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Movie Review: 'Speed Racer'
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Epoch Times
- 5/10/2008
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Revolutionaries of modern, effects-filled cinema, the brothers Wachowski first dazzled the world with sci-fi action blockbuster, The Matrix. Now, after lesser but still satisfactory sequels and a protracted producing break, they're back and impressing us all over again with their visionary new relea
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Film review: Speed Racer
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The Onion AV Club
- 5/10/2008
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The Wachowski brothers have officially left this mortal coil. Any suggestion that a live-action take on a frivolous '60s anime series would represent a downshift in ambition after The Matrix trilogy is dispelled within the first few seconds of Speed Racer, which seems to take the concept of 600 km/h
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Capsule reviews of `Speed Racer and other films this week
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MyMotherLode.com
- 5/9/2008
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'The Fall' _ This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic. Indian writer-director Tarsem Singh, who just goes by the name Tarsem, knows how to create some sumptuous visuals, as he did with his similarly gorgeous but pretentious 2000 thriller 'T
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Capsule reviews of 'Speed Racer' and other films this week
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Las Cruces Sun-News
- 5/9/2008
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'The Fall'รข??This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic. Indian writer-director Tarsem Singh, who just goes by the name Tarsem, knows how to create some sumptuous visuals, as he did with his similarly gorgeous but pretentious 2000 thriller 'T
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Review: 'Speed Racer' spins by screen at nauseating, wearing pace
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Salt Lake Tribune
- 5/9/2008
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This is a movie that takes its theme-song lyric, 'Go, Speed Racer, go,' as gospel. It is all movement, all razzle-dazzle, all go-go-go. This worked well for the Wachowski brothers when they created the groundbreaking vision of 'The Matrix' trilogy - but in this adaptation of the '60s Japanese cartoo
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Film review: 'Speed Racer' offers escapism with morality
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Commercial Appeal
- 5/9/2008
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From the Day-Glo pop of its computer-generated environments to the '2001'-like rush of its almost abstract action climax, 'Speed Racer' may be the most extreme head-trip movie for kids since Gene Wilder conducted us to a lethal candyland in 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' almost four decad
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Capsule reviews of `Speed Racer' and others
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WWL-TV
- 5/9/2008
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'The Fall' - This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic. Indian writer-director Tarsem Singh, who just goes by the name Tarsem, knows how to create some sumptuous visuals, as he did with his similarly gorgeous but pretentious 2000 thriller 'T
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Review: `Speed Racer' just spinning its wheels - AP
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Yahoo!
- 5/9/2008
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The Wachowski brothers have tumbled into a matrix of their own with 'Speed Racer,' one which has rendered them completely out of touch with the outside world. In adapting the 1960s Japanese anime television series, writer-directors Larry and Andy Wachowski have created a noisy, overlong, mind-numbin
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Capsule reviews of `Speed Racer' and others - AP
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Yahoo!
- 5/9/2008
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Capsule reviews of films opening this week: 'The Fall' This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic. Indian writer-director Tarsem Singh, who just goes by the name Tarsem, knows how to create some sumptuous visuals, as he did with his similarly
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