![]() On the track, cars look like dragsters but drive like futuristic robots. The neon spectacle of the latter informs the look of the entire film. The dual worlds of ‘Speed Racer’ are the suburban home and the cut-and-thrust arena of the racetrack. Geography is of the Gran Turismo sort: nobody blinks when a motor race traverses continents, mountains and deserts to cross the finishing-line at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Their camera (if you can call it that – the film was produced entirely on a green screen) can leap stadiums and entire cities. Once again they employ and surpass the limitless perspective of a computer game. It’s the first film from writers and directors Andy and Larry Wachowski since their ‘Matrix’ trilogy and here they present a comic strip world played out in a post-Playstation era. This live-action cartoon of a film loudly thrusts a 1960s Japanese animé series into the twenty-first century. Its furious pace and movement make Road Runner seem narcoleptic. Its palette makes ‘The Wizard of Oz’ look like an episode of ‘EastEnders’. To say that ‘Speed Racer’ is colourful would be as misleading as claiming that it’s quiet and meditative.
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