# Anyone Have A Minute To Explain The Factual Premise For The Speed Racer Movie?

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**Created:** [May 18, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-minute-to-explain-the-factual-premise-for-the-speed-racer-movie/449788 "2008-05-18T21:03:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-minute-to-explain-the-factual-premise-for-the-speed-racer-movie/449788/21 "2008-05-19T20:28:41Z")

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[QUOTE=Equipoise]  
Oh to see this movie on acid…damn, what a wonderful thing that would be.  
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Personally, I think mushrooms would be a better choice.

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-minute-to-explain-the-factual-premise-for-the-speed-racer-movie/449788/22 "2008-05-19T23:22:41Z")

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Once upon a time, a family thought that it would be a good idea for their youngest son to have a chimpanzee as a play companion. Chimpanzees are several times stronger than human beings, so the boy was bludgeoned mercilessly about the head many, many times. The chimp also gave the boy a virulent strain of simian herpes. Years later, when the boy tried to recall his childhood, his formative memories were an indistinct, colorful blur and a whirling sensation of high velocity.

“Go go go,” he would murmur, staring into space with his arms wrapped protectively around him as his body rocked back and forth, back and forth. “Go go go go go.”

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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-minute-to-explain-the-factual-premise-for-the-speed-racer-movie/449788/23 "2008-05-19T23:27:44Z")

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
Personally, I think mushrooms would be a better choice.  
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That’ll do too.

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**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-a-minute-to-explain-the-factual-premise-for-the-speed-racer-movie/449788/24 "2008-05-20T03:11:37Z")

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It’s a world in which the things that happen in Speed Racer are able to happen. I watched the cartoon religiously when I was little and never questioned why race cars are apparently street legal.

You don’t worry about what type of paint is on the roller coaster, you just go for the ride.

However, I must say, that after seeing the movie, I wish real life racing were like that. I might actually watch.

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