# The Speed Racer Movie (Open Spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 6, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-speed-racer-movie-open-spoilers/448307 "2008-05-06T16:09:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-speed-racer-movie-open-spoilers/448307/101 "2008-05-18T00:49:42Z")

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Missed the edit window.

About the dizziness/head-ache aspect of the movie. I do not normally get head-aches so I can not speak to that but I do get dizzy easily. This movie did not affect me at all and I get dizzy if I turn around too quickly so take that for what its worth.

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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 18, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-speed-racer-movie-open-spoilers/448307/102 "2008-05-18T02:55:26Z")

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It makes me sad that a whole generation of kids will miss seeing this Once-In-A-Lifetime-Experience in the theater while they can before it dies and goes to wholly-inadequate DVD because their parents…hate the cartoons/the Wachowskis/are listening to critics who have forgotten what it was like to be a kid/whatever reason.

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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 18, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-speed-racer-movie-open-spoilers/448307/103 "2008-05-18T04:17:54Z")

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Just got back from seeing it this evening. I’m 41 and male and every day after elementary school, I would come home and watch reruns of Speed Racer on tv. Speed Racer and the campy Batman show were all I watched. In my free time in class, I drew endless reproductions of races through mountains and of car crashes.

This movie made me feel like an 8-year-old boy again. I was grinning and wide-eyed the whole time. It’s like they actually got the mythos of Speed Racer right. And the movie had to be done the way it was done because, I mean, the cartoon had him using the Mach 5 as his “getting around” car. It couldn’t take itself seriously. The rally race through mountains and up cliffs was cool. It was awesome to see a photorealistic Mach 5 in action. They even had Spritle and Chim Chim do the whole “riding on the shoulders to impersonate a grown-up” shtick.

And whoever cast Christina Ricci as Trixie did an infinitely better job than whoever cast Rosie O’Donnell as Betty Rubble.

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