Young boys are the only suitable audience for Speed Racer, the elaborate live-action ... a champ who died racing. Speed tries to break records to the ac¬companiment of the Wachowskis’ manic ...

Speed Racer chronicles the rise of Speed (Emile Hirsch), a wide-eyed wunderkind desperate to win the Grand Prix racing championship. Yet as Wachowski disciples know, the film is also a ...

Speed Racer confronts these problems head-on but avoids only one of these pitfalls -- the game still struggles with delivering a real rush, but the pursuit of style points while racing, known as ...

Speed Racer resists, preferring to stay with his family’s independent racing team. This doesn’t fly, and soon the film becomes the story of the little guy fighting against corporate fat cats ...

But for the most part, “Speed Racer” is on the move, which keeps the eyes busy but also presents plausibility problems for anyone impertinent enough to pose them. The racing venues ...