It’s ShowWest time in Las Vegas, so that’s why we’re suddenly getting such a heavy influx of trailers for some of this summer’s most anticipated releases. And no studio is pushing as aggressively for a single film as Warner Brothers is for the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer, which is beginning to look like May’s toughest sell.
If the adaptation of the 1960s anime television show fails to catch on with audiences, it won’t be for lack of effort on the WB’s part; this is the third “new” trailer I’ve seen for Speed Racer in the last week. The first two were for the international market, and they were way too cluttered; this new spot breathes a little, and rekindles my enthusiasm for the project. Yeah, I’m seriously looking forward to this. Even if the film’s as inert as Dick Tracy, we’ll at least be getting a lovingly designed wank from a pair of filmmakers who know how to put a movie together (it’s the putting-a-script-together part that’s been kicking their ass for the last eight years).
And, if I may, Christina Ricci’s Kewpie doll features were made for a film this outlandishly stylized. Maybe it’s me being a guy, but there’s something about her that just pops in these previews. I’ll stop now.
By the way, can anyone hear this exchange (from early in the trailer)…
“No, he’s going to be the very best.”
… and not think of this? Hear the engines roll now, indeed.
Speed Racer opens wide May 9th.
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It stinks.
I have no opinion on Speed Racer.
This movie makes me piss dicks.
I've always wanted to stretch Christina Ricci's cheaks out. I think she would look nice if i was stretching her cheeks out.
Since I can't access youtube at work, I'll go ahead and assume you linked to something Pod People related.
Am I right?
If only half of the total number of drug users that the CHUD staff know, happen to go this flick on opening weekend, it'll break Spiderman 3's record. The only thing that remains to be seen is which album will be 'discovered' to mysteriously synch with it later on.
The small bit of the fight scene we see in one of the international trailers reminds me of the Jeet Kun Do (I think, im probably totally wrong) of Spike in Cowboy Bebop.
God Im a geek
Looks like fun and totally entertaining and isn't that enough to ask of a movie like this?
Thank you, thank you, thank you Jeremy Smith. After all the Hot Fuzz Lon-Don references thrown into your articles, you go on and throw a Pod People (MSTKed) one in as well. I didn't even have to click on that big green beautiful to know how awesome this site is.
(it's the putting-a-script-together part that's been kicking their ass for the last eight years)
HA HA HA HA soooo funny! me stupid
Steady as a goat, Speed's flyin' over trout!
You just made my day, Jeremy. Speed Racer now officially has a theme song. Also, my sister's ready to go.
This movie looks like a big steaming pile of crap. Seriously, they're remaking this cartoon and we dont even have a thundercats movie yet? For shame:(
I'm kinda pumped for this one, at least because it looks like nothing I've seen before. And I'm not even a Speed Racer fan. I think it could work.
Idiot control now, wheels on fire, burning rubber tires. Truly a classic.
Now if real auto-racing looked like that, with huge metal spikes coming out of the track, I could possibly understand the fascination with Nascar.
Warner Bros: So, you've officially put 10 generations of our families through college with the Matrix Trilogy, what do you want to do next?
Wachow (in unison): Speed Racer.
Warners: Right. No one will want to see that.
Wachow: (putting choke collars on each other)
Warners: Here's to hoping!
I have to admit… this shit looks like it's gonna be a hell of a lot of fun. How can you deny it?
"we dont even have a thundercats movie yet? For shame:("
Thundercats is so incredibly wack. All the old anime standbys are. Inlcuding SR, including voltron, including anything that features less than 3 frames of animation per second. I'm so sick of all these tard kids talking up their favorite anime show as "the one true show" they all suck ass.
This movie looks really stupid. I can't even look back on the cartoon with any sense of nostalgia.
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