The problem is, it\'s visually inconsistent, a bit of a mess, and too limited to reach a broad audience. If you don\'t fall into those demographics, you\'ll likely find plenty of issues with the film. It\'s a film best suited for fans of the original anime show, or young teen males with ADD on a sugar high. Meanwhile there\'s a whole secondary plot about a corruption investigation in the racing community, involving stock price manipulation (yes, that\'s right), and the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox) enlists Speed to help bring down some of the baddies. But to get into the race, he needs to first win the dreaded Casa Cristo cross-country race, which doomed his brother Rex. When Speed refuses, Royalton sets out to destroy the Racer family - but Speed (along with his trusty girlfriend Trixie, played by Christina Ricci) is determined to restore the good name of his family, by winning the Grand Prix. When he nearly breaks Rex\'s record at the Thunderhead race course, he gains the attention of Royalton (Roger Allam) who wants Speed to join his corporate racing family. After the seemingly tragic death of his brother Rex Racer, Speed Racer (Emil Hirsch) is determined to be the best race car driver out there. Just when it seemed that the trend of creating live-action film adaptations of animated television shows was starting to wane, along comes Speed Racer, the Wachowski Brothers\' attempt at bringing a classic anime to life.
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