# Speed Racer Trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 7, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124 "2007-12-07T04:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/21 "2007-12-08T17:41:33Z")
I’ve had my doubts when I’ve heard rumors about a Speed Racer movie in the past. However, after seeing that trailer, I am eagerly awaiting the movie. Go Speed Racer!! Now if they could only do a live action **Marine Boy** … ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/22 "2007-12-08T23:06:45Z")
[QUOTE=Olive, The Other Reindeer] For the same reason no one ever realized that Superman and Clark Kent were the same person Olive [/QUOTE] but they had totally different names. that’s why it worked. also tights (on men) tend to draw ones attention away from faces. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/23 "2007-12-08T23:10:13Z")
The race scenes look like Mario Kart. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/24 "2007-12-08T23:45:15Z")
I didn’t hear the Mammoth Car. I can only assume they’re keeping it for the sequel. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/25 "2007-12-09T02:52:55Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] But who is Racer X? [/QUOTE] Oh, brother. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/26 "2007-12-09T03:31:44Z")
[QUOTE=rocking chair] but they had totally different names. that’s why it worked. also tights (on men) tend to draw ones attention away from faces. [/QUOTE] To whatever’s plastered on their chest, right? 'Cause _that’s_ as low as my eyes are going! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/27 "2007-12-09T15:44:39Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] To whatever’s plastered on their chest, right? 'Cause _that’s_ as low as my eyes are going! [/QUOTE] Ah, the Power Girl Gambit. Veeery clever. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/28 "2007-12-10T00:03:08Z")
well, yeah, there is the big huge letter. and lookee there… racer x has a big huge letter as well. you do know why ballet is so very popular amoung women… right? ---
**Author:** ![Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Olive\_The\_Other\_Reindeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olive_The_Other_Reindeer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/29 "2007-12-10T03:43:40Z")
[QUOTE=rocking chair] well, yeah, there is the big huge letter. and lookee there… racer x has a big huge letter as well. you do know why ballet is so very popular amoung women… right? [/QUOTE] It keeps them on their toes??? Olive ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/30 "2007-12-10T04:47:20Z")
The Mach 5 is a single seat? I always loved the fact that his car had a bench seat. They had better have the buzz saws that stick out he can drive through a forrest. Of course, I always wonder why the tree stumps didn’t bother the car. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124/31 "2007-12-10T05:27:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] The Mach 5 is a single seat? I always loved the fact that his car had a bench seat. [/QUOTE] Actually, if you watch the trailer closely, you’ll see that it has _both_. In the shot right before the car does a backflip, you can clearly see that there _is_ a bench seat in the car, with ample room for two people, in other shots, however, Speed barely has enough room for himself in the car. This leaves us with two possibilites, that the CGI guys and continuity checkers were totally asleep at the switch (not likely, since they got so many of the other minutiae correct [maybe, more later]), or that the film will have the rather cliched story about Speed cracking up the first (single occupant Mach 5) due to dirty tricks, quitting racing, and wandering around dispondant until something happens and Speed realizes that he _has_ to get back behind the wheel, so he shows back up at Pop’s garage, gives him a quick blow job and then hops into the “new and improved” Mach 5 that Pop’s “just happened” to have been working on, and uses that to win the race at the end of the movie. I note that in many of the shots early on in the trailer, the ass end of the Mach 5 looks _totally_ wrong. This again, could be a fuck up, or proof that there’s two different Mach 5’s. I’ll note that the [publicity photos of the film car](http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2007/06/21/exclusive-videosphotos-dark-knight-batpod-and-speed-racer-mach-5/), as well as the [has-a-lot-of-money-but-no-life official movie replica you can buy](http://www.sussexcountyonline.com/news/columns/cars/carreviews/speedracer.html) has the Mach 5 as a two-seater and the correct ass end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/speed-racer-trailer/429124.md?page=1)