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I looked to see if we had a thread about the movie, but only saw the video game, so here we go....

Has anybody seen the trailer for the "Speed Racer" movie coming out in May?

Speed Racer trailer

It looks very cool - this is one that is goig to need to be seen at the theatre I think. DVD on my tv just isn't going to be the same.

My 7-year-old son and I watched the trailer; right before that, I had shown him the opening of the original Speed Racer anime on YouTube.

My son's verdict: the Speed Racer anime looked cool. The live-action movie, to him, looked OK, but he preferred the look of the anime.

As a side note, I got a Speed Racer DVD for my birthday (which was yesterday). So I need to sit down and watch it, so I can write an overview article of Speed Racer, as well as a review of the DVD.

It's been announced that Speed Racer will be the closing film of this year's Tribeca Film Festival. The festival will be taking place in various locations in New York City between April 23 and May 3.

There's also a Speed Racer contest coming up in connection with the live-action movie. On some of the Viacom networks (MTV, VH1, TV Land, and Comedy Central), a television ad will air between April 10 and April 18, which will direct viewers to a website to provide a mobile phone number. On April 18, all those who enter will receive a text message with a Speed Racer trivia question, and they will be given two minutes to submit an answer. Ten winners will be drawn from all of those who enter with the correct answer within the time limit, and flown to Los Angeles for the April 26 world premiere of the film. At the premiere, the ten winners will race remote-controlled cars based on those from the film. The grand prize will be an actual custom-built car inspired by the Mach 5(and is worth $100,000 US).

My 5 yr old saw the TV trailer the other day, and was bouncing all over the place! (His other favorite movie is "Cars")

So we will definitely be going to see this one. I don't think I'll be allowed to sleep until we do!

The final numbers for Speed Racer are in for its opening weekend, and it doesn't look very promising.

The film ultimately debuted at number two at the box office, grossing $20.2 million. It was also panned by many film critics.

Dan Fellman, president of Warner Bros. theatrical distribution, has been quoted as saying, "Unfortunately, it didn't perform to our expectations." Fellman added that Speed Racer would have a difficult time recouping its $120 million budget.

It appears the final numbers were actually revised since I posted yesterday.

Speed Racer actually ended up coming in at number three at the box office over the weekend, and only grossed $18.6 million (instead of the $20 million quoted yesterday).

Speed Racer came in at number four at the box office this weekend, grossing $7.6 million. It has grossed $29.8 million during the two weeks it's been in theaters.

Jeff Goldstein, Warner Bros.' executive vice president of distribution, said next weekend was "do or die" for the movie.

We finally got to go see it today!

I took my 5 yr old son and 10 yr old daughter, and we all had a great time. The 5 yr old was ecstatic, LOL.

The special effects are grest, relly fun! They are the type of special effects that are meant to be special effects. It's supposed to look very cartoony - and it does. The racing scenes are amazing. The enitre audience was "Oh!ing" and "Whoa!ing" when stuff would happening.

I kept expecting a really weak story line ('cause that's all I'd been hearing) but was pleasantly surprised. True, it's not gonna win an Oscar for best screenplay, but it made sense and had the right amount of drama for what it was ment to be - a remake of a cartoon.

It reminded me of a mix of the original "Tron" and the first "Spy Kids" as far as special effects went.

Oh, and the inspector, actor Benno Furmann (should be an umlatt there, can't figure out how to do one on the forum), I have been in lust with ever since "The Order" with Heath Ledger. He's gorgeous, sexy, ice blue eyes, and then the killer accent - ahhhh!

The one bad thought I did have about the movie was, we went to see it at the IMAX theatre, and I thought it was a very good thing my oldest son did not want to see it, because he has seizures triggered byh light strobes, and this one quite possibly could have set one off. I don't know that for sure, but just a "think about" for anyone with epilepsy thinking about seeing this. It might be better to wait and see it on DVD at home.

The box office estimates for this week are in. Right now, Speed Racer looks like it will come in at #5, and gross 4 million this week.

This week's box office estimated are in. As of right now, Speed Racer looks like it will come in at #8, grossing $2.1 million.

When I was in Target this weekend, I noticed that they have already cut prices on some of the Speed Racer merchandise on their shelves.