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‘Speed Racer’ Condemns Franchise Dignity, But Delivers Sensorial Explosion

Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on May 9, 2008 - 12:12am

HollywoodChicago.com Oscarman rating: 2.5/5 CHICAGO – While Hollywood slapped “PG” on the hotly anticipated “Speed Racer” to line its pocketbooks with the widest hodgepodge of people (ahem: kids) everywhere, those same kids will leave the theater with that lollipop nearly sucked to the stick but then yanked away with confusion.

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