| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
C |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...like being force-fed a Costco-size bag of your favorite candy. " more... |
C |
Chicago Sun-Times
Jim Emerson |
"...a manufactured widget, a packaged commodity that capitalizes on an anthropomorphized cartoon of Capitalist Evil in order to sell itself and its ancillary products." more... |
C- |
Chicago Tribune
Geoff Berkshire |
"You’ll want fall asleep whenever long-winded evil businessman Royalton (Roger Allam) shows up, and eventually not even another tricked out CGI car will rouse you from your slumber." more... |
B- |
E! Online
Matt Stevens |
"Go, Speed Racer, go! Go find a story more worthy of your mind-blowing visuals!" more... |
C+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"Young boys are the only suitable audience..." more... |
C |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"A Saturday morning live-action cartoon with stellar visual effects but rudimentary story and characters." more... |
C |
New York Post
Kyle Smith |
"This adventurously awful film is awful in many ways at once." more... |
D- |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...winds up smothering the fun in self-conscious grandiosity." more... |
C- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"What impresses with its 'wow!' factor early on becomes repetitive and headache-inducing later in the proceedings." more... |
C |
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...if this action extravaganza represents the future of movies, it's going to be a sad, dead and awful future." more... |
C |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"This one is a kiddie show all the way..." more... |
B- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"For a movie about velocity, the excitement factor is low and the races feel like a drag." more... |
C- |
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