Chicago Sun-Times
Jim Emerson |
4 |
...a manufactured widget, a packaged commodity that capitalizes on an anthropomorphized cartoon of Capitalist Evil in order to sell itself and its ancillary products. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
7 |
...bemoans corporately financed entertainment for the masses while serving as a fine example thereof. |
E!
Matt Stevens |
6 |
...if you don't have ADD before entering this Racer, you will by the finish line. |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
2 |
...currently leads a race it won't want to win. Right now it's the summer's most irrelevant blockbuster, the first missed opportunity of a still-developing season that hasn't yet entered turn one. |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
2 |
This adventurously awful film is awful in many ways at once. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
5 |
...looks like a Hot Wheels video game... |
Reel
Sean O'Connell |
3 |
...currently leads a race it won't want to win. Right now it's the summer's most irrelevant blockbuster, the first missed opportunity of a still-developing season that hasn't yet entered turn one. |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
5 |
...comparable to dousing one's eyeballs in a sugary hyper-digitized Skittles soup. |
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers |
5 |
There is one high note. You can approach Speed Racer as the trippiest stonerfest since Stanley Kubrick took his space odyssey. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
5 |
...elaborate... |
New York Times
A. O. Scott |
5 |
...goes nowhere, and you’d be amazed how long the trip can take. |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano |
4 |
...provides very little of either, though it does explode into spurts of frenetic, confusing and hard-to-follow action -- and that's just on the racetracks. |
People
Leah Rozen |
4 |
...dazzles with lollipop-hued shininess but, sorry to report, there's nothing under the hood... |
Village Voice
J. Hoberman |
6 |
Bright, shiny, and button-cute, the movie is a self-consciously tawdry trifle... |
Onion AV Club
Scott Tobias |
5 |
...work(s) like a sugar rush, but the crash from all that overstimulation is enough to reduce grown men into sobbing infants. |
Maxim
Eric Alt |
4 |
Theater, DVD, or TNT in Five Years? This movie will be used by people to calibrate their new HDTVs. That's about it. |
Premiere
Glenn Kenny |
7 |
One of the most genuinely confounding films to come along in years... |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
4 |
...so garishly straightlaced that it's positively surreal. |
This movie is available on DVD/Video