Racer's

Speed Racer's violence was mostly all the car crash related things, if I remember correctly .. definitely dangerous too, but I agree that Prince Caspian had stronger violence.

So How DID Prince Caspian Get a PG Rating?! « FirstShowing.net 2008

Speed Racer's name in Japanese was Go Mifune, but they Anglicized all the names in the American release, and most of the American kids who first watched the cartoon in 1967 probably didn't know it was a Japanese import anyway.

Movie Review: Speed Racer 2008

BBtv - Speed Racer's "photo-anime" hyperreality: John Gaeta interview, part 2.

Boing Boing 2008

BoingBoing TV has this really cool interview with Speed Racer's visual designer, John Gaets.

Tube Bits for 05/07/2008 2008

Speed Racer's name in Japanese was Go Mifune, but they Anglicized all the names in the American release, and most of the American kids who first watched the cartoon in 1967 probably didn't know it was a Japanese import anyway.

Archive 2008-05-01 2008

In this second part of BBtv's conversation with Gaeta, he reveals some of the art, anime, and pop culture elements that combine to form Speed Racer's "poptimistic photo-anime" feel.

Boing Boing 2008

(The Mammoth Car, the GRX, Snake Oiler, Pops Racer's wrestling move, Speed's scissor kick) all of this was right out of the series.

Interpreting Speed Racer's Box Office Failure « FirstShowing.net 2008

BoingBoing TV has this really cool interview with Speed Racer's visual designer, John Gaets.

May 2008 2008

Team Polizei, which has won the completely illegal New York to Los Angeles Gumball Rally and holds the unofficial cross-country speed record (just over 31 hours), has signed on with Grand-Am Series team TRG, aka The Racer's Group, to drive a 2008 Porsche GT3 in the Grand-Am event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, Calif., next month.

Columbia Golfers Win Without Golf Course 2009

Christina Ricci, Emile Hirsch, John Goodman and Susan Sarandon all nail this storybook genre, although Paulie Litt is particularly special as Speed Racer's younger brother Spritle, quite possibly the most curmudgeony ten-year-old ever put on a movie screen in the film's penultimate moment of what-the-fuck, candy-colored bliss, he and his pet chimpanzee Chim Chim race around an upscale car factory, jamming out to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird".

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