Genre: Action/Adventure
Release Date: 5/9/2008
Running Time: 135 mins
Director: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Melissa Holroyd, Ariel Winter, Scott Porter, Gian Ganziano, Peter Fernandez, Harvey Friedman and Sami Loris
Producer: Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski
Writer: Andy Wachowski, John Lau, Larry Wachowski, Patrick Read Johnson and Tatsuo Yoshida
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Speed Racer
Converting a fondly remembered cartoon series into a prospective franchise, the Matrix masters, Larry and Andy Wachowski, have taken another step toward the total cyborganization of the cinema. Gaudier than a Hindu-temple roof, louder than the Las Vegas night, Speed Racer is a cathedral of glitz. The movie projects a Candy Land topography of lava-lamp skies and Hello Kitty clouds—part Middle Earth, part mental breakdown—using a beyond-Bollywood color scheme wherein telephones are blood orange, jet planes electric fuchsia, and ultra-turquoise is the new black. For me, this carousel, which clocks in at a leisurely 135 minutes, is more fun to describe than to ride. Speed Racer has a narrative at once simpleminded and senseless, albeit touchingly faithful to Tatsuo Yoshida’s original cartoons. Here too, the eponymous hero (Emile Hirsch)—child of the auto-inventor Pops Racer (John Goodman, man-mountain of goodwill) and Mom Racer (self-Stepfordized Susan Sarandon)—is born to drive the family Mach 5. And drive Speed does. Like The Matrix, Speed Racer gives the not-unrealistic impression of taking place inside a computer. But love, hate, or ignore it, The Matrix proposed a social mythology. Speed Racer is simply a mishmash—the delusions minus the grandeur. - J. Hoberman
Theaters showing Speed Racer
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AMC Creve Coeur 12
10465 Olive Blvd.
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
314-542-4262
12:50 PM, 4:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 10:00 PM
AMC Esquire 7
6706 Clayton Rd.
Richmond Heights, MO 63117
314-542-4262
2:10 PM, 5:10 PM
AMC West Olive 16
12657 Olive Blvd.
Creve Coeur, MO 63141
314-542-4262
12:25 PM, 3:30 PM, 7:05 PM
B & B Festus 8 Cinema
1522 Parkway West
Festus, MO 63028
(636)933-4033
(1:00 PM), (3:50 PM)
Great Escape O'Fallon 14
900 Caledonia Drive
O'Fallon, MO 63368
(636)300-9900
(11:50 AM), (2:45 PM), (5:35 PM), 8:35 PM
Hannibal Cinema 5
7 Northport Plz
Hannibal, MO 63401
(573)221-5038
(1:00 PM), (3:50 PM)
Regal St. Louis Mills Stadium 18
5555 St. Louis Mills Blvd.
Hazelwood, MO 63042
(314)227-5503
(12:40 PM), (3:40 PM), 6:35 PM, 9:35 PM
Starlite Drive-In Theater - Cadet
Route 2
Cadet, MO 63630
(888)21M-OVIE
8:30 PM
Sullivan 6 Cinema
3001 North Service Road West
Sullivan, MO 63080
(573)860-7469
12:45 PM, 3:30 PM
Wehrenberg Arnold 14 Cine
1912 Richardson Rd.
Arnold, MO 63010
314-822-2463
(12:30 PM), (3:35 PM), 6:40 PM, 9:40 PM
Wehrenberg Chesterfield Galaxy 14
450 THF Blvd.
Chesterfield, MO 63005
314-822-2463
DLP-Digital Projection; (1:10 PM), (4:15 PM), 7:20 PM, 10:25 PM
Wehrenberg Des Peres 14 Cine
12701 Manchester Rd
Des Peres, MO 63131
314-822-4903
(12:10 PM), (3:30 PM), 6:45 PM, 9:55 PM
Wehrenberg Jamestown 14 Cine
209 Jamestown Mall
Florissant, MO 63034
(314)822-2463
(11:20 AM), (2:30 PM), (5:45 PM), 9:10 PM
Wehrenberg Mid-Rivers 14 Cine
1220 Mid Rivers Mall Dr.
St. Peters, MO 63376
314-822-2463
(12:30 PM), (3:35 PM), 6:40 PM, 9:40 PM
Wehrenberg Ronnie's 20 Cine
South Lindbergh & Baptist Church Road
Saint Louis, MO 63126
(314)822-CINE
DLP-Digital Projection; (11:45 AM), (3:05 PM), 6:10 PM, 9:15 PM
Wehrenberg St. Charles 18 Cine
1830 First Capitol Drive South
St. Charles, MO 63303
(314)822-CINE
DLP-Digital Projection; (12:55 PM), (4:05 PM), 7:10 PM, 10:15 PM
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