Speed Racer (2008)
Directed by Lilly and Lana Wachowski
Written by Lilly and Lana Wachowski
Starring Emile Hirsch, Matthew Fox, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Roger Allam
Release Date May 9th, 2008
Published April 3rd, 2025
YouTube video essayest Patrick H. Willems is dropping a new video, an epic defense of the remarkably underrated 2008 flop, Speed Racer. This visionary effort from Lana and Lily Wachowski was too far ahead of its time when it was released in 2008. It's no wonder that people who are revisiting Speed Racer today are finding that the film was, indeed a masterpiece far ahead of it's time. I watched and loved Patrick's essay on the creator owned streaming service, Nebula. It will be on YouTube soon as well. Subscribe to Patrick H. Willems on YouTube or subscribe to Nebula to watch this epic. Meanwhile, I decided to revisit my love for Speed Racer.
The team behind The Matrix, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, had been away from the big screen for four years before they returned with Speed Racer. The film was their follow-up to what some saw as a disappointing pair of Matrix sequels. Regardless of the critics, those sequels were wildly successful, enough so that WB gave the Wachowski's a massive budget for Speed Racer while also taking a hands off approach to allowing the Wachowski's to make the movie they wanted to make, a big budget, wildly inventive adaptation of the boomer anime retro strip Speed Racer. They then turned that I.P into an eye popping effects extravaganza. This candy colored action-racing smorgasbord was a feast for the eyes and a triumph for modern special effects, that bombed at the box office.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
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