| | Speed Racer Blu-ray
| Category | Blu-ray DVDs, Action/Adventure Movies, Action Videos, Box Sets, Family, Racing, Digital Copy, Race Cars | | Starring | Emile Hirsch, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Richard Roundtree, Benno Furmann, Hiroyuki Sanada, Roger Allam, Nicholas Elia, Kick Gurry, Paulie Litt, Rain | | Director | Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | | Composer | Michael Giacchino | | Costume Designer | Kym Barrett | | Director of Photography | David Tattersall | | Editor | Zach Staenberg, Roger Barton | | Executive Producer | Bruce Berman, Michael Lambert, David Lane Seltzer | | Producer | Joel Silver
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Start your engines and fasten your seatbelts for the high-octane adventure Speed Racer, combining heartfelt family humor and groundbreaking visual effects. Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is a natural behind the wheel of his thunderous Mach 5. With support from Pops and Mom Racer (John Goodman and Susan Sarandon), girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci), younger brother Spritle (Paulie Litt) and the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox), Speed takes on fierce competitors to save his family's business and protect the sport he loves. When Speed steps onto the track, it's not just a race. It's an adrenaline-fueled, high-speed charge to the finish. Go, Speed Racer, go!! Also included are game and digital copy DVDs. Based on the 1960s Japanese-manga-derived animated TV series of the same name, SPEED RACER follows the adventures of the title character (Emile Hirsch), a young race car driver who sits behind the wheel of the lightning-fast Mach 5 vehicle. Aided by his family, which includes Pops Racer (John Goodman) and Mom Racer (Susan Sarandon), and his devoted doe-eyed girlfriend, Trixie (Christina Ricci), Speed racks up victory after victory, but still lives in the shadow of his late older brother, Rex (Scott Porter), who died in a race. When Speed garners the wrath of Royalton Industries, he must team up with the enigmatic Racer X (Matthew Fox) to defeat the ruthless corporation.
Written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, the masterminds behind the MATRIX films, SPEED RACER replaces the gritty techno patina of that blockbuster series with a polished, brightly hued virtual reality. Though the eye-popping visuals threaten to eclipse the acting, the fine cast gamely makes the most of their green-screen environment, particularly the likable Hirsch, who won acclaimed for his decidedly different INTO THE WILD role, and LOST's always-noble Fox. Adding to the movie's giddy mood are Paulie Litt and his chimp companion, who provide comic relief as Speed's playful younger brother, Spritle, and Chim Chim, respectively. While definitely a case of style over substance, SPEED RACER is a movie meticulously designed to appeal to families and kids, especially the Spritle-like young ones. Speed Racer Reviews: "[T]he film is triumphantly visual....[SPEED RACER] bubbles with invention, staying true to its ambition of being a living cartoon."-- Ian Nathan, Empire "The stylised kitsch images have pop-art colours to make THE WIZARD OF OZ look drab, the pictures overlaid in sliding or zooming collages."-- Andrew Osmond, Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 4 -- "The bright, candy-colored universe the Wachowskis fashion out of digital and green screen wizardry is often psychedelic in the extreme."-- Glenn Kenny, Premiere Speed Racer | List Price | $35.99 (You save $3.50) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 2008 | | All Time Sales Rank |  50032  | | CD Universe Part number | 7716977 | | Catalog number | 1000026375 | | Discs | 3 | | Release Date | Sep 16, 2008 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Rating Reason | for sequences of action, some violence, language and brief smoking | | Additional Info | Widescreen; With Digital Copy | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; With Digital Copy |
Speed Racer DVD Blu-ray Features:
Keep Case
Full Frame -
1.33
Audio:
(unspecified) English
Additional Release Material:
Featurette - Explore the cars and tracks used in the film and see how the heart pounding races were created without a single real car
Full Length Feature
Interactive Features:
Full Disc DVD Game
Speed Racer Challenge
Additional Products:
Bonus Digital Copy Disc
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