Monday, October 29, 2012

Go Speed Racer Go!!


Annalee Newitz goes under the hood to explain why Andy and Lana Wachowski’s 2008 candy-coated spectacle Speed Racer deserves a winning trophy:

“It’s a cybernetic autopia, and every racing scene makes you feel like you’re experiencing a pure distllation of speed and motion.”

She also notes the film’s appreciation for youngsters:

“Every background landscape looks like a churning, whirling kid’s imagination, colored spastically in crayon. This is a movie that loves kids for what they really are—little maniacs who are hopped up on adrenaline and adventurousness, who inhabit stories fully rather than from a dispassionate, ironic distance.

Previous coverage of the Wachowskis here.

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