Speed Racer

His first name is Speed, and his last name is Racer. Guess what he does. He races cars -- fast, colorful, gravity-defying cars. Generally, I don't like movies with a lot of CGI, kids movies, more than 2-hour-long movies, and movies based on old TV shows. But the Wachiowski brothers made this, so I gave it a try. The brothers should stick to R-rated fare like "Bound" and "V for Vendetta." The graphics were indeed impressive, but every time the story starts to go somewhere, they throw in some stupid bit about a kid and his chimp or whatever, and it's deflating. And it doesn't quite fit to have a movie for kids that also has an odd anti-conglomerate message. Like "King Kong," the best parts don't involve humans acting. And, as a side note, I learned that in a PG film, you can say, "Get that weak shit off my track."