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'Speed Racer' Trailer Simulates Brain of Juvenile Psychotics

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Envision a jarring nightmare full of absurdly cliched dialogue, the Playstation game Wipeout, fan-fiction, epilepsy, ninjas, Michael Jackson's '80s wardrobe, all the worst parts of Star Wars: Episode I, and Maury Povich's ideal guest (a child who is both fat and prematurely aged), all filtered through the mind of a boy with ADHD. If you did it right, you're now pretty close to the trailer to Speed Racer, only more so.


Speed Racer Trailer No. 1 [AOL movies]

  • March 13, 2008
    A new domestic trailer to Speed Racer has arrived, forcing some retro kitsch into its computer-generated candy world with the addition of a "cool beans!" moment. Aside from conspicuously dated slang, the new trailer also gives us disturbing hints of incest, and the shocking rev... / Continue →
  • March 10, 2008
    Equal parts video game, hallucinogen, and exposition, two new international trailers for Speed Racer have found their way online in all their blinding, over-saturated glory. I don't know why the Wachowskis keep releasing trailers when it's obvious that the in-theater seizures a... / Continue →
  • December 6, 2007
    Since the Wachowskis announced they were making a live-action adaptation of Speed Racer, there's been a lot of speculation and doubt as to how well they could translate the anime. It turns out our worries were completely unfounded. Just like you'd want, it looks exactly like a ... / Continue →
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