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[Nvyseal]

When it hit the airwaves in the late 1960s, Speed Racer was pretty innovative television — for a cartoon. Four decades later, the story of a family that works out its issues on a racetrack seems a little hokey.

So how do you please a YouTube generation that likes its humor ironic and its special effects cutting-edge while pleasing baby boom moviegoers who still remember Trixie's haircut and Chim Chim's jumpsuit?



The brothers Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta) take a crack at updating the cartoon with Speed Racer, which gets its first look here and whose trailer runs tonight on Entertainment Tonight. "The effects are beyond belief. We called it 'car fu,' because it was like kung fu with the cars," Silver says. "We couldn't have made this movie until right now."

But effects, he says, take a back seat to the Wachowskis' true love of the old series: the cars, costumes and message.

Read more, See Screenies @ USA Today

[TheBearLT]

Ha ha ha... I used to be the FanBoy of this Cartoon.. Dunno why, but it was sooo amazing back then...

[Christopholofigus]

Go speed racer, go speed racer, go speed racer go....

Never liked the cartoon. Now Robotech on the other hand...

But if it is done by Wachowsk brothers, i'll just have to see it to see it...uhhh, yeah.