Length: 135
minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of action, some violence and language
This is a Wachowski brothers movie based on a Japanese-made anime cartoon TV series that has aired in the US with English-speaking voices. But the movie has live actors, including Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman and Susan Sarandon, moving through fanciful, garishly colored computer-generated environments, and the result is not unlike a video game. The action centers on frenetic auto races where the laws of physics have been repealed, and the hero is a driver named Speed Racer (Hirsch). The villain (Roger Allam) is a corrupt corporate mogul.
- Widescreen
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