#SPEED RACER 2008 MOVIE TV#
Also Chim Chim's "favorite TV show" doesn't sound like German as claimed by Pops.Royalton: When I was a child, we used to say "Pänkuchen sind Liebchen!" - "Pancakes are love." (what he said translates to "pancakes are sweethearts") While in the original series, she is a minor character with limited dialogue, in the movie, Susan Sarandon plays her as a strong, caring mother who provides emotional support and inspiration for Speed.
#SPEED RACER 2008 MOVIE DRIVERS#
While the "Kwik-Save" might keep drivers from being trapped in a burning car, it does nothing against flying debris or neck injuries.
#SPEED RACER 2008 MOVIE MOVIE#
Artistic License Sports: At no point in the movie do we see any driver wearing a full face helmet or a head and neck restraint, both safety improvements that were introduced in the late 20th century.During the Casa Cristo Rally, the drivers' uniforms would be covered in the red desert sand, but Taejo's white uniform remains pristine.The wheels are clearly being driven by something, otherwise, the Mach 6 wouldn't leave burnout marks from a standing start. There is no conventionally possible way to transmit power to a wheel that can turn 360 degrees inside the fender, much less steer it.Naturally, none of the car combat moves the drivers do are close to possible in real life, and a car that is strong and rigid enough to come out unscathed in such accidents would impart the force of the impact onto the driver.T180's like the Mach 6, also make V8 Engine Noises despite appearing to be rocket powered.One, the vehicles lack the suspension travel for a route over desert sand and pockmarked asphalt, two, the racers would be choked by the clouds of sand kicked up by their competitors in the desert section and three, the vehicles' long wheelbases wouldn't have been ideal for the tight mountain roads. Artistic License Cars: Convertible sports cars like the Mach 5 would be the last vehicle to take on a cross-country rally.Anti-Climactic Unmasking: Twisted around the viewer, since Racer X is Rex Racer, but when Speed Racer meets him on the empty track, he's played by a random guy courtesy of Magic Plastic Surgery.Annoying Younger Sibling: Spritle (and Chim-Chim).Animesque: It's been called 'the first live-action anime'.Anachronic Order: Several scenes (especially in the beginning) keep switching around between multiple points of time.He could simply be much much Older Than He Looks, as he would be pushing one hundred were the movie set when it seems to be. Richard Roundtree, who plays Burns in the present, was born in 1942, which means even if the movie took place the year it came out, Burns would be too young to have been a driver. Ambiguous Time Period: The movie seems to take place a few decades into the future, with hovercrafts, futuristic cities, and advanced car safety technology, but Ben Burns is said to have driven in the 1943 Grand Prix.This movie is so vibrant that some critics reported visual fatigue. Almost Kiss: Twice, until the end - where the trope gets parodied as Spritle and Chim-Chim interrupt it for the sake of a quip, and then it resumes.All for Nothing: Taejo's plans to have Racer X and Speed help his team win the Casa Cristo 5000 so he can uncover evidence that will implicate Royalton initially turn out to be a farce when the Racer family learns from Inspector Detector that they were being played for chumps.