Go speed Racer go…

From the creators of matrix trilogy, comes another movie…Speed racer. I decided to watch the movie, since I could not get tickets for anything else; plus the trailers weren’t too bad. But watching the movie, I was just blown away..The eye candy was great…the shots were superb..some places they went really overboard, but then what do you expect from a movie which talks about cars driving at around 800 mph? The plot is simple.  The races are fixed by a cartel of multinational capitalists who don’t care about the sport. Speed racer is out to stop them..

I realized during the course of the movie that the reason wachowski movies are so cool is because they try to convert japanese anime into cinema with real life actors. The action in the Matrix was inspired by “Ghost in the shell” (which happens to be one of my favourite manga series) In the same way, speed racer comes from an anime of the same name. Japanese cartoons a.k.a manga or anime is one of my favourite genre of tv shows..its no surprise that I loved watching the movie.

Since the movie is an anime adaptation, there is should ideally be no surprise value in the movie; after all you know that the hero will succeed. But, the exaggerated graphics, cool effects and the neck breaking speed keep you at the edge of the seat..since you wait with bated breath for the way the hero wins…unrealistically of course Forget logic, have fun…

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