The race scenes look as if they're taking place inside a flashing pinball machine - all the more appealing for young fans. In the best sense, it has that hyperbolic feel of a Road Runner cartoon, all whiz-bang and excitement (though, that said, the first act is pretty slow). It ertainly feels like it wants to be one. It's not entirely clear why the Wachowski sisters, the CGI geniuses behind the Matrix trilogy, didn't make this nto an animated feature. Which Side of History? How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives.Cómo saber si una aplicación o sitio web son realmente educativos.How to Tell If an App or a Website Is Good for Learning.Teachers: Find the best edtech tools for your classroom with in-depth expert reviews.Check out new Common Sense Selections for games.10 tips for getting kids hooked on books.Common Sense Selections for family entertainment.The result was a movie which adults had no interest in and parents were never quite sure was meant for their kids. They needed to sell this thing solely to pre-teens, and they didn’t. The very small crowd that comprises Speed Racer fans, and a few stragglers who weren’t already totally disillusioned by the way the Wachowskis' ruined The Matrix. That’s who you got into the theater this past weekend. He doesn’t really represent the mainstream, he doesn’t even represent the mainstream geek crowd, he represents a tiny subset of people which apparently, are worth about $20 million at the box office. Note to Warner Brothers: Harry Knowles likes a lot of crap.
Maybe their researchers spent too much time on fanboy sites like the increasingly out of touch AICN, allowing the niche audience there to convince them that there was this huge fanbase for Speed Racer, when in fact it’s a crappy cartoon which most people barely remember, and of those that do few think of it all that fondly. Warner Brothers never quite caught on to the fact that adults were not going to be interested in this thing, no matter how they advertised it.
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