If I were a 9-year-old no doubt that rating would be a gazillion stars instead of two and a half, but I’m a 45-year-old critic who thinks “Speed Racer” is one of the most interesting looking films ...

The Wachowskis have amazed again and shown us a world we'll only ever see in their imagination. Speed Racer is yet another visual revolution, but this time it's for kids, too. It's everything you'd ...

At one dramatic moment in "Speed Racer," a chimpanzee throws his own feces in someone's face. It's an apt metaphor for the whole film. Perhaps the stupidest movie ever made for a budget of $100 ...

The best aspect of the new "live action" movie Speed Racer is that it's everything a fan of the original 1960s Japanese anime cartoon could wish for in a modern, big money, computer-enhanced ...

This spring, it's time to rev up. Speed Racer is not only getting a feature film this May, but now also its own animated series, Speed Racer: The Next Generation, on Nicktoons.The new series will ...

The car wasn't just a vehicle, it was a fully-fledged character in his world I was around seven, when I first watched Speed Racer. You don’t have to fathom much: It focuses on a boy named Speed. He’s ...

Following the wild success of the Matrix trilogy Wachowski sisters Lana and Lilly were handed what is known in Hollywood as a "blank check," giving them an opportunity to make whatever crazy passion ...

Lionsgate has announced its first animated series, a new version of the 1960s animated “Speed Racer.” Variety says Nickelodeon’s 24-hour cartoon channel, Nicktoons, is on board to run the initial 26 ...

“Speed Racer” was Silver’s first pic to score multiple toy tie-ins with the likes of Mattel and Lego. “We used the movie to launch a toy and shoe line,” says one source close to the production. Indeed ...

“Speed Racer in My Most Dangerous Adventures” on the SNES was a fun game for fans of the Speed Racer cartoon. The levels alternated between racing the Mach 5 from a third-person perspective, and ...

Amid the current push by filmmakers to deny photo-reality in favor of animated impressionism comes Speed Racer, a Wachowski Brothers motion picture derived from a ’60s Japanese cartoon television ...