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Giveaway: Speed Racer: The Next Generation – The Beginning DVD
By Great White Snark | May 22, 2008
Just when I was about to turn in my fat guy pants, NRA card, and Creationism for Dummies guide and move to Canada… the Speed Racer movie bombed, thereby restoring my faith in America. I guess I’ll stick around for another couple of weeks.
You’re welcome, America.
It’s not that Speed Racer is a bad film. It’s just a bad film for people who get easily annoyed by soulless characters, a spotty-to-nonexistent plot, and about one hour too much of running time.
Kids love it though. So says the gleefulness of the tots who sat in front of me in the theater. Too bad Warner Brothers decided to market the movie only people with fully-developed powers of cognitive reasoning. You know… adults.
Anyway, I won’t make the same mistake: I’ve got a copy of Speed Racer: The Next Generation – The Beginning
Here’s the spiel:
The story builds on the adventures of the original series by focusing on Speed’s orphaned son as he juggles school life at the Racing Academy while uncovering secrets behind his father’s disappearance. The new chapter of Speed Racer utilizes a cutting-edge style of animation inspired by the original series.
Oh, and there’s a robot chimp. Total bonus.
All you have to do to enter to win the DVD is leave a comment on this post, indicating the cartoon that you most resent having been remade into a movie.
Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address in the “Mail” field. I’ll select the winners at random and announce them in an update to this post next Thursday, May 29.
UPDATE: Congrats to the winner, jtfmulder! Hopefully JTF will numb the brain of some hapless child with this video.
Topics: Cartoons, Contests | 14 Comments »
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 am
Beavis and Butthead.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 am
Garfield!!! That’s the worst cartoon-based movie ever!
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 am
Inspector Gadget might have to get my vote, though Aeon Flux pretty much sucked. But, hard to put Charlize below Broderick. Then again, neither of those movies involve Brendan Fraser, which have to come below just about anything, so maybe it’s a tie between George of the Jungle and Dudley Do-Right.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:22 am
Sure, what the hell, my nine-year-old loved the new movie, he’ll like this.
Drew
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
I have no idea who’s involved in it, but I shudder at the thought of the upcoming Thundercats movie.
Dolph Lundgren’s He-Man movie was god-awful too.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:22 pm
@Drew: Yes, but does your nine-year-old know how to follow directions?
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Hi, My husband and I both grew up watching the
“Speed Racer” cartoon show. Please enter me in this fun drawing. Many thanks,Cindi
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
@Cindi: Yes, but do you resent Speed Racer being made into a movie?
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
None of my chlildhood cartoons are remade into movies. :(
Please enter me!
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Despite the bad reviews, I’m still looking forward to seeing Speed Racer. My nephews are big fans of the cartoon series (thanks to me giving them videos). I know that they’re anxious to see it.
For what it’s worth, I was over at their house for dinner and they were watching Speed Racer: The Next Generation – The Beginning on TV while I ate.
As far as movies that butchered childhood memories, how about Thunderbirds?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I am going with the “Dudley Do-Right” movie! Thanks,Cindi
May 28th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Alvin and the Chipmunks. Looks like a cute movie.
May 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Er, that doesn’t sound like resentment to me, Ilissa. Unless you resent cuteness. Which wouldn’t be awful.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Aeon Flux!! OH GOD NO…PLEASE NO!!!! (what is it about Milla Jovoviche movies where they take a title of something and then make a movie totally unrelated in any way to the source material? We can all hope Azazel stick to the plot of the original porno film of the same name (and scene breakdown…crossing fingers…).
and He-Man was a horrible steaming pile, but lets be honest, it was made in the 80s before an action film could be taken seriously, and at least you got to look at a young Courteney Cox in skimpy 80s clothes being beat on by a still-hot Meg Foster Right people???