Speed RacerMovie Reviews

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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Aimed squarely at family audiences, the Wachowski Brothers' return behind the camera for the first time since the "Matrix" trilogy is a blur of video action painting and very loud sounds notable solely for its technical wizardry. In every other respect, it's pure cotton candy -- entirely non-nutritious but too sweet and pretty for young people to resist. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Unlike a Pixar cartoon that embraces as wide an audience as possible, Speed Racer proudly denies entry into its ultra-bright world to all but gamers, fanboys and anime enthusiasts. Story and character are tossed aside to focus obsessively on PG-rated action and milk-guzzling heroes. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    If this action extravaganza represents the future of movies, it's going to be a sad, dead and awful future. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    There is one high note. You can approach Speed Racer as the trippiest stonerfest since Stanley Kubrick took his space odyssey. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action adaptation written and directed by "Matrix" creators Larry and Andy Wachowski. And even they might feel an urge to squirm. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Yes, it's a candy-colored Day-Glo world, but there's a liveliness missing from this lead-footed Speed Racer. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    Chances are, after they've passed the two-hour mark, viewers will share the same collective, if unspoken, wish: Go, Speed Racer. Go. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    This movie sets out to honor and refresh a youthful enthusiasm from the past and winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Carina Chocano

    The fakeness of it all overwhelms, dampening any real excitement. It's hard to care about characters so stiff and one-dimensional they out-cartoon the cartoon originals, and it's hard to watch them bop around like avatars in a flat, airless, digital world. Read full review

  • 0
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    This toxic admixture of computer-generated frenzy and live-action torpor succeeds in being, almost simultaneously, genuinely painful -- the esthetic equivalent of needles in eyeballs -- and weirdly benumbing, like eye candy laced with lidocaine. Read full review

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