2008 series#

This series featured the last regular releases of 3SP and 5DOT wheels, on 6 and 5 releases respectively. All castings were designed by Jun Imai and sculpted by Manson Cheung. If you liked this, please read our other reviews here and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter or Instagram or like us on Facebook.This is a list of Hot Wheels that came out in the 2008 Speed Racer series, based on the film and video game of the same name from the same year. If you like this review, look me up on Instagram for more suggestions. In the end, Speed Racer is not as exciting as it could have been, but it is also not as bad as people thought of when it first came out. The standout, though, is Matthew Fox who was great as Racer X. Hirsch is a good lead, Christina Ricci brings the right quirkiness to Trixie, and Goodman and Susan Sarandon make a good pairing as the parents. Meanwhile, the cast delivers for the most part.

The racing scenes are, of course, the highlights, and they are so imaginative and insane you can feel your heart accelerating. The narrative style of the film is amazing, and the visuals are truly incredible to watch. Though if the Wachowski underperform as writers, they more than make it up as directors.

#Speed racer 2008 movie#

The movie is visually quite arresting, but the story never takes it to the next level, which is a bummer. The excitement never comes from where it should come from the first place: the story, the characters, the conflicts. The script is not really complex or layered which might be the biggest problem of Speed Racer. They embraced their kid friendly film and did the best they could with it. Night Shyamalan who after The Sixth Sense was always expected to deliver an exciting twist.īut the Wachowski sisters were not interested in doing more of the same. Maybe the biggest example of that “curse” is M. This is a clear case of a previous film so strongly establishing a style to its director (in this case, directors), and creating an expectation of more of the same. Therefore older audiences expecting something more like The Matrix series got disappointed. The story may not be highly inventive or complex but it’s pretty clear that the target audience were children. The problem that led to Speed Racer‘s underperforming at the box office had nothing to do with the quality of the film itself. When the pilot refuses his invitation, Royalton shows him his true colors and they clash.

Speed then grows old and becomes a racer himself, grabbing the attention of Royalton (Roger Allam) who wants Speed to race for him. One day, Rex has a fallout with their father Pops (Goodman) and leaves home and soon after, dies in an accident. Speed Racer tells the story of Speed (Hirsch), a kid who is totally into car racing, mostly because of his hero, his older brother Rex (Scott Porter). In fact, the film is far from bad, and it didn’t deserve that bad reputation. Unfortunately when it was finally released, it didn’t perform well and it became branded a disappointment. Upon the announcement that it was indeed Speed Racer, well… anticipation went through the roof. It’s understandable why after the revolution that was The Matrix series, everyone eagerly anticipated what they would do next.

When Speed Racer was released in 2008, expectations were quite high for the new movie from the Wachowski sisters. This results in some getting a reputation that isn’t always deserved. The bad part of it is that, when the expectation are set too high, it usually doesn’t end well when it doesn’t perform.