• Genre: Action/Adventure
  • Release Date: 05/09/2008
  • Running Time: 135 mins
  • Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
  • Cast: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Melissa Holroyd, Ariel Winter, Scott Porter, Gian Ganziano, Peter Fernandez, Harvey Friedman, Sami Loris
  • Producer: Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
  • Writer: Patrick Read Johnson, John Lau, Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski, Tatsuo Yoshida
  • Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Box Office

  1. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 29.3 million, 29.3 million
  2. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  3. Eagle Eye, 17.7 million, 54.6 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, 11.3 million, 11.3 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  8. Nights in Rodanthe, 7.4 million, 25.1 million
  9. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  10. Appaloosa, 5.1 million, 5.6 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Lakeview Terrace, 4.6 million, 32.2 million
  13. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  14. Burn After Reading, 4.1 million, 51.7 million
  15. Fireproof, 4.0 million, 12.4 million
  16. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  17. An American Carol, 3.7 million, 3.7 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Religulous, 3.4 million, 3.4 million
  20. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
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Speed Racer: The IMAX Experience

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

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