OK, it'll disappear from theaters soon since it's not going to be a blockbuster...so who else endured this?

What a mess! Up until the film started I had high hopes for this as a fast paced, candy colored romp, but my enthusiasm disappeared very very quickly.

This is a kids movie no doubt. The humor is aimed squarely at kids...but none of the kids  at the screening I attended were laughing much. It's FINE that it's a kids' movie, that just fine but...a kid's movie lasting 2 hours and 10 minutes?? This movie needed to clock in at a lean 90 minutes, give or take an extra 7 minutes for credits.

And a SLOW paced 2.10 as well. What were the Warchowskis' thinking here?  Why in the world do you take what SHOULD have been a fast paced, simple, good guys Vs bad guys story, and saddle it with an incomprehensible plot about fixing races to fix stock prices?  My word, the exposition was silly, shoehorned in as heads zoomed back and forth around the screen...it was awful.

The visuals were great though, even if it got to be overload by the halfway point. After awhile it felt like I was being hammered by a Candyland game. What was especially frustrating was that FINALLY in the last 30 minutes, the movie came together. As Speed and Racer X had their quiet moment and then Speed replicates Rex's leaving...then onto the final race which was really exciting. There's a moment when it all slows down, with a series of voice overs as Speed realizes his place in life and racing and what he needs to do...that worked really well. BUT it took way too long to get there.

There were other good things, Michael Giacchino's blazing score, Susan Sarandon's hotness and the monkey. Monkeys are always good. But overall, the movie was an unfortunate mess.