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.
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.
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.